Caveat: This is a statement of my experience in attempting to build and use a rescue disk, it is not a complaint to anybody about anybody or anything. In posting this I am hopeful to receive some pointers on where next, and if the question and answer help someone else having a similar experience down the road, all the better.

I was able, following the instructions provided, to build what the PE Build Version 3.1.10a declared a successful ISO image. I burned the related ISO to a CD and set the BIOS on the affected PC to look to the CD first. It booted and started using that disk but halted at a window (screen shot referenced below) I wasn't prepared for asking for something I did not have and think I may not be able to get.



Also available as a PDF at http://members.cox.net/dwpenn/disk_needed.pdf

Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be most welcome. Thanks, Dean

Either it's looking for a file, or the service pack marker file is not in the root directory.

I had a similar effect with sp3, missing a file. Try building cmdcons (recovery console) from your source, and see if it identifies it.

Which source (CD) did you use?

Was it slipstreamed with Service Pack 1 or Service Pack 2 or Service Pack 3?

See the other thread about slipstreaming:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=23211

The error is usually caused by a missing "ident" or "tag file" in the ROOT of the build, see this seemingly unrelated thread for some details:
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16381
http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...16381&st=18

Problem is to find out WHY the "tag file" is missing.

jaclaz

Hope you did not use a Dell OEM XP CD as the source. Everyone who tries to use one goes through a lot of pain to get it working as the source.

If your source was XP + SP3 then does it should contain the following directories / files:

I386\
win51
win51ip
WIN51IP.SP2
win51ip.SP3

The source is always pointed at the directory that contains i386 not i386. These files:

win51
win51ip

should be in the root of the built iso / CD plus one of WIN51IP.SP2 or win51ip.SP3 depending on which service pack you slipstreamed.

Just to be picky , if it was XP Professional, but the posted screenshot says Home, then files are Win51ic instead of Win51ip, as specified in the given link.

jaclaz

Wonder how MS came up with c as a suffix for home?

In Italian "Home" is "casa", since they do like robbing Italian (as per "Vista") maybe it was an initial atttempt.

Still wondering who/how/what/where BOB was conceived :
http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html

At least Military Intelligence and Government Agencies, after several years, are required to declassify secret files and make them available to public....

jaclaz