chata

Hi I have created an unattended install of win xp and it has to install from flash disk. I have made the flash disk boot to dos prompt just like win9x startup diskette would do. And it goes well up to copying of setup files that's when it stops without any error message. I decided to remove the flash disk and found that in it were created some temp files/folders for xp boot/install including boot.ini, bootsect.dos, ntdetect.com, ntldr... and I finally realised that the flash disk is C: drive and this was the reason why it was installing to itself. is there a way of changing the prompt of bootable flash disk to something else other than C: drive? so tht when it boot, it deletes partition, creates partition (this should be C: drive and not any other letter)? For now it boots and does the following: - deletes all partitions - creates one partition and formats it then restarts - after restarting it was supposed to start copying setup files to the created and formatted partition (which seems to be done but does not go anywhere and stops) these some files which were copied were found to be in flash disk itsels - so it were installing to itself. Please also find batch file(unattend.bat) which is executed by the autoexec.bat @echo off cls :: Set environmental variables set AnswerFile=c:\unattend.txt set SetupFiles=c:\i386 if exist flag\flag.txt goto INSTALL echo. echo Your PC is ready for installation echo. echo ALL data will be lost. echo. echo Do you want to continue (Y/N)? echo. yn.com if not errorlevel 1 goto STOP goto PART @call createpart.bat echo Gdisk was Run > flag\flag.txt reboot.com goto END :INSTALL If exist flag\flag.txt del flag\flag.txt ::Start the Windows XP Install c: cd\ i386\winnt.exe /u:%AnswerFile% /s:%SetupFiles% goto END :STOP cls echo. echo User Terminated Install echo. cd\ goto END :END Thanks. Chata.