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It's all 32bit as far as I know, and file is in the root of the drive and labelled correctly I ran out of time to get this method working as it was required for a project at short notice, used Ghost in the end to do what I needed. I didn't try a DVD with the file on a USB drive though, might give that a bash, cheers!

Sure, removed domain/account specific details and replaced with 'DOMAINNAME' etc. Installation is a 32bit Windows 7 install.

The USB drive boots into the windows install just fine, that bit there's no problem, I have no problem creating a bootable USB drive for a windows install. It's just the fact that no matter what I try with the xml files the setup just doesn't seem to acknowledge them so I'm unable to then make my USB install into an unattended one.

Hi, I have a little problem trying to create and use an autounattend.xml file to deploy Windows 7 Pro unattended. The setup is like this, I have a bootable USB key with the flat Windows 7 Pro (volume license edition) on it. This is literally just a copy of the installation disc. I've then put an autoattend.xml file onto the root of the drive along with all the other standard files and folders. I've tried using my own autounattend file and also the one that comes as a sameple with AIK. Now when I boot a machine up from this USB drive it always prompts me for everything, languages, EULA, disc to install on etc. Now my understanding was if I've got the autounattend file on the root of the drive with these settings it shouldn't do this right? Does it matter that the files on the USB are just the ISO I downloaded from my MS volume license account, I don't have to built a machine, sysprep it, take a copy of the install.wim for this to work do I? Any help is much appreciated as it's starting to drive me nuts not working! Thanks