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Exit, should have thought of that. Thanks for your help with this. Is PE 2.0 better ? could i use the same procedure with it ? is it worth me downloading it ? Where can i learn more about hta's and pe2 and other things you can do with winpe for unattended installs ? What would be a more efficient way of doing this, - using images ? Thanks again.

Gentlemen thankyou for your replies, I have the feeling I am out of my depth here i dont really know how i have managed to get this far. Anyway, i have made a batch file with the following in it, i boot into pe and run it, it works but i dont have wpeutil ? diskpart /s dp.txt FORMAT C: /fs:ntfs /q /V:syspart /y net use j: \\sitssdb2\xchange /user:domain1\administrator /user:domain\administrator blahblahblah start /wait j:windist\i386\winnt32.exe /syspart:c: /unattend:j:\windist\unattend.txt /s:j:\windist\i386 wpeutil reboot i'm pretty sure i have pe 1.6 but i dont know how to tell for sure ? it works with xp sp2 how do i include wpeutil should i try to get winpe2.0 and use that ? or do i build another disk and somehow include optional components ? Thanks for all your help

I am hoping someone can give me some help with this... I am using WinPE , unattend.txt and a network share to install windows XP. I successfully boot into winpe, Then I manually partition with diskpart commands as follows diskpart select disk 0 clean create partition primary size 4096 active assign letter c exit Then I do FORMAT C: /fs:ntfs /q /V:syspart /y I map a drive net use j: \\servername\sharename and start installation using the following command J:\windist\i386\winnt32.exe /syspart:c: /unattend:J:\windist\unattend.txt /s:j:\windist\i386 windows xp gui screen comes up saying preparing installation and copying installation files but after it finishes doing this it just returns to the Windows PE command prompt when i then type exit it reboots and precedes with text mode part of installation and continues until it has successfully installed windows xp professional Is there any way i can eliminate the need to manually type exit (to reboot the machine so it continues the installation) and is there an easy way to automate the diskpart commands ? can they be integrated into startnet.cmd ? I want to do this ideally without writing/using long vb scripts or overly complex batch files (which i can't do/cant understand) I realise there probably isn't and that I'm asking alot.. my unattend.txt file is as follows ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=blahblahblah EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx FullName="crash_n_burn" OrgName="it1" ComputerName=xpt1 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000809 UserLocale=00000809 InputLocale=0809:00000809 [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes Thanks.