Problem with SATA/RAID

[dvoon]

I've been using nlite since version 0.9 and it has made my job easier. But when SATA harddisks started to show up, things got a little tricky. In some motherboards, I successfully integrated the textmode SATA/RAID driver and the installation went fine. In some, I failed miserably (problem with the windows setup unable to copy the file viamraid.sys despite it detected the hard drive). I've been digging around MSFN forum and, though there are many other having the similar problem but the solutions provided there doesn't solve my problem. So I decided to run an experiment and post my problem here hopefully someone can help.

The hardware & software:

- MSI K8M Neo-V (VIA K8M800 8237 chipset) motherboard

- Windows Xp Home SP2

- nlite 1.3

The Experiment:

1) Using the original Windows XP Home SP2 CD

* This requires pressing of F6 at the start of installation and inserting the VIA SATA RAID driver floppy disk.

* The installation went FINE.

2) using nlite: xp Home SP2 + RyanVM Updatepack 2.1.9 + RyanVM WMP10 addon

* This also requires pressing F6 & the floppy disk.

* This also went FINE.

3) using nlite: with the result of 2) + other program addons + unattended + options + tweaks

* This requires pressing F6 & the floppy disk.

* Here's the problem: after formatting the HD, it tries to copy the files (viamraid.sys, etc.) from the floppy and fails.

In 3), I purposely left out the driver integration and left all components untouched, so to maintain the state almost similar to that of 2) in which the beginning of the installation should behave fine. But why it doesn't work? Is there anything I've done in unattended/options/tweaks affected the setup reading the drivers from the floppy?

Please help.

[Main]
Env = 1.3 - 2.0.50727.42.Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2
Target = Windows XP Home Edition SP:2 - 5.1.2600.2180 - English (United States)

[Tasks]
Unattended Setup
Hotfixes and Update Packs
Tweaks
Options

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
ClipBook Viewer
Internet Games
;# Keyboards #
Albanian keyboard
Arabic (101) keyboard
Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard
Arabic (102) keyboard
Armenian Eastern keyboard
Armenian Western keyboard
Azeri Cyrillic keyboard
Azeri Latin keyboard
Belarusian keyboard
Belgian (Comma) keyboard
Belgian (Period) keyboard
Belgian French keyboard
Bengali (Inscript) keyboard
Bengali keyboard
Bosnian keyboard
Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard
Bulgarian keyboard
Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard
Canadian French keyboard
Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard
Croatian keyboard
Czech (QWERTY) keyboard
Czech keyboard
Czech Programmers keyboard
Danish keyboard
Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard
Divehi Phonetic keyboard
Divehi Typewriter keyboard
Dutch keyboard
Estonian keyboard
Faeroese keyboard
Farsi keyboard
Finnish keyboard
Finnish with Sami keyboard
French keyboard
FYRO Macedonian keyboard
Gaelic keyboard
Georgian keyboard
German (IBM) keyboard
German keyboard
Greek (220) keyboard
Greek (220) Latin keyboard
Greek (319) keyboard
Greek (319) Latin keyboard
Greek keyboard
Greek Latin keyboard
Greek Polytonic keyboard
Gujarati keyboard
Hebrew keyboard
Hindi Traditional keyboard
Hungarian 101-key keyboard
Hungarian keyboard
Icelandic keyboard
Irish keyboard
Italian (142) keyboard
Italian keyboard
Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard
Japanese keyboard
Kannada keyboard
Kazakh keyboard
Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard
Korean keyboard
Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard
Latin American keyboard
Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard
Latvian keyboard
Lithuanian IBM keyboard
Lithuanian keyboard
Malayalam keyboard
Maltese 47-key keyboard
Maltese 48-key keyboard
Maori keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Norwegian with Sami keyboard
Polish (214) keyboard
Polish (Programmers) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard
Portuguese keyboard
Punjabi keyboard
Romanian keyboard
Russian (Typewriter) keyboard
Russian keyboard
Sami Extended Finland-Sweden keyboard
Sami Extended Norway keyboard
Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard
Serbian (Latin) keyboard
Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard
Slovak keyboard
Slovenian keyboard
Spanish keyboard
Spanish Variation keyboard
Swedish keyboard
Swedish with Sami keyboard
Swiss French keyboard
Swiss German keyboard
Syriac keyboard
Syriac Phonetic keyboard
Tamil keyboard
Tatar keyboard
Telugu keyboard
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Kedmanee keyboard
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Pattachote keyboard
Turkish F keyboard
Turkish Q keyboard
Ukrainian keyboard
United Kingdom Extended keyboard
United Kingdom keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
Urdu keyboard
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard
Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard
Vietnamese keyboard
;# Languages #
;Arabic
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (U.A.E.)
Arabic (Yemen)
Divehi (Maldives)
Syriac (Syria)
Urdu
;Baltic
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
;Central Europe
Albanian
Bosnian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Croatian
Croatian (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian (Latin)
Serbian (Latin, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Slovak
Slovenian
;Cyrillic
Azeri (Cyrillic)
Belarusian
Bulgarian
FYRO Macedonian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
Mongolian (Mongolia)
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Tatar
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
;Georgian
Georgian
;Greek
Greek
;Hebrew
Hebrew
;Indic
Bengali (India)
Gujarati (India)
Hindi
Kannada (India)
Konkani
Malayalam (India)
Marathi
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;# Multimedia #
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
;# Network #
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Information Services (IIS)
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
Outlook Express
TCP/IP Version 6
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
Administrative Templates
Blaster/Nachi removal tool
Document Templates
DR Watson
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Manual Install and Upgrade
Search Assistant
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Tour
;# Services #
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Indexing Service
Messenger
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System Restore Service
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Volume Shadow Copy
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #
Compat01
Compat02
Compat03
Compat06
Compat14

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe
ntprint.inf

[RemoveFiles]
clock.avi

[Options]
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "WINDOWS"
temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
AdvTweaks

[Patches]
TcpIp = 10
UsbPoll = 125
DoSFC

[Services2]
RDSessMgr,4
wuauserv,4
ScardSvr,3
RasAuto,3
RasMan,3
RemoteAccess,3
LanmanServer,3

[Tweaks]
Boot and Shutdown-Numlock-On
Explorer-Add 'Command Prompt' to folder context menu
Explorer-Classic Control Panel
Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
Explorer-Show Statusbar in all windows
Explorer-Show the full path in the Title Bar
Explorer-Use small icons in Explorer bar
Internet Explorer-Disable Market Place bookmark
Internet Explorer-Disable Media Player 6.4 created bookmarks
Internet Explorer-Disable Password-Caching
Internet Explorer-Keep IE URL-History for-0 Days
Internet Explorer-Set Homepage-about:blank
Internet Explorer-Set popup-blocker to high
My Computer-Remove Shared Documents
Network-Disable administrative shares
Network-Disable automatic search for network folders and printers
Network-Disable Simple File Sharing
Privacy-Disable Driver Update Internet prompt
Privacy-Remove Alexa
Security-Disable Windows Script Host (WSH)
Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search
Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults
Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut
Start Menu-Remove Windows Update shortcut
Windows Media Player-Disable auto-add music to library
Windows Media Player-Disable scripting commands
Windows Media Player-Disable silent acqusition
Windows Media Player-Disable starting with Media Guide
Windows Media Player-Enhanced privacy settings
Windows Media Player-No visualization
Windows Media Player-Remove all context menu entries

[Unattended]
ComputerType = Default
HibernationNo
CustomLocales
Resolution = 1024x768
BitsPerPel = 32 bit (True Color)
DisableSRestore
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
RestorePointLife = 30
DefaultStartPanelOff
DesktopTheme = Default||
AutoUpdates = 4
AutoUDay = 5
AutoUHour = 15
ProgFilesPath = "C:\Program Files"

[GuiRunOnce]

[Drivers]

[Hotfixes]
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\7-Zip.rar
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\AVG_FreeAntivirus.rar
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\CCleaner.rar
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\Firefox.rar
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\FoxitPDFReader.rar
D:\archives\_os & systems\winxp service pack\nlite\addons\ImgBurn.rar

[Fernando 1]

The problem is the combination of "Unattended Install" with the F6/floppy textmode driver installation method. Windows Setup doesn't find the floppy drivers, if you do an unattended install without intagrating the textmode drivers.

Solution: Either don't use the unattended install option or integrate the VIA SataRaid drivers by using nLite. In the latter case don't hit F6 during XP Setup!