sick and tired of hitting f6 to install raid drivers on XP install? check this

Tex

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=13173&hl=txtsetup.sif

Not as hard as it sounds and if your not using a winnt.sif to install unattended anyway you really should be. Every one I have shown has been blown away at how slick and easy this is.

Tex

Jake

Sick and tired of hitting F6? Hell, I'm sick and tired of reinstalling Windows period. I use Acronis True Image to image my OS drive once with all Windows updates applied and all my apps installed but no drivers updated, then once with the same setup but with drivers updated. So long as no hardware changes, if Windows needs a "reinstall" I just restore the image with everything installed and updated and I'm off and running in less than 10 minutes. If hardware changes, I just roll back to the image without the drivers updated (including no nFORCE chipset updates, so I can use the newest nFORCE package that's out) and I'm up and running in less than 20 minutes. Personally, I hate Symantec Ghost (do they still force you to reboot into a pseudo-DOS like environment in order to image the drive? Or can you finally image the drive within Windows without the need to shut down your apps and/or reboot?) but I LOVE Acronis True Image -- plus it's cheap as hell! Only like $50 and the thing just rocks! Solid, stable, never crashes, never gives me any problems, creates and burns emergency recovery boot CDs, can load restoration images off of tape drives, USB drives, DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, HDD, etc. Clone hard drives within Windows, clone hard drives from the emergency boot CDs... Just too damned handy.

Yeah, I sound like an advertisement, but I'm telling you, it's just a freakin' awesome program. Course you really ought to make a new image for computers using different chipsets, but big deal: go through a Windows install for each of your systems with a different chipset, install your apps, update Windows, image the drive, and you're all set for the future. Me loves it.