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its not a flaw... it is a known limit lol 

If you work for IBM they call that a feature ROFL

without being able to reproduce your process myself
(you seem reluctant to reveal your steps to duplcate this issue - i have asked)

there is not much chance I nor anyone else will be able to help...

Please read the tutorial (in my signature) and some of the other topics in teh FAQ forum and support forums.

These types of questions are well documented already...

the Short story is
- the 400 meg of packs are extracted takes 3~4 min and results in about 2gig of drivers
- then the HWIDS in the machine are used by setup which chooses the best one. but obviously it takes additional time to compare local hardware to 2 gig of drivers
- after setup the files are deleted (when windows installs a driver it copys it to windows so they are not needed anymore)

basic install questions are best answered at MSFN not here
We will be glad to answer advanced driver questions or questions related to missing drivers. or problems with DriverPacks BASE or the DriverPacks.
the mechanics of it we expect you to be aware of already

IE if it is not covered in this manual then it is a fair question. http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/
conversely if it is covered in that manual then it is not an appropriate question

Welcome and have a great day.

http://www.ss64.com/nt/set.html

pertinent exerpt from above link...

Changes made using the SET command are NOT permanent, they apply to the current CMD prompt only and remain only until the CMD window is closed.
To permanently change a variable at the command line use SetX
or in the GUI - Control Panel, System, Environment, System/User Variables

Changing a variable permanently with SetX will not affect any CMD prompt that is already open.
Only new CMD prompts will get the new setting.

You can of course use SetX in conjunction with SET to change both at the same time, but neither SET or SetX will affect other CMD sessions that are already running. When you think about it - this is a good thing.

It is also possible (although undocumented) to add permanent env variables to the registry [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment]
(using REGEDIT)

System Environment variables can also be found in [HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment]

Have a great day M8

you are only presented the rest of the screens if you select a valid location.
If you do not select a valid location DriverPacks BASE is unable to determine which screens will need to be displayed next and it will display NONE except the updates.

IE If there is no platform then there are simply no choices for you to make!
All of the other screens depend on your platform and location selection.
If you don't select a valid platform and location then the only thing available for you to do is check for updates!

This is by design (IE the program can not read your mind)

PS this is why the select platform and location screen is one of the first
- the rest of the screens depend on those selections no (valid) selections no screens

PSS Cross posting is considered bad manners!
this was also already answered politely in your other post ! (did you read it)
http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=3565

You failed to follow the directions at the bottom of the location page...
- "Disc: the directory that contains the I386 directory." -
(Not the I386 folder itself...) We call this user error.

Those entries are created by DriverPacks BASE automaticaly...

Um... mass storage is unzipped for M2... so the files can be cabbed and integrated...

please try as Helmi suggested and verify the MD5 on the mass pack...

and disable QSC or delete the QSC folder or both - please report the result afterwards!

Excellent details for a first post Well Done!

Hey we forgot Bâshrat the Sneaky!

Well I hope Muiz does not read this ...

last time i went trolling for stats for Fuel... Why I chose not to support Vista.
I landed at several universities and google (at the time google still published that info).
- I choose four that vista showed up on.

http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic. … 523#p10523

There were more users browsing the internet on Win98 than Vista....
4% of the hits was for Windows 98... Twice as many as Vista at 1.9%

It's still not doing very well! http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2009/January/os.php
(wow 98 still had 529,387 users)

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp
2008           WinXP  W2000  Win98   Vista     W2003   Linux   Mac
December   71.4%  1.7%     0.1%   15.6%    1.7%     3.8%   5.3%

One thing is clear MS Windows accounts for 90% of internet browsing hits.

If something works well (is quality) then it will become and remain popular. No amount of marketing will change this.
I love the Mac comercial where the MS guy has two stacks of money. One to fix Vista and one to market it.
The Mac guys says "That is not enough money to fix Vista" and the MS guy says
"yeah your right" and moves the repair money to the marketing stack! - LOL -
So True! They could have fixed it for the money they spent to try to convince us it was not junk!
(by this i mean if Vista were transparent to older Apps then business' would have adopted it, and a larger share of end users)

I expect that Windows 7 has the potential to either become like Windows Win2k  (Released with 64,000 known bugs) or
to become the next XP / 98se... Given MS's new trend to produce a quality product, as we have evidenced with the XP SP3 release.
I expect that W7 wil be the product that we can recomend to clients with confidence. (is it just coincedence that quality became important when Bill left)

If we take it as a Given that W7 will be like 98/XP.
Win 98 survived another five years after the release of XP.
We can then project that XP will survive until five years after the release of W7. 2009 + 5 = 2014.
(amazing how I just arrived at the same year as the crititcal update cutoff suggested by MS)

Jeff

they are removed by the finisher...
if the finisher does not run then they are not deleted...

you tested it... - i don't think so...

IE you filled the drive to it's "full capacity" with files?

perhaps you should investigate ADS as a possable leak...

many defrag programs will show the MFT, like O&O defrag for example

the MFT is the equivalent of the old File Allocation Tables (FAT)...
Master File Table (MFT) can be thought of as the table of contents for the file system
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS

the finisher is used to install control panels and other Setup.exe programs that certain programs require.
My favorite example of this is the ATI Control panel...
It also cleans up all of the uneeded files as you already know.
it uses the autoit commands dirRemove() and fileDelete() to do so, these commands are not different than the DOS commands RD and DEL. and have the same "fit, form and feel" (they are almost identical, in fact they may actually be just a wrapper for them)

I think it is important to note here that as your Disc fills up the MFT space will be de-allocated for use.
The MFT is "reserved" which is totaly different than allocated (or used). if the space is needed it will be relinquished The MFT space will be "given back" (all except what is absolutely neccessary) IF it is needed

Helmi is right you need not concern yourself with this, it is not a problem.