I wouldn't be this steep about the matter. Autoformat/partitioning has been around for a long while, propably a lot longer than xPE softwares. I think that enough searching and working would result in another way. Wether or not the newfound way would be better than xPE is another topic to discuss. I could try to ask around at work, there are some veteran guys who are likely to know atleast something about this. -j ..I'm VERY suprised if there really isn't a way to do this now-a-days, since I have seen it happen with NT4. Although I think that was a program the sysadmin wrote, or scrapped up somewhere.