indianya

Since no one replied let me ask the question again. Can someone tell if it is possible to perform mountvol/diskpart during windows xp setup and then use the mounted partition for special folders such as program files and documents and settings? Final windows xp installation should look like this C:/Windows on partition 1 C:/Program Files on partition 2 (mounted as folder c:/program files during unattended install) C:/Documents and settings on partition 3 (mounted as folder c:/D & S during unattended install)

I am a newbie as far windows xp sys admin is concerned but after getting help from this website I was able to perform winxp unattended installation successfully. I wanted "program files" and "Documents and settings" folder on a separate partition. I was able to do that by creating 3 partitions and formating each of those as NTFS filesystem prior to setup and then by using winnt.sif answer file during unattended windows xp install. My final installation looked like C:/Windows Partition 1 D:/Program files Partition 2 E:/Documents and settings. Partition 3 However my real goal is to have "Program Files" and "Documents and settings" folder on a mounted partition and that to happen during unattended installation. So that the final windows xp installation looks like this C:/Windows Partition 1 C:/Program Files Partition 2 (mounted as folder c:/program files during unattended install) C:/Documents and settings Partition 3 (mounted as folder c:/D & S during unattended install) I tried using diskpart but for some reason it doesn't give me all the options as advertised to select and mount partition etc. I would like to know if above can be done and if yes then some guidance would be helpful. Also if someone can tell me the setup and bootup sequence of windows xp that would be useful information. thanks indianya