But i have grown quite a fondness for opensource freeware of late

Im downloading it now! thanks for the tip!

Yep, I agree. Longhorn ntldr is a no-go license-wise. Which is unfortunate because of the functionality it has: a) increased memory limit; and b) automatic HAL detection and swap.

Wouldn't it be great if MS made the file legally downloadable for use with XP or whatever you wanted! But I doubt they'll show generosity in this way.

Regards,
Galapo.

We never thought they would cough up something like dpinst either

Perhaps good things will come to us in due time

in the mean time you could buy a server license everytime you install XP LOL

OfflineSysprep took care of this issue, so I would recommend using it instead of injecting all storage drivers into your image, you can only inject the one detected in your PE...by doing that you prevent driver from conflicting with one and other.

Note: I have discovered a bug with the 'Install only PE-detected non-IDE Mass Storage Device(s)' option. Only devices with HWIDs with 'PCI\' are injected. So HWIDs like 'SCSI\', 'GenNvRaidDisk', '*NVRAIDBUS' won't be injected with this method (well, until I can do a fix, which seems a bit unlikely at the moment).

So, work-around is to make use of user_settings.ini file and enable desired drivers. Eg:

[disable_drivers]
all=disable

[enable_drivers]
qnvrd325=enable
qnvraid=enable

Regards,
Galapo.

hello everyone
i see eveyone went harsh on me because of the illegal issues.

Look, we were all just pointing out some legal issues.
A harsh reply would have been closing the thread down and banning you for even mentioning it.
We did neither, so I guess we weren't really harsh on you

No harm done in my book.

Anyway, well, yes, even obtaining an illegal copy of an OS (or any other copyrighted material) can already be illegal in some countries - you don't have to install it (that would additionally be a breach of user license).

Not that I or anyone cares much about what you do (and you have to judge yourself about this being morally right or not), but there's a difference when you post about that in public (=we don't like that).
It may actually give others the impression it would be an a-ok thing to do, and we don't want to give that impression, alright?

As the misunderstanding has been cleared, let's get back to business then, shall we?

Please remove the link from your post for us...
Obviously there was a misunderstanding, sorry, We (I) don't mean to be harsh.
We have very few rules though and it SEEMED as if you had infringed on a big one .

I wish you the Best of Luck and our warm Greetings.

Welcome to DriverPacks!

Jeff

The only difference I could think is that some drivers like jmicron and nvidia add registry keys other than the one you mentionned.

[pnp_pci_addreg]
HKR, Parameters\PnpInterface, 5,                 0x00010001, 0x00000001

This one in particular if missing could cause BSOD specially with nVidia.

OfflineSysprep took care of this issue, so I would recommend using it instead of injecting all storage drivers into your image, you can only inject the one detected in your PE...by doing that you prevent driver from conflicting with one and other.

if these values are under HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\services then its been taken care of.
i injected the services that their names are locate under [sysprepcleanup] of sysprep inf file, in addition to the HKLM\system\CurrentControlSet\control\CriticalDeviceDatabase.
the registry keys for services that i injected are these
http://paste.uni.cc/19655
if there are other registry locations that contains critical keys that need to be injected that would be helpful.
thanks

This one in particular if missing could cause BSOD specially with nVidia.

OfflineSysprep took care of this issue, so I would recommend using it instead of injecting all storage drivers into your image, you can only inject the one detected in your PE...by doing that you prevent driver from conflicting with one and other.

so if im looking for an illegal software i would go for symantec restore anyware or acronis  universal restore. and save my self all the trouble.
i will clear things up.
-first i didn't know that using loghorn ntldr is an illegal issue, actually thanks for telling this to me, if that is the casee then i wont use it.
-second i don't use a pirated softwares nor a pirated os, the chinese ghost image is only for checking and testing only, with this ghost image i can check the drivers installed and the registry keys and copy them to another system ( even without installing the ghost itself ), so i don't think browsing an os files without installing it is an illegal issue.(if im wrong please say so).
my question was if i copied the registry keys( under CriticalDeviceDatabase and the needed services ) and the drivers from drivers folder to another system, will this be any difference than the already installed system on the ghost and will this cause any issue.
if this issue is discussed somewhere it would be good to refere me, i searched but i didn't find what is related to my issue.
hope it is clear now
thanks everyone

Wouldn't it be great if MS made the file legally downloadable for use with XP or whatever you wanted! But I doubt they'll show generosity in this way.

Regards,
Galapo.

Second thing is providing that file for DL.
Unless MS sanctioned you as an official publisher for their files, or they offered a special license for it (as they do with some files), you cannot offer the file.
That makes those Chinese websites illegal (which might be the reason why they host it in China, after all...), and I don't think we want files from illegal sources around here, either.

And yes, that Ghost img tops it all...

EDIT: I see mention of ghost images -- not good...

Regards,
Galapo.

Do your own work Use Legitimate Copies start with a clean source and read up on what is here.
What you seek it explained in great detail by several excellent members. But no one here will help you with pirated goods... period.

Not a good first impression when you ask for help with stolen software