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I found out that this setting is kept in %systemroot%\bootstat.dat in the byte at offset +9. Is there anywhere a document that describes this bootstat.dat file ? Is there an interface (besides the system cpl) to manipulate this file ?

The bootcfg /timeout xx only changes the "time to display list of operating systems" . Anyone knows how to change the "time to display recovery options when needed" via a REG file or a command ?

Thanks for the info Gosh. Since I don't have access to WinPE I'm afraid I will have to find a method in DOS to: - get the size of the hard disk - based on that size determine what needs to be allocated to partition 1 and partition 2. For example partition 1 can be max 8Gb but shouldn't take more then 50% of the entire hard disk. I looked at several possibilities. But all of them (fdisk, gdisk, delpart, ...) didn't give me an easy way of doing that. Does anyone know about a Dos-based scriptable tool or method that would allow that ?

I've been setting up a network-based unattended XP installation and thanks to this forum I have found the answers to most of the problems I encountered. At this point I'm left with 1 open point. How to organise the partitions on the target PC automatically ? In short what happens: - I create a FAT32 16Gb partition on an empty hard disk - I start the unattended installation to that partition - at the end the installation has created 1 NTFS partition taking all disk space on the hard disk Is this due to the FileSystem=ConvertNTFS I have in the unattended.txt file ? If I want a C-partition of maximum 16Gb and all the other free disk space in the D-partition, do I have to create the partitions before I start the unattended setup ? Can I use diskpart for that ? My network boot runs a Windows 98 DOS environment. Thanks for any feedback, Luc.