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That's the problem, Repartition=yes is not wiping the entire volume. I have just tried adding it to the [unattended] section and that did not work either. (I can of course set repartition=no, but I'd rather not have to do it manually.) It seems the repartition option has problems with fat partitions that do not have a drive letter. Perhaps it interprets this as a non-windows partition (repartition will not work on non-windows partitions)

New PCs, such as Dell, tend to come with an EISA FAT partition containing diagnostic tools. This is unnecessary for our environment. Under 'Disk Management' EISA partitions are hidden, i.e. they have no drive letter assigned. [RemoteInstall] Repartition=yes Does not remove this partition. This upsets me. Is there a way to resolve this problem using only the SIF file? (I know that you can use BartPE and various other tools). I have seen an example where 'repartition=yes' has to be under [unattended] but I am running this off a RIS server. If this is the case, why? What is the point of [remoteinstall] if it does not work?

Yes it's a little annoying. You would think there would be an msi file given that you can keep WDS updated using WSUS (but not install it).

I was having the same problem (pausing during install while NHW looked for a monitor driver) so I followed http://support.microsoft.com/?id=814847 (supplied by Bashrat) to fix my unattended install running off a W2K3 RIS server with the kb883667 hotfix. Bashrat, I'm not sure why integrating the hotfix would not work as you mentioned; I tested it and it worked fine. My understanding is that any hotfix can be integrated (I use the SVCPack method). The only reason I wouldn't integrate it is because it is easy for me to see what hotfixes have been applied using SVCPack and also allows me to remove a hotfix should I need to.

"/quiet /norestart works obviously" Yes, but it wasn't and that was the point. It does however work now as I explained. I found it to be faster and WDS also has adm templates for GP use; I'm not sure that Googledesktopsearch offers the same. 2.6.5 of WDS also autocloses Outlook without the need for a switch.

The /quiet option also solves the problem of the dialogue box that appears asking if you want to restart. I'm not sure why the /norestart option, i.e. the second parameter being passed, wasn't working before (perhaps a corrupt file); I recreated it and it started working fine. I was hoping that /passive /norestart would also not show the restart dialogue box, but unfortunately it does. Anyway, thanks to everyone who responded. Heathuff - offtopic but I would use the enterprise edition of WDS if you don't want the toolbar.

WDS only supports the following parameters: /help /quiet /passive /norestart /forcerestart /warnrestart /promptrestart /overwriteoem /nobackup /forceappsclose /integrate /log The issues seems to be with how it runs in the batch file, for example (I should have mentioned this earlier) start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive works fine, but start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive /norestart does not

Without the quotes the problem remains. The reason I used them is because it is a nested switch as such. Similarly start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe "/passive "/norestart"" Does not work. If I run WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive /norestart directly from the commandline, it works fine. For some reason in the batch file it is not working. Strange behaviour.

I have setup an unattended install (XP) running from a RIS server. The batch file contains the following: start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\WindowsDesktopSearch\WindowsDesktopSearch-KB907371-V2-x86-ENU.exe /passive "/norestart" Yet it still prompts to restart. This causes problems for any application following this one in the list. I know I can add this to the bottom of the list as a workaround but that method isn't really 'elegant'. Does anyone have any ideas?