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[wisydude]

Hi,
I have a Lenovo 3000 C200 laptop with preinstalled XP Home OP. The install files are on a separate partition. I would like to us nLite to make an istall CD. The program asks for locating the windows install. I do not know where to locate it. Can someone help?
thanks
Andrew

[truk]

You can't get the install files off the computer. I believe it is legal, since you have a legal CD key and machine, to obtain them in other ways for the purpose of using nlite, but I will not tell you how. Sorry.

[carbon_unit]

You will need to locate an OEM XP cd to be able to use your Product Key from the COA sticker, Retail won't work.

[Stargate199]

I think the rescue and recovery software that shipped with the laptop will allow you to make a backup set of CDs or DVDs of the pre-install environment. nlite just needs the I386 folder so if you can find that on the backup CDs, you should be able to use nlite to make a custom install CD, HOWEVER, you made need to add the drivers for all the hardware and since the HDD is SATA (i think), and regular XP install CD will not be able to detect the HDD. You will need to provide the SATA driver on install. Since there is no floppy disk on laptops anymore, this may be difficult to do. You can search google for a solution. If the BIOS supports it, you can have the computer emulate an IDE interface for the hard drive and XP will see it, but you will not get the better speed of SATA. I know with vista that after you install, you can make a registry edit to re-enable SATA support and then install the SATA driver from intel. Do not know if the same holds true for XP.