Format drive during unattended install

[Guest jtadeo]

Hello all!

This is my first post.

I'm trying to learn more about unattended installs, and I'm working with an old pc to help me familiarize myself with this.

What I want to do is install Windows XP pro from a USB flash drive.

I have already made the usb flash drive bootable using the HP utility and I have also created a normal unnattended configuration with the help of http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/8/

Please let me know if I'm doing anything wrong

I have copied the i386 folder to my flash drive

I started the install of XP from the dos prompt Question 1: did I start the install correctly?

cd i386

winnt.exe

It started copying files to the hard drive... - Question 2: does that mean that it already formatted the drive using NTFS? If it did not format the drive is there a way to specify to format the drive?

Please let me know what you think, or if i totally screwed up .

Thanks in advanced!

[KingAFW]

Im running preinstallation from a WindowsPE environment so not sure what switches you can/should use when running winnt32.exe

However you should have a winbom.ini file which have a section for formatting your harddrive. A section of my winbom.ini looks like this:

[Disk1.config]

Wipedisk=yes

Size1=79000

PartitionType1=primary

FileSystem1=ntfs

QuickFormat1=yes

This makes him wipe the disk no questions asked and make 1 partition of 80 gig leaving the rest unpartitioned.