CD Burning Issues?

[enifstaht]

I have been working on a slipstreamed unattended cd for a few days now and I have the iso working perfectly on a virtual machine. However, when I burn the CD I have had multiple issues on the physical machine...

1. The first way I tried burning the cd was with cdrecord in linux, which led me to an ntfs.sys error on the second boot, which if I fixed using a repair console still resulted in an error using the cd.

2. The next way I tried buring the cd was with nero following instructions from numerous sites... setting the "no emulation" option, boot sectors to 4, and even tried both track-at-once and disk-at-once. All to no avail... these all led to bad checksum errors right before entering the gui install portion.

3. I then tried just burning the iso using nero which gets past the bad checksum problem but pops up with an lsass.exe error and sits on 39 minutes cycling through the "xp adverts"

I have wasted numerous cds and was wondering if anyone here could help... I can access the command prompt (using shift-f10) in the gui setup if there are any error logs you need. But I am thinking I am just buring the cd wrong somehow... any help is greatly appreciated... thanks in advance...

enifstaht

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as i was typing this a log popped up

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Error:

The signature for the Windows XP Professional Setup is invalid. The error code is 80096001.

A system-level error occurred while verifying the trust.

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Fatal Error:

Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error. The setup log files should contain more information.

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[Djé]

Sorry, i don't have an answer right now, but some other people are experiencing other troubles during install which may be related.

Would you mind posting in that thread with a link to here so we can keep a record of all those problems and maybe find the cause?

[enifstaht]

Thanks for your post Djé, but it looks like the guy on that post has solved his problem by manually copying those files over... I get through the entire file copying process, it just stops at the 39 min mark. I read that at this point during the install the raid/sata drivers are set up, so I removed the containing folder (the testing computer does not need any additional drivers) still with the same result ... lsass.exe erorr then fatal error about fifteen minutes later.

[Djé]

Yes, sorry, it looks like the other problem is different if the files are even not inside drivers.cab.

But for yours, I was just thinking that it may be lsass.exe or another file it uses when login to the system account which is not copied correctly during the text setup (or which is already corrupted on your CD), and then causes problems later.

We basically have the same opinion on the problem:

But I am thinking I am just buring the cd wrong somehow...

Except that I think you may not be responsible for it...

Also what about those setup log files

The setup log files should contain more information.

you're talking about in your first post? What do they say? Edited March 15, 2006 by Djé

[Lazy8]

Your VPC uses the host machine's system drivers, so I doubt it would spot the ntfs.sys error. Most of the time, though, these malfunctions are caused in the creation of your ISO image, by CD burning software, or poor quality media. The hardware itself may be faulty--have you tried burning it on another drive?

I experienced my most pernicious failures when using Nero to select boot options. CDIMAGE seems to be highly reliable. Then it wouldn't matter which program you use to burn your disk.

A single CD/RW got me through all my practice and test installs. It was the best dollar I ever spent on my PC.