All,

Sorry for the 101 type question but I had a problem with my installation of
windows XP and had to install the system from the CD as apposed to a folder
(e:\disks\windowsXP\I386) witch I normally do.



The problem is I can't find an article on what Registry Keys I need to
modify, in order for windows to look for a I386 folder on the hard drive for
necessary drivers / installation files and not ask me to put the original
installation CD in to the CD Drive.



Thanks in advance.

CES

"CES" <None> wrote:

>Sorry for the 101 type question but I had a problem with my installation of
>windows XP and had to install the system from the CD as apposed to a folder
>(e:\disks\windowsXP\I386) witch I normally do.

>The problem is I can't find an article on what Registry Keys I need to
>modify, in order for windows to look for a I386 folder on the hard drive for
>necessary drivers / installation files and not ask me to put the original
>installation CD in to the CD Drive.

You already got good advice, so here's just a remark by the way.

I suspect the reason why you couldn't install from a folder is
that you renamed the i386 folder to some other name. The XP
installer doesn't seem to like that.

I'd be curious whether I hit the nail on the head and you indeed
renamed the folder. Please let us all know by replying to this
message, if you find the time.

Hans-Georg

Hello CES,
If you are running Winnt.exe and this is failing during setup the CD is not
the issue and it's very doubtful that this is setup.
All the files needed for setup are copied to temporary folders on the
local hard drives. Virtually all file copy problems during text mode setup
which is what this sounds are the result of RAM issues, hard drive issues,
overclocking,possibly DMA.
If the error occurred after the final reboot of of setup, then it may be
the registry key or if you are adding in additional drivers or possibly
some unattended settings. But if you are just running winnt.exe and not
doing anything special and the file copy errors occur after the first
reboot, the odds are that something in hardware has changed.
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
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| Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, I had a 2 Day problem with an
| Outlook Profile that got corrupted when I updated to Beta 2 of Office 2003
| ...
|
| Unfortunately that wasn't the problem I have always used the path
| e:\disk\i386 for my setup files, and then boot to an old DOS 6.1 disk (in
| order to have smart drive running) and run winnt.exe from the DOS prompt.
| This is the way I've setup every machine since NT 3.5 days, and I've never
| run into any problem's... until now. It's not the computer because I have
| setup this computer twice using this procedure, I used the same disk for
| both the hard drive (which failed on all 3 attempts) and CD-rom (work just
| fine first try).
|
| Basically the setup work fine copying the files to the c: drive but after
| the reboot/GUI Started, I would get a error something like "...XXX file
| required from the cd"? As I said I tried the install 3 times and got the
| same type of error message. Before the last attempt I did a full FDisk,
| reformatted each partition, did a full Scandisk on each partition and a
| complete Virus check of the boot record. But I still got the error..I just
| loaded 2 installs of Server 2003 with out any problem, so I'm pretty sure
| it's not something MSFT has changed but who knows.
| CES
|
|
|
| "Hans-Georg Michna" <hans-georgNoEmailPlease> wrote in message
| news:3fbb
| > "CES" <None> wrote:
| >
| > >Sorry for the 101 type question but I had a problem with my
installation
| of
| > >windows XP and had to install the system from the CD as apposed to a
| folder
| > >(e:\disks\windowsXP\I386) witch I normally do.
| >
| > >The problem is I can't find an article on what Registry Keys I need to
| > >modify, in order for windows to look for a I386 folder on the hard
drive
| for
| > >necessary drivers / installation files and not ask me to put the
original
| > >installation CD in to the CD Drive.
| >
| > You already got good advice, so here's just a remark by the way.
| >
| > I suspect the reason why you couldn't install from a folder is
| > that you renamed the i386 folder to some other name. The XP
| > installer doesn't seem to like that.
| >
| > I'd be curious whether I hit the nail on the head and you indeed
| > renamed the folder. Please let us all know by replying to this
| > message, if you find the time.
| >
| > Hans-Georg
| >
| > --
| > No mail, please.
|
|
|

"CES" <None> wrote:

>Unfortunately that wasn't the problem I have always used the path
>e:\disk\i386 for my setup files, and then boot to an old DOS 6.1 disk (in
>order to have smart drive running) and run winnt.exe from the DOS prompt.
>This is the way I've setup every machine since NT 3.5 days, and I've never
>run into any problem's... until now. ...

Thanks for your report. So it remains mysterious.

If you ever find the cause, please let us all know.

Hans-Georg

Just incase someone is reading this thred:
The new version of Tweak UI 2.10.0.0 has added this feature - My
Computer\Special Folders\Folder\Instalation Path -- This is a great new
addition their are a few addition vary usfell other tools.

CES