Hi everyone. I'm new here and so far I've found this to be a great source of information, but I still have not found an answer to this problem. When I'm running my unattended XP Pro cd, it prompts me that since its an upgrade cd, it needs me to insert a cd with a previous version of Windows to qualify for the upgrade. Is there a way to copy the files from my Windows 2000 cd to my XP cd to get around this???

create a file on the root of C:

place a few characters in it, so it's size isn't 0 bytes

name it NTLDR with no extension

Thanks Radimus, will give that a try

hi Radimus,

been lookin for a solution for this for a while.

how do you get this file from the unattended install disc to the root of the partition in time for it to be detected (which seems very early in the process)?

is it possible using one of the $oem$ folders?

tnx.

you MIGHT be able to have it on a floppy...

Unattended is an administrative sort of procedure, and presupposes that you have all the corporate tools available. the most important one would be a corp version of the OS, which makes things MUCH simpler, like not needing activation and all that other bull.

Even small organizations can qualify for corp licenses... I think you only need like 10 licenses/computers