redirect Documents and Settings upon install

[snickered]

I want to change the partition that Documents and Settings is on. I have created a Windows 2003 Server CD with a WINNT.SIF file containing the following:

[GuiUnattended]
	ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings"

I saw that the D: drive was already created when I choose which partition to install Windows on. The error I'm getting is:

Internal setup data structures are corrupted (phase 0).

So then I added some lines per this KB article: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/238835. Here is why my WINNT.SIF looks like now:

[GuiUnattended]
	ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings"
[Data]
	UnattendedInstall=Yes
	MSDosInitiated=No
	AutoPartition=0

Now I'm getting another error and don't know how to fix it. Here is my error:

Setup failed to install the product catalogs.  This is a fatal error.  The setup log files should contain more information.

Does anyone have an example WINNT.SIF where they successfully redirected Documents and Settings? TIA.

[snickered]

Alright, so I got that to work. Now my computer gets a BSOD. I know people have done this before... why can't I get the Documents and Settings to redirect properly?!?!? The BSOD is the generic one with no error codes. It just tells me to run chkdsk /r. I do that and of course the drives are clean. Does this maybe have something to do with the fact that my computer has a RAID setup. There are two RAID arrays... RAID1(C:) and RAID5(D:). I am going to have lots of users logging into this server so I want the D&S folder to be on the large array. Please someone guide a lost soul.

[Grake]

;Change location of my documents
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]
"Personal"   ="D:\\"

You can run a reg file after the install with the above key. That's what I do, and not from winnt.sif and works fine. Don't know what you have to put in winnt.sif though, maybe someone else can help you with that.

Edited February 18, 2008 by Grake

[IcemanND]

I don't know why you are getting a BSOD. But here is what I have used in the past. Just be sure that the location you are moving the profiles directory to is formatted before T-13 otherwise you will have all kinds of strange problems. The CopySource.cmd script also includes a script to format the D: partition.

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
	AutoPartition=0
	MsDosInitiated="0"
	UnattendedInstall="Yes"
	AutomaticUpdates=YES

[Unattended]
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	UnattendSwitch=Yes
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OemPreinstall=Yes
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	Repartition=Yes
	WaitForReboot=No

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=*
	EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
	TimeZone=35
	OemSkipWelcome=1
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings"
	DetachedProgram=CMD.EXE
	Arguments="/Q /C START /MIN /B %systemdrive%\Install\CopySource.cmd"

[UserData]
	ProductKey=Z1Y2X-W3V4U-T5S6R-Q7P8O-N9M0L
	FullName="ND User"
	OrgName="University of Notre Dame"
	ComputerName=*

[Display]
	BitsPerPel=32
	Xresolution=1024
	YResolution=768

[TapiLocation]
	CountryCode=1
	Dialing=Tone
	AreaCode=574

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup=BUILD

[Proxy]
	Proxy_Enable=0
	Use_Same_Proxy=0

[GuiRunOnce]
	Command0=c:\windows\system32\autoupdate.vbs

[Shell]
	DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes
	DefaultThemesOff=Yes