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powerup
I have tried nLiting my Windows XP SP2 with RyanVM's pack about 7-8 times. But in every disc and in every version some files always cause the problem. I have read nLite's guide. I even tried downloading the nLite setup file many times if the copy I had were corrupt but futile. I can't figure out what went wrong. Please help me!!!
nuhi
Is your Windows English or some other language?
And name at least 2-3 files which are reported corrupted.
dexter.inside
I'd say the most probable cause would be random memory corruption.
NOTS3W
I encountered corrupt files everytime I tried to slipstream a Dell pre-SP1 Reinstallation disk. Usually, nLite would claim to remove the existing hotfixes (there were a few) and reported successfully slipstreaming everything else (SP2, updates, tweaks) but the installation would always fail on a corrupted usbehci.sys file. I tried slipstreaming just SP1 and the installation failed on a corrupted vga.sys. I was determined to figure out the problem until I discovered that Dell would send me a replacement disk which arrived in one day with SP2 already integrated. Since then, it's been smooth sailing although I still have other issues with tweaks that don't take.

If you are using an OEM disk, you might try a retail disk or get a replacement that might work better.

Just my 2 cents.

Ray
nuhi
Then your old CD could be failing, but I don't like those already-stuffed-with-fixes installations anyway, unpredictable.

You are free to report which tweaks didn't take.
ricktendo64
I can name 1 corrupt file I keep getting nuhi --> dbghelp.dll... Ever since nLite 1.3 RC2 I been getting this

And YES I am using a XP Pro Corp English US
nuhi
3 persons replying...I hope it's the same thing.

Anyway all of you first try on the clean installation files again but this time without ANY addons or hotfixes.
I'm suspecting PE headers in the addons or hotfixes. Unless it's the ISO engine...
NOTS3W
Nuhi,

Here are the tweaks that didn't take:

No small icons on Start Menu
No Quick Launch (actually, I think default is no Quick Launch and nLite doesn't provide for turning it on)
No display contents of system folders
Links is not removed from IE Favorites
Marketplace is not removed from IE Favorites
Network Connections appear as link on Start Menu (told nLite to not display it)
Printers and Faxes appear as link on Start Menu (told nLite to not display it)

I built a new clean ISO this morning and let it install while I was at work.

I did include the IE7 Addon. Could that change the IE things back after nLite first removes them?

My experience with the original disk was that if I start with the pre-SP1 CD and DON'T slipstream anything, it works fine. Kinda pointless since I end up right back where I started, though, with a pre-SP1 installation. If I slipstream SP1 onto the disk, nLite sees the hotfixes, removes them, and appears to run fine through the ISO. But the installation fails saying that VGA.SYS is corrupted. If I start over and slipstream SP2, usbehci.sys is corrupted. I tried several times with new copies of SP1 and SP2 but no go. Once I got the new CD with SP2 already applied, I haven't bothered with the original disk. All is well, except as noted above. These are all Dell CDs. As much as I hate to accept defeat, I have to believe that there's SOMETHING about the Dell CD that nLite/SP1/SP2 isn't compatible with. (FWIW, AutoStreamer wouldn't even recognize that the original disk had an OS on it. nLite did better than that.)

If you want me to slipstream SP2 onto the original disk's files and send you something out of the compilation, let me know.

Thanks. And thanks for a very useful nLite.

Ray
powerup
I am using XP SP2 english version with RyanVM 2.1.7 update pack.
Files that are reported to be corrupt:-
amdk6.sys,ntoskrnl.exe and many
about 200 files are reported to be corrupt!
And also I tried burning with Nero 7 with nLite and many more but fruitless!
Please help!
I can attach my last session.ini
dzjepp
I had a problem with corrupt files on my 5yr old computer. The type of files you mentioned (last person). Turns out the problem was either my computer ram was going south, or my burner was. I have a new computer that this problem does not happen on.
powerup
I even tried it on my friends computer which is bought 2 days before I started this topic. I had waited for posting the topic for testing it on a new system.
rehbar
Simply install your XP from new CD-ROM drive. It is mostly happen when you are installing through old CD-ROM/DVD-ROM.
If your problem remain their then try to search in sorce cd that if there is file presents?
powerup
I looked for those files in the CD-ROM and I found them there.
newsposter
Rick, I've seen people delete dbghelp.dll thinking that it's part of an imaging program, "Windows Image Helper".

In reality, dbghelp.dll is an essential part of the runtime debugger. Most, if not all executeables will load but fail to start if this system DLL is missing or has been deleted.

Lots of information on dbghelp.dll on msft and msdn. There are also as many versions of dbghelp.dll as there are kinds of SDK releases. The msft debugging engine in XP and Server OS is an unholy mess and pretty much always has been.

Were I you, I'd have a close look at the source that I'm trying to nlite from just to make sure that the original, RTM, or SP1/SP2 version of dbghelp.dll is there. You might have to go back to the original distro disks to make sure of an unmodified source.

If this isn't your problem (a deleted or modified dbghelp.dll in your pre-nlite source), then you might well have with a physical corruption problem with your pre-nlite source image, be it an ISO or a 'real' CD/DVD.
Marsianin
QUOTE (powerup @ May 2 2007, 10:37 AM) *
I am using XP SP2 english version with RyanVM 2.1.7 update pack.
Files that are reported to be corrupt:-
amdk6.sys,ntoskrnl.exe and many
about 200 files are reported to be corrupt!
And also I tried burning with Nero 7 with nLite and many more but fruitless!
Please help!
I can attach my last session.ini

I have the same problem. All missing files (like amdk7, amdk6 etc.) are in driver.cab. I don't know why nLite (1.3.0.4) repacks it when this option is disabled but when it packs driver.cab back it lost about 200 files.
What is this?

P.S. Tried to integrate updates to WinXP english installation with SP2 integrated.
ricktendo64
No newsposter, my dbghelp.dll is fine before nLite and corrupt ONLY after... I always have to copy it to the desktop before nLite then after im done nLite I copy it back to the i386 folder (If I dont do this MPlayer 11 will not get installed correctly). This is how I solve my prob
rehbar
Try this it will resolve your problem.
1- Delete your partation where windows installed by winxp.
2- Clean install Windows XP SP2.
3- Install all your required drivers.
4- Install netframwork 2 or 3.
5- Install lite v3.0
6- Copy your source xp disk in to HD.
7- Now customize it and make iso by lite.
8- Burn it with nero.
9- Test it .

cool.gifI 100% sure it will resolve your problem. welcome.gif
powerup
QUOTE (rehbar @ May 7 2007, 11:41 AM) *
Try this it will resolve your problem.
1- Delete your partation where windows installed by winxp.
2- Clean install Windows XP SP2.
3- Install all your required drivers.
4- Install netframwork 2 or 3.
5- Install lite v3.0
6- Copy your source xp disk in to HD.
7- Now customize it and make iso by lite.
8- Burn it with nero.
9- Test it .

cool.gifI 100% sure it will resolve your problem. welcome.gif

Thanks for the solution but it didn't resolve the problem.
rehbar
then you have not disable windows file proction by nlite. or your cd-burner become week or you burn over 700MB.
powerup
QUOTE (rehbar @ May 9 2007, 10:26 PM) *
then you have not disable windows file proction by nlite. or your cd-burner become week or you burn over 700MB.


I tried enabling and disabling SFC but it won't help it!
And also I tested it today on my friends brand new HP PC with Sony DVD-Writer. But I came out fruitless.
And also I "USE" nLite! So my ISO size is 450-500 MB's in size!!!!!!
powerup
Hello no reply yet! mad.gif mad.gif
Can't anybody help me?
TwoJ
It seems like one of those days where everything doesn't work
For some reason IE7 doesn't want to take my msfn username/password - thank goodness there is firefox!

Anyhow - i can relate - on my labtop a toshiba satellite a20 i am having the same issues, i googled the amdk6.sys file and found this thread

I was also having problems with mfc40u.dll so it seem weird that this is happening, i have had problems with memory before but i find it strange that it is only happening i think when using nlite or RVM integrator.

i am going to try and do the same procedure from another computer and see what the results are.

It's one of those problems that is hard to track down exactly where the error is getting introduced.

I'll try to update with any fresh info
powerup
finally a reply! I had stopped checking this thread for some time now and when i saw there was a reply!
Well does anybody know if the issue is fixed?
TwoJ
Getting caught up with old posts

OK - i forget which forum i've posted to with this problem but i think i've gotten it
It seems that within nlite & the rvmintegrator there is a process of repacking the drivers.cab file, while it seems that most errors are coming from a corrupt drivers.cab file i don't think it is solely that.
I think there is also missing and / or corrupt files when installing discs made with nlite and the rvm integrator that are not part of the drivers cab file.

What i believe it is on my computer is that before i had 2 sticks of memory, 1 - 256MB & 1 - 1GB, different companies as well, i removed the 256MB stick and i belive the problems have disappeared.
I recall before seeing something about mismatched memory causing problems but it was hard to believe that JUST these 2 programs would be having problems.

Anyhow if someone else finds this info helpful let others know
skrothu
i was getting a lot os corrupt files...

i tried with 2 diferent computers... changed with another windows xp cd, other isos images...

but these 2 computers were dual cores... a core2duo and a pentium D...

and i put the nlite process to work with only one processor... and it works fine!!! no more corrupt files...

then, i test with others cds, and works fine too...

and i tested with a single core processor, and works fine...

i was getting mad... i've done some nlite customization cds before, and now it wasn't working... but now solved, here...

sorry about english...

hope have helped people
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