duncan-1gp

OK, first of all, tried without syspart and that doesn't work. Winnt32.exe cannot find a valid partition to install to. So why am I using Syspart? So XP setup can see the partition. Next up, I thought go with the flow, and tried Kyor's summary from http://www.msfn.org/board/Installing-Winxp....html&st=20 So I do exactly as above. Boot into winPE, then importing Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\vds\Alignment] @="Alignment Settings in Bytes" "Between4_8GB"=dword:00000000 "Between8_32GB"=dword:00000000 "GreaterThan32GB"=dword:00000000 "LessThan4GB"=dword:00000000... then diskpart using sel disk 0 clean cre par pri sel par 1 active format fs=ntfs quick assign letter=c Do the bootsect thing, then my winnt command line which now z:\xp\i386\winnt32 /m:z:\xp\i386\ /syspart:c: /tempdrive:c: /makelocalsource /unattend:z:\unattend.txt Setup happily copies all the files to C:\ and if I take a moment to look after setup has quit back to the command line, I can see everything I expect to be there. So then I reboot and hey presto "Missing operating system" - what am I doing wrong here. Currently using Virtual PC 2007 if that's relevant! And cheers for all the advice so far, much appreciated! Duncan

Hi jaclaz, It's been a long story, my original winnt32 line was just WINNT32.exe /s:z:\xp\i386 /unattend:c:\config\unattend.txt but I was getting an error from Winnt32 saying it couldn't find a valid partition to install to. I've tried the formatting both from Diskpart and using winpe's format tool, at the moment it's running outside the diskpart script, and I am running bootsect.exe /nt52 C: after diskpart/format. Lemme give it a try without syspart, and see if it can see the partition. Cheers all!

I'll give anything a shot at the moment, but I was figuring it was more to do with theway the disk is prepped, aren't there issues trying to boot xpsetup from a disk prepped with winPE 2.0?

Now reads WINNT32.exe /s:z:\xp\i386 /unattend:c:\config\unattend.txt /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: Winnt32.exe seems to run without issue, copying files to C:, then reboots and finds.....nothing!

Nice try but no cigar! Still get "Missing operating system"...

You're right, didn't spot that, I'll give it a try and let you know.... We added the syspart switch as it wasn't finding a valid partition for install, didn't use it on our old DOS-based installs

Hi all, trying to create a WinPE 2.0 CD for building XP workstations. I have an .hta app that gathers all the required info, edits the Xp unattend etc, maps drive, copies drivers locally etc to a network source, then I run WINNT32.exe /s:z:\xp\i386 /unattend:c:\config\unattend.txt /syspart:C: This runs OK, copies all installation files to disk which has been prepped with diskpart and formatted. select disk 0 clean create partition primary size=2000 select partition 1 active assign letter=c exit But I've then been seeing all sorts of "Disk Read Error", "Missing operating System" etc errors when I expect to be rebooting into XP setup. At first I thought it was this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931760, but have tried the workarounds/resolution there without success. Then thought I might be missing bootsect.exe /nt52 C: but that doesn't seem to help either. I'm stumped. Does anyone have advice on a disk prepping procedure that will work in this scenario? Or am I just doing something really stupid??? Thanks in advance for any help! I'm a new member so hello all and hope I can also help some of you out once I've got over this one! Cheers Duncan