When triyng to create a RIS image for our newly received Optiplex 755 pc’sThe Windows XP Professional Setup stops with this error: “Setup was unable to format the partition……”  

We have GX620 and GX280 RIS images running without these problem.  

To resolve this problem, I have tried the following: 

1. I created a Textmode folder in $OEM$ folder and placed all the Intel Matrix Drivers in the folder.
   
2. I have verified that the txtsetup.oem file contains the following line in correct format:
   
   [Disks]
   disk1 = "Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver", iaStor.sys, \
   
3. Then added these two lines in the .sif file in the …\i386\templates folder
   
   [MassStorageDrivers]
   "Intel(R) ICH8R/ICH9R SATA RAID Controller" = "OEM"
   
   [OEMBootFiles]
   iastor.inf
   iastor.cat
   iastor.sys
   Txtsetup.oem 

I have tried this procedure with OptiPlex 755 System BIOS A9 and the new A10

I have tried to replace the newest Intel Matrix Drivers with the drivers provided on the Dell CD

I have tried with all 3 SATA operation BIOS options (with the appropriate drivers)   

net stop binlsvc and net start binlsvc has been executed every time

Can anybody help us with this issue?    

Our System ConfigurationOPTIPLEX 755 DT : 80 PLUS PSU INTEL COREMEMORY : 2048MB (2X1024MB) 800MHZ DDR2 DHARD DRIVE : 160GB (7200RPM) SERIAL ATAIOPTICAL DRIVE : 16X DVD-ROM DRIVE