I am struggling with the whole unattended installation of Windows as well, and I tried several things, also suggestions from previous posts. My situation is as follows: My hdd contains: C: (where I want Xp on) D: Where the distribution files are. Now what I want is to choose the partition to install to, with the option of formatting. When I choose to format the whole drive, it will kill the distribution files as well, so that wouldn't work. Anyone any ideas?