Kaiwen

Thanks for your reply, MasterControl. Unfortunately, I'm a bit dense tonight. I haven't been able to find in the winnt.sif reference the answer to my problem (I did find my error with %ProfilesDir% though -- thanks). I'm trying to do a fully unattended install to my D: partition without reformatting, but Setup keeps pausing to prompt me to specify a partition. My AUTORUN.INF looks like this: [AutoRun]open=\i386\winnt /s:\i386 /t:D /u:\i386\winnt.sificon=setup.exe,0and my (corrected) WINNT.SIF looks like this: [Data] MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="E:\Application Data\Users\" TimeZone=220 [unattended] DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem=LeaveAlone KeyboardLayout="US" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\" OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes Repartition=No TargetPath=\WinXP UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch="Yes" WaitForReboot="Yes"Any suggestions for this newbie? Kaiwen

In the [GuiUnattended] section, add the ProfilesDir switch, like so: [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 ProfilesDir="x:\New\Path\" TimeZone=220Kaiwen

I'm attempting to do the same thing, with a twist: I have three partitions, all preconfigured and formatted. Since I don't want setup touching my partitioning scheme, I've set REPARTITION=NO. C: primary 2gb FAT16 DOS D: logical 16gb NTFS WinXP E: logical 78gb NTFS Data I want a fully unattended install, but I want setup to install to D:\WinXP. But setup keeps prompting me to select a target installation. Does order make a difference? I'm a bit organizationally anal, and have everything in alphabetical order. But near as I can tell, all the relevant settings from MasterControl's winnt.sif are the same as mine. My AUTORUN.INF looks like this: OPEN=\i386\winnt.exe /s:\i386 /t:D /u:\i386\winnt.sifICON=setup.exe,0The relevant portions of my winnt.sif looks like this: Data] MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="password" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 TimeZone=220 [unattended] DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem=LeaveAlone KeyboardLayout="US" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\" OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes ProfilesDir="E:\Application Data\Documents and Settings\" Repartition=No TargetPath=\WinXP UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch="Yes" WaitForReboot="Yes"Kaiwen

Update: I was using Partion Magic 8 to set up the partitions; apparently WINNT.EXE doesn't recognize PQM's NTFS formatting -- it reports "unknown" formats for the partitions. So I let Windows setup format the partitions, then tried again. It recognizes the formats now, but still stops to prompt for a destination directory. Why? Kaiwen

I'm trying to create an Windows XP unattended install to my D: partition. I'm testing this in VirtualPC 2004. My partitions are preformatted as follows: C: 2gb FAT16 DOS partition with D: 16gb NTFS Windows XP partition E: 64gb NTFS Data partition If I boot from my Windows CD, it stops and prompts me to select a partition to install. Since I want to specify the partition beforehand, I modified my AUTORUN.INF to this: OPEN=\i386\winnt.exe /s:\i386 /t:D /u:\i386\winnt.sif ICON=SETUP.EXE,0 However, when I boot with the above, setup reports that it can't find a partition with sufficient space, and aborts. Is this because WINNT.EXE can't handle NTFS partitions? How can I acomplish what I'm trying to do? Lee Kaiwen