confusion in winnt.sif.......

[abbhishek]

hi

i have a problem in my answer file...........

only this portion i want to do it manually :

during the textmode portion of the setup process at the place where setup detects the partitions existing in the drive and prompts to select the partition where to install the os.previously after selecting the partition i used to get a screen prompting me to format the drive having 4 options quick format - ntfs , fat and full format - ntfs , fat.i want to do this process manually.

but now whem i use the answer file after the partition selection i do not get any option to format but what i get is a screen which says me to delete the existing folder or name any other folder but i dont want this i want to have the option to format the partition

this is a portion of my winnt.sif :

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

UnattendSwitch="yes"

WaitForReboot="No"

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

DisableDynamicUpdates=No

Hibernation=1

KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

i think that there is a problem in this portion. any help please..........

Edited August 17, 2007 by abbhishek

[blinkdt]

I think you missed this:

[Unattended]
	Repartition=No

[abbhishek]

I think you missed this:

[Unattended]
	Repartition=No

evwn after adding this line the prob isint solved

[nfiniteFX]

Well try this setup, It just worked in virtual PC2007, gave me option to delete, create, and format

[Data]

Autopartition=0

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

MsDosInitiated=No

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

UnattendSwitch="Yes"

OemSkipEula="Yes"

FileSystem=*

WaitForReboot="No"

NoWaitAfterTextMode=1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

Hibernation="Yes"

OemPreinstall=Yes

KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

the main thing you need is these two.

If you prefer to manually choose a partition during text-mode setup with full control on choice of file system, then make sure you have these lines set as they are under the [Data] and [unattended] sections in winnt.sif:

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

[unattended]

FileSystem=*

Edited August 21, 2007 by nfiniteFX

[abbhishek]

THANK YOU all everybody for the help

especially @nfiniteFX for the filesystem=*

this was what i was missing and now the problem is solved