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$OEM$ Folder Detail

Example:If your windows install in (D:) Drive.$OEM$  every thing copied automatically in (D:) Drive root.

Once copied over, you can easily create batch commands to install and perform tasks using the %systemdrive% variable. For example: If Windows was installed to the D:\ drive, the environment variable "%systemdrive%" will resolve into D:\

Example Of $OEM$ Folders.

As you can see on the left, the $OEM$ folder stays parallel to the i386 folder, not inside it. Anything in $1 will be copied to the root of the patition where Windows is installed to (C:\ for example). See the examples below on how it all works:

In preparation, the layout is:
C:\XPCD\$OEM$\$1\Install\

When burned to CD (X:\ being the CD-ROM Drive letter), the layout is:
X:\$OEM$\$1\Install\

When the \$OEM$\$1\Install is copied over to the hard drive during Setup, the layout is:
C:\Install\

Makes sense? This is why in certain parts of the site you will find commands such as:
"start /wait %systemdrive%\install\MSN\msnmsgs.msi /qb" as this gives the same output as C:\Install\ when C:\ is the Windows drive.

$$ - Anything in here will be copied to the Windows folder, no matter what its called (Windows, WINNT, WindowsXP). By using this method you can create additional folders within $$ such as Resources followed by a sub-folder called Themes and place your visual styles in here. It will then be copied to C:\WINDOWS\Resources\Themes automatically when running Windows Setup.

Now that you know how all this works, understanding the rest should be easy enough:

$Docs - Documents and Settings
$Progs - Program Files
$$ - Windows Folder
$1 - Root of hard drive where Windows is installed to partition.
Textmode - Mass storage drivers and HAL files required during the text-mode portion of Setup.
drive_letter - Represents the root of a particular volume on the system (e.g., \$OEM$\C represents the C: drive) and contains any files that WinXP Setup should copy to this partition during installation.