slowmo Posted April 24, 2008 Posted April 24, 2008 HiI'm having problems relocating the 'Documents and Settings' through an unattended installation. I have looked through other posts but none of them seem to answer the question that I need answered.Essentially I have created a winnt.sif with the following additions under unattended:ProgramFilesDir=”D:\My Program Files”CommonProgramFilesDir=D:\My Program Files\My Common Files”ProfilesDir=”E:\Documents and Settings”Windows XP Professional installs fine and a 'Program Files' directory is created on D: drive. However 'Documents and Settings' remains on C: drive. I am not getting any error messages. I have also created a couple of accounts and logged on and saved a file to check where it saved to. It was the C: drive. I am using a virtual machine (VirtualBox) for the installation and there is an E: drive partition that is NTFS formatted. Does anyone have any ideas as to why it is not relocating 'Documents and Settings'? Thanks
slowmo Posted November 10, 2008 Author Posted November 10, 2008 I found that the answer to this one was very simple but like a lot of simple answers I simply couldn't see it! I had put the 'ProfilesDir' line under '[unattended]' heading when it actually needed to go under the section '[GuiUnattended]' heading. This solved the problem. So I guess what I have learnt from this one is to double check that everything is under the correct heading.
corisco Posted November 11, 2008 Posted November 11, 2008 I am searching for some background information on this topic. I would like to do similar to what you did but I have not been succesfull at that. Maybe, if you are willing of course, cou could brief me about the procedure you used. Your help is very much appreciatedregards
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