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Thanks. Reverting to the original winnt.sif file made the new disk go through the prompts as I expected. (The repair didn't fix the problem that I was hoping it would, a glitch in launching applications that's apparently due to some malware I've picked up.)

The install I wanted to repair is on C:. D: is where it went to install a new OS. I stopped it as it started because I didn't really know what it was doing and was hoping it wasn't eating my C: drive. Here's winnt.sf: [Data] AutoPartition=1 ;AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes [unattended] UnattendMode=ReadOnly ; a little less automated (Windows asks more questions) ;UnattendMode=ProvideDefaults ; a little more automated (Windows asks fewer questions) ExtendOemPartition=0 FileSystem=LeaveAlone OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore ;NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore ; This setting has NOTHING to do with how WFP treats system files Repartition=No TargetPath=\WINNT [GuiUnattended] ; asterisk means admin password is BLANK! AdminPassword=* OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 ; TimeZone=35 ; United States - East Coast ;TimeZone=145 ; Russia - Moscow [systemFileProtection] ; these no longer work post sp-1, here for illustration of how this used to work ;SFCDisable=ffffff9d ;SFCShowProgress=1 ;SFCQuota=1 [setupparams] ; found these two below in SETUPLOG.TXT at "SpSetupLoadParameter", some appear to be undocumented? ;optionaldirs= skipmissingfiles=yes ;UserExecute = ; It is generally unwise to use this, esp. with registry tweaks, as Windows is FAR from done with setup ;UserExecute = %systemroot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %systemroot%\Inf\YOURINF.inf [TapiLocation] ; ; United States - East Coast ; CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone ; ; Russia - Moscow ; ;CountryCode=7 ;Dialing=Pulse [RegionalSettings] ; ; United States - East Coast ; LanguageGroup=1 Language=00000409 ; ; Russia - Moscow ; ;LanguageGroup=5,1 ;SystemLocale=0419 ;UserLocale=0419 ;UserLocale_DefaultUser=0419 ;InputLocale=0409:00000409,0419:00000419 ;InputLocale_DefaultUser=0409:00000409,0419:00000419 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [GuiRunOnce] ; An application that requires the Windows Explorer shell to install, or that reboots, will not work here. ; To run an EXE file: ; start /wait %systemdrive%\myfile.exe ; To run an INF file: ;"%systemroot%\System32\rundll32.exe setupapi,InstallHinfSection DefaultInstall 132 %systemroot%\Inf\myfile.inf"

I tried to use my HFSLIPed WinXP sp2 disk to do a repair of an existing installation. It never stopped to display options; instead it started the installation on my second partition. There was a reference in another topic to winnt.sif? I used the "fixed" version; is that the culprit? Log files attached. hfsliplogs.zip