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We don't support warez like "Reloaded"

we had a heck of a time with this one last time there were three different installers rolled into one driver.

and we needed testers with an audigy and X-Fi and a Live card to make sure finisher was installing correctly

we had like four people on it for a week... i Know you have an audigy we need a tester with an X-Fi and a Live now...

Excellent Question...

the short answer is that the mass storage drivers are slipstreamed into the installation media.
the packs are simply in a location that the windows setup can find.

Some Detail

there are three stages of setup ; Textmode, WinPE (Windows Preinstallation Environment), GUI

In Textmode only the OEM and slipstreamed drivers are available
(the drivers that are natively included with the MS Windows OEM disk)
the Textmode drivers are, and only need to be, the basic ones required to find the HDD.
so the files required for WinPE can be copied to the HDD.

first reboot takes us to WinPE stage which is where the main drivers are installed by setup.
so we pause the Setup program long enough to add the packs into setups search path.
then we allow setup to run and add the drivers.

all this being true we only slipstream the mass storage drivers
the only pack we need for textmode setup to complete successfully

but there is more...
mass storage drivers have two parts, a text mode driver, and a PnP driver
so mass storage must be slipstreamed for textmode and available to the WinPE stage to so the text mode driver can be upgraded to its PnP 32bit counterpart.

does that help?

I am not sure without you provideing us with its HWID...

I dont think so... but not a big deal if you give us the hwid and a link to the driver we will add it!

Welcome to DriverPacks and thanks for stopping by

I tried to get rid of my double post and they both disappeared... strange

i had a copy of what i typed on the clipboard though... ( i have been gotten before )
so it is out of order above sorry everybody...

Yes - actual folder and the files in it

Thanks so much for stopping by and saying such nice things.

Bâshrat the Sneaky and the team of people that work so hard, for free, to make DriverPacks work all like to hear kind words like yours.

Welcome to the forum and i wish you continued success. ;D

and i thought i was old
rats i have a turntable too,
i still am (sadly) lol

can i see your DPs_BASE.log please?

welcome to my world... 

you appreciate it and - i appreciate your contribution

Time will tell if it is popular...
like i said dont sink a bunch of time into it right away...
If it takes off i'll make it a feature - think of this as a prototype / market analysis tool

woo hoo... and way before sunday too

Re: I propose

It will ultimately make the most sense to bundle them in the same manner as the OEM's provide them.

i like the idea of seperation where it will not cause extra work to maintain the packs. we would not use such long file names though.

OK here is the short story...
your HDD is HWID PCI\VEN_1106&DEV_0571&SUBSYS_05711106 that is a VIA Bus Master IDE Controller

we have the driver that supports your disk included - - - actually i am surprized it is not detected by an OEM XP disk this is a generic controler.

I have seen issues before when people had a Generic card Reader Device connected
i wonder if the problem goes away if you disconect your printer?

I wonder if you create a 3rd party DriverPack for your printer if it goes away...? http://forum.driverpacks.net/viewtopic.php?id=279

you add your apps with WPI    Windows Post Installer

windows updates and such with nLite

i do this i copy xp to a folder like c:\XPSP3\
then i use nLite to integrate sp3
then i COPY c:\XPSP3\ to c:\XPRVM (never work on your original files always on a copy)
i use Ryan VM Integrator to add some updates and addons like IE7 -
(onepiece_windows_xp_post-sp3_updatepack and RED_XP_SP3_UpdatePack both have a decent update pack for use with RVM Integrator)
then i copy c:\XPRVM to c:\XPnLite (always a copy)
then i run nlite and set all my unattended settings so i don't get bothered with any silly questions (i hate that)
--- hint save your settings and leave nLite open at the create bootable iso page ---
then i Run DriverPacks
then i return to nLite and hit burn baby burn!

then i rename c:\XPnLite to c:\XP08-0729

Then i test my ISO right off the HDD in a Virtual Machine (VM) like VMWare or Virtual PC or Virtual Box
then i will either add wpi and retest or i will burn a CD/DVD and test again in VM (this time with my burned disk)

then i am ready for a live test on a machine.

the best guide in the world is at http://MSFN.ORG
http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.x … 73bcfbd02/
It has three sections Noob... intermediate... and advanced...
we all use it and refer people to it all the time -

you have shown me you can do quite well with a nudge so... there you go
we mostly cater to sys admins IT pros and other advanced users, but, since you are polite good humored and willing... 

most of the questions you have now are well covered at msfn - read the table of contents at least

As i said,
you are in the home stretch now!
as the pieces come together for you you may become hooked...
...like we are

Have fun