Chapter Summary

Troubleshooting a Windows XP Professional attended installation requires you to understand the process that installation follows. By pinpointing the failure's cause, you can then define a solution and carry it out. The common problems that take place include

• Media errors

• Insufficient hard disk space

• An unrecognized or failed CD-ROM drive

• Network access errors

• Hardware incompatibility

Unattended installations can fail because of problems with the switches used with either Winnt.exe or Winnt32.exe, as well as issues within answer files. Sysprep can experience problems if source and target computers vary significantly. RIS may have failures stemming from incompatibility between the RIS server and the RIS image.