RickT

You can try WinPatrol http://winpatrol.com/

Gee, I do understand what everyone is trying to say. I know that adding the winnt.sif file is going to make it an Unattended CD, but I was just wondering if there was something in my winnt.sif file that was causing me to kill some options in the text-mode portion of the install. I want the text-mode portion of the setup not to be unattended just the GUI portion. But with all of these replies, I don't think that is going to work. I can either have the winnt.sif file or I can't. The sad thing is too, the winnt.sif also tells the setup that I use a $OEM$ folder for adding some files via a cmdlines.txt to add my REG tweaks and a System32 folder to add some files to my system32 folder in windows (OemPreinstall = Yes). I guess I am going to have to go a different router for that. And my cd is a Slipstreamed CD. I have added all the hotfixes plus some other Silent Installers and am adding them in at T-13 via the svcpack.inf way. Another thing I can do is just have two CD's. One for the full Unattended Install without the repair option, and another CD without the winnt.sif just for doing repairs on the OS. Thank again for all your help.

Thanks, I'll take a look at it.

Thanks for all the help, but, I didn't mean the recovery console wasn't coming up... The Recovery Console does work. It comes up right after the computer boots off the CD. It askes if you if you want to start the Recovery Console to press F2. That does work. ...it's the "Press [R] to repair your current Windows installation" option that's not working. From there Windows should just copy over all the default system files but leave all your current settings and files intact. If I take the winnt.sif file out of the "i386" file list, it will give me the "Press [R] to repair" option, but when I put it back in, it doesn't work anymore. Is there an option in the winnt.sif file that I need to change? Or I just can not have a winnt.sif if I want that repair option? Thanks.

Really???? So you can't use the winnt.sif anymore to do an unattended install? CRAZY! So is there an alternative way to do a "winnt.sif" type thing?

I can not figure it out... Does anyone know why the repair option in the text-setup portion of the install just disappeared? It's actually both times it give you a chance to repair. (It's not the "Automated System Recovery" option, that works) I have tried a bunch of different ways, but nothing seems to work. Here is what my winnt.sif looks like: [Data] Autopartition = 0 MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = Yes [unattended] OemSkipEula = Yes OemPreinstall = Yes UnattendMode = FullUnattended TargetPath = \WINDOWS FileSystem = * UnattendSwitch = Yes WaitForReboot = No DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore Hibernation = No [systemRestore] MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 1 [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword = * EncryptedAdminPassword = No TimeZone = 010 OEMSkipRegional = 1 OemSkipWelcome = 1 [userData] ProductKey = "xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx" Fullname = "User" OrgName = * ComputerName = "User" [TapiLocation] CountryCode = 1 Dialing = Tone AreaCode = 915 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup = 1 Language = 0409 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents = Yes [Components] msmsgs = off msnexplr = off zonegames = off Home_Page = http://www.google.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------- Everything else works great, no problems at all. It's just the repair option. Thank you so much for any help.