-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dell Reinstall CD (with a correction)

David,
    Since SP2 is already slipstreamed into your CD, you have no need (or 
ability) to create another one from it.  In other words, it's already ready 
already.   Hopefully, it's just being stubborn and we'll eventually figure 
out why.

    The folders you showed on that CD tell me that it may be nothing more 
than a homegrown SP2 install CD with the addition of the DOTNETFX AND Wacom 
tablet folders which were either placed there by Dell or by whomever else 
may have made that disk for you (or at least your system).  To confirm this, 
go into the OEM folder and see what's inside it.  I'm expecting a single 
text file called 'cmdlines.txt'.  If that file is all that's in there, open 
it and Copy/Paste the contents in your reply for my amusement.       :O)

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Morris" <dsmorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Dell Reinstall CD (with a correction)


> GMan and Don
>
> Thanks to you both, I have successfully changed my boot sequence! I now 
> have
> "CD-ROM Drive" first and "Onboard SATA Hard Drive" second. In truth, it 
> was
> fiddly, but not difficult. Getting in to the BIOS  was easy. As Don 
> pointed
> out, Dell tell you (very quickly in startup) F2 for BIOS setup and F12 for
> boot
>
> I thought about "Performing a Repair Installation" (what pompous language
> they use) when looking for a cure for my Wobbly Fonts - Outlook Express
> problem, which GMan then so ably solved. Now that I can start from my 
> CD-ROM
> drive, I would like to carry out a Repair, in the hope of curing several
> small niggling problems, including the infuriating popping up of Windows
> Installer. I see this is the subject of another recent thread. In my case,
> it pops up only when I type in Start > Search
>
> But to get back to Repair, where I have struck a problem, following the
> Guide by Doug Knox
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/helpandsupport/learnmore/tips/doug92.mspx?pf=true
> After accepting the Licensing Agreement, I am told:
> "Make sure that your current installation of Windows XP is selected in the
> box, and then press R to repair Windows XP".
>
> Windows XP is not mentioned, much less selected, in the box that I see. It
> contains:
>
> "C:    Partition 1 <F Drive <F>> [NTFS]
>
> D:    Partition 2 <G Drive <G>  [NTFS]
>
> Unknown disk
>
> (There is no disk in this Drive) "
>
> The first line, referring to C Drive (where my Windows installation is) is
> highlighted and (perhaps not surprisingly) pressing "R" has no effect
>
> GMan, I think that your original doubts about my Dell disk were partly
> well-founded, after all. While it will install Windows, it seems that it
> will not work, for the purposes of repair. I have read, somewhere, that an
> OEM disk cannot be used for repair and, for what it may be worth, the
> first-mentioned sibling folder of i386 was "$OEM$"
>
> It looks as though I will, after all, need to create an SP2 slipstreamed 
> CD
> and, unless you tell me to the contrary, I will try to locate your
> instructions about how to do this
>
> Regards
> David 


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