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hey. maybe this will help. After I posted my question, and read yours, i finally found what appears to be the "official" story... its in file ref.chm from the deploy.cab.... I pasted the info about autopartion below. Interesting note: the only value allowed is 1. (I would imagine setting it to 0 is the same as not specifying?) Anyway here is how I solved my problem -- which was, I wanted to do an unattended install to the second partition: I got rid of the AutoPartition line (commented it out), and called winnt32.exe with a /tempdrive:D: Strangely, there appears to be no option to force an unattended install to allow the user to pick a partition. ------------------------------------------- AutoPartition Value: 1 Installs Windows to the first available partition that has adequate space for a Windows installation and does not already contain an installed version of Windows. Either omit the AutoPartition entry from your answer file or set the value of AutoPartition to 1. If AutoPartition = 1, the /tempdrive command-line option of Winnt32.exe is ignored. If you do not set the value, text-mode Setup installs Windows on the partition where $WIN_NT$.~LS is located.

I want XP to stop and allow me to select the partition... I made a Fullunattended answer file with SetupMgr, then edited my unattend.txt so that it says: Autopartition=0 (I also tried Autopartition="0") But it still just picks the first partition (i want to use the second partition) without asking! Am I hallucinating? Thanks!