AndyJD

Yes I suspect it is a bug too Martin. Thanks for your suggestion. I will give it a try tomorrow hopefully

Managed to test this on a another computer, this time with just one hard drive. Still doesn't work though What does happen though if after I have let it run and fail, if I take the disk configuration section out, the autounattend file does execute. The failed attempt has created the three partitions as follows: Partition 1 - Vista (C:) Partition 2 - Programs (D:) Partition 3 - Unallocated There I can create the logical partition when running setup. It's like it doesn't want to create two logical partitions in an extended partition.

Well spotted! It's amazing how much you can look at something and you don't notice a problem. I am sure that was the problem. Unfortunately I can't test it now as I had to get my system up and running. By hook and by crook, I got it sorted. Just wish I had noticed that error you spotted. Thanks again

I am getting an error that Disk Configuration could not be parsed when using the Autounattend.xml file that was created using Windows System Image Manager. I have 2 x 250GB drives with two 125GB platters. I would like to partition as follows: Disk 0Partition 1 - Vista (C:) Partition 2 - Programs (D:) Partition 3 - Users (E:) [*]Disk 1 Partition 1 - Virtual (F:) Partition 2 - Images (G:) Here is the Autounattend.xml file that was created using Windows System Image Manager: <DiskConfiguration> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>1</Order> <Size>59618</Size> <Type>Primary</Type> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Extend>true</Extend> <Order>2</Order> <Type>Extended</Type> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Type>Logical</Type> <Size>59618</Size> <Order>3</Order> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>4</Order> <Type>Logical</Type> <Size>119237</Size> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Vista</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Programs</Label> <Letter>D</Letter> <Order>3</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Users</Label> <Letter>E</Letter> <Order>4</Order> <PartitionID>3</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <CreatePartitions> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Extend>true</Extend> <Order>1</Order> <Size>119237</Size> <Type>Primary</Type> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>2</Order> <Type>Extended</Type> </CreatePartition> <CreatePartition wcm:action="add"> <Order>3</Order> <Type>Logical</Type> </CreatePartition> </CreatePartitions> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Letter>F</Letter> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> <Label>Virtual</Label> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Letter>G</Letter> <Order>3</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> <Label>Images</Label> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>1</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> </DiskConfiguration> Has anbody any idea why this is failing?

You will find it at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...;DisplayLang=en

Software Assurance Vista Enterpris is avalable on the licensing site. I have downloaded it for our school already

Just wanted to say Hi after finally joining this forum after visiting this site for a long time. It is great to have a resource like this, so thanks for the help I have got and I am sure others too. It is appreciated

Thought I would post my sucess of using WAIK and in particular Windows System Image Manager to automate my install of Vista Ultimate, with the ProgramData and Users folders on different partitions. It' pretty much all automatic except for the 1st point below. It sure is a lot quicker I can't get 2 things to work at the moment: Still asks for network location (as mentioned earier in this topic by someone else SearchScopes I am sure I will figure it out though <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend"> <settings pass="windowsPE"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <DiskConfiguration> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <Disk wcm:action="add"> <ModifyPartitions> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Vista</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Label>Programs</Label> <Letter>D</Letter> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> <Extend>false</Extend> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Label>Games</Label> <Letter>E</Letter> <Order>3</Order> <PartitionID>3</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>Users</Label> <Letter>F</Letter> <Order>4</Order> <PartitionID>4</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> </Disk> </DiskConfiguration> <Display> <ColorDepth>32</ColorDepth> <HorizontalResolution>1280</HorizontalResolution> <RefreshRate>60</RefreshRate> <VerticalResolution>1024</VerticalResolution> </Display> <DynamicUpdate> <Enable>true</Enable> </DynamicUpdate> <ImageInstall> <OSImage> <InstallFrom> <Path>H:\install.wim</Path> </InstallFrom> <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> </InstallTo> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> <UserData> <ProductKey> <Key>ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-PQRST-UVWXY</Key> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> </ProductKey> <AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula> <FullName>My Name</FullName> <Organization>Home</Organization> </UserData> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <SetupUILanguage> <UILanguage>en-GB</UILanguage> </SetupUILanguage> <InputLocale>0809:00000809</InputLocale> <UILanguage>en-GB</UILanguage> <UserLocale>en-GB</UserLocale> <SystemLocale>en-GB</SystemLocale> <UILanguageFallback>en-GB</UILanguageFallback> </component> </settings> <settings pass="oobeSystem"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <FolderLocations> <ProfilesDirectory>F:\Users</ProfilesDirectory> <ProgramData>D:\ProgramData</ProgramData> </FolderLocations> <OOBE> <HideEULAPage>true</HideEULAPage> <NetworkLocation>Home</NetworkLocation> <ProtectYourPC>1</ProtectYourPC> <SkipUserOOBE>true</SkipUserOOBE> </OOBE> <UserAccounts> <LocalAccounts> <LocalAccount wcm:action="add"> <Password> <Value>??????????</Value> <PlainText>false</PlainText> </Password> <Description>Name 1</Description> <DisplayName>Name 1</DisplayName> <Group>Administrators</Group> <Name>Name 1</Name> </LocalAccount> <LocalAccount wcm:action="add"> <Password> <Value>??????????</Value> <PlainText>false</PlainText> </Password> <Description>Name 2</Description> <DisplayName>Name 2</DisplayName> <Name>Name 2</Name> <Group>Users</Group> </LocalAccount> </LocalAccounts> </UserAccounts> </component> </settings> <settings pass="specialize"> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-UnattendedJoin" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <Identification> <JoinWorkgroup>workgroup</JoinWorkgroup> </Identification> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <InputLocale>en-GB</InputLocale> <SystemLocale>en-GB</SystemLocale> <UILanguage>en-GB</UILanguage> <UILanguageFallback>en-GB</UILanguageFallback> <UserLocale>en-GB</UserLocale> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-IE-InternetExplorer" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <FavoritesList> <FavoriteItem wcm:action="add"> <FavTitle>MSFN - Where People Go To Know</FavTitle> <FavURL>http://www.msfn.org/</FavURL> <FavID>Favorite1</FavID> <FavOffLine>true</FavOffLine> </FavoriteItem> </FavoritesList> <FeedList> <FeedItem wcm:action="add"> <FeedKey>Feed1</FeedKey> <FeedURL>http://feeds.feedburner.com/msfn/DisI</FeedURL> <FeedTitle>MSFN - Frontpage News</FeedTitle> </FeedItem> </FeedList> <SearchScopes> <Scope wcm:action="add"> <ScopeDefault>true</ScopeDefault> <ScopeDisplayName>Google UK</ScopeDisplayName> <ScopeKey>Google UK</ScopeKey> <ScopeUrl>http://www.google.co.uk</ScopeUrl> </Scope> <Scope wcm:action="add"> <ScopeDisplayName>Google UK Images</ScopeDisplayName> <ScopeKey>Google UK Images</ScopeKey> <ScopeUrl>http://images.google.co.uk</ScopeUrl> </Scope> <Scope wcm:action="add"> <ScopeDisplayName>Windows Live</ScopeDisplayName> <ScopeKey>Windows Live</ScopeKey> <ScopeUrl>http://search.live.com</ScopeUrl> </Scope> </SearchScopes> <BlockPopups>yes</BlockPopups> <ShowInformationBar>true</ShowInformationBar> <Home_Page>about:blank</Home_Page> </component> <component name="Microsoft-Windows-Shell-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <ComputerName>My Computer Name</ComputerName> <RegisteredOrganization>Home</RegisteredOrganization> <RegisteredOwner>My Name</RegisteredOwner> <TimeZone>GMT Standard Time</TimeZone> </component> </settings> <cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim:h:/install.wim#Windows Vista ULTIMATE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" /> </unattend>