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Post #106,897

6/22/03 3:39:44 PM

What do you know, I have just such a Windows XP CD here. It says "Includes Service Pack 1" on it.

I go to add new Windows components and add IIS. It wants the CD. The exact text is:

"Please insert the Compact Disc labeled 'Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 CD' into your ..."

I'm thinking this is the disk it wants.

Pop the disk in. Yep, that was it.

Thank you for calling.

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Post #106,902

by tablizer

6/22/03 5:19:34 PM

I only have "recovery" disk

I have a "recovery" disk, and it does not work for this. Again, I told the PC seller and they said it was not their problem, but MS's because they installed everything they were supposed to, they insist. Monday maybe I can talk them into inserting the disk if I bring in the unit. I just wonder what else does this too besides IIS.

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Post #106,907

by Andrew Grygus

6/22/03 6:49:09 PM

Well, there's your solution.

Be a good boy and trot right out and buy a proper retail package of Windows XP Pro. The version packaged "free" with a PC can't be expected to be a full equivalent now, can it? I hope you didn't really think it was.

Sarcasm sure is easy in this business.

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Post #106,910

by tablizer

6/22/03 8:19:58 PM

I figured it out

Be a good boy and trot right out and buy a proper retail package of Windows XP Pro. The version packaged "free" with a PC can't be expected to be a full equivalent

I am a poor man. I can't afford "real" things at this stage in my life. Fucking H-1B's took my job and send all my wages to India where their family lives high off the hog in a house that cost USD 8,000 and healthcare that costs $40 per month.

Anyhow, I figured it out. When it says "insert into drive D", it literally means drive D. The "recovery" disk will work only if you put it into drive D, not any other letter. I have 2 CD drives. Although there is a "browse" button to select a different drive, it ignores anything from other drives and just displays the same error message over and over again after drive selection. I suspect this is some kind of anti-piracy measure to keep people from downloading disk images to their hard-drive. Either that, some idiot newbie programmer hard-wired the drive letter into the program.

I have been using drive E as my CD-Rom drive. But drive D can also read CD's it turns out. It is labeled "DVD" so I had been using E instead for all my CD reading. (Why the vendor did not install a single all-in-one CD/DVD drive I don't know. Perhaps it was cheaper to have one for mostly DVD's, and one for CD read/write.)

I recommend Microsoft add to the message, "Any other drive letter cannot be used for this operation due to anti-piracy practices". Also, remove the "browse" button for drive selection. If it is useless to select other drives, then why have a button for it?

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Post #106,918

by Andrew Grygus

6/22/03 9:33:06 PM

Always been that way.

There are points in Windows95 and Windows 98 installs where you cannot override the registry setting for install source. You have to just blow on through and then figure out how to fix it afterwords.

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Post #106,920

by folkert

6/22/03 9:36:16 PM

SMOKWTD.

Bryce, I have been building machines for quite some time. Probably longer than you have been thinking OO is bad for your health.

I tell you one thing, the registry is both your best friend and your worst enemy.

I am betting your WINXP CD is not a recovery, it is a "compiled" CDROM made by the manufacturer.

I tell you, copy the D:\\i386 directory from the CD to C:\\Windows\\Options\\.

So you then have C:\\Windows\\Options\\I386

Then in your registry, search for the setup location (currently D:\\i386) then change it to C:\\Windows\\Options\\I386. (I do not have a WinXP machine @ home anymore, so I cannot give you the exact Reg-entry)

From then on you'll never have to insert the CD-ROM. except on a catastrophic.

Thank you for playing.

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Post #106,940

by tablizer

6/22/03 11:04:59 PM

Thanks for the advice

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Post #106,926

by orion

6/22/03 10:01:40 PM

You may be frelled then

because they may have a recovery disk that installs XP from a disk image instead of having the whole install CD. Some vendors do this, and it is legal, they still pay for the licence and sell you the recovery CD instead of the full package.

Your only other option for IIS is to download IIS 3.0 or 4.0 from the NT 4.0 Option Pack download point from Microsoft. [link|http://www.microsoft.com/ntserver/nts/downloads/recommended/NT4OptPk/default.asp|http://www.microsoft...OptPk/default.asp]

From what I heard, it can work with XP Pro, but I never tried it.

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