Elkhound

Don't know if this will help you, but I was trying to format my external hard drive in FAT32 from windows (XP Pro) and ran into this problem as well. I ended up finding out that NTFS will be the default file system if the partition is 32gb or greater... Since I needed to be able to read files from this external drive in older Windows 98 & ME systems, I formatted a smaller partition in FAT32 and the rest in NTFS. Moral of the story: Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional can format FAT32 volumes up to 32 GB only. Use NTFS to format larger volumes. (Here's the LINK to the Microsoft.com tech article that discusses it. Good luck!

That looks like a pretty good batch file there, but I'm a little bit confused by it... I'm assuming that once you get to the point that the batch files are running, everything has already been copied to the hard drive... Or has it? If it has, then I guess it tells you and you can insert your 2nd Cd-ROM and add whatever applications you need.... Right? If you could drop a reply with some more info on that batch file, it'd be greatly appreciated! Elkhound

First off I'd like to say GREAT JOB on both the website with the instructions on how to do this as well as the great forum here. All my questions were answered between both sites. After doing a bit of research, I figured out how to get Norton SystemWorks 2003 to install silently and without rebooting. First off, we're assuming you either have a 2 CD-ROM setup (which I'm still looking into perfecting) or a DVD-R. Next, copy your entire NSW CD to a directory on your hard drive. In this case, I copied it to the $OEM$\$1\install\Applications\NSW2003 directory. Add this to your applications.cmd batch file: ECHO Installing Norton SystemWorks 2003 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\NSW2003\NSW.msi /qb reboot=suppress ECHO Patching Norton Antivirus 2003 start /wait 20030829-017-x86.exe /q ECHO. Make SURE that the line with the NSW.msi is continuous and does NOT break after the /qb as it does on my screen when posted here. And as you see there are no quotes where the reboot=suppress statement is. I tried it with quotes and a few other ways and it simply would not work. Next, to update the virus definitions for the Anti-Virus portion of NSW, go to Symantec's Antivirus Update Page. This link is for the U.S. English version. The other versions are only a few clicks away from there. Download the latest file, then add that to your image and just add a /q at the end of it so that it also installs silently. After everything is done installing and the machine reboots, you will unfortunately still have to use LiveUpdate to get the latest patches for NSW, but it drops the size of the patches from 6MB + to about +/- 2MB. This is my first time doing anything like this, so if I've made any mistakes or overlooked something, please let me know! And keep up the good work in here Aaron! Elkhound