The Definitive HOW-TO Guide - Unattended Windows 7

[Raoul90]

Hello,

I am a newb with Windows Vista / Windows 7 unattended solutions.

So I am searching some HOW-TO guide for Windows 7.

Just like this for XP:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/1/

But then for Windows 7.

Someone has some helpfull links for me?

Thanks in advance.

[spacesurfer]

Have you tried MSFN's own forum on this: Unattended Windows 7.

You can even try Vista's unattended since the principles of Vista and 7 are pretty much the same: Unattended Vista

[Raoul90]

Yes I saw those.

Question:

Is it even possible to play with Windows 7 if I am only running Windows XP x86 ATM?

Edited April 22, 2009 by Raoul90

[spacesurfer]

see my signature on how to install windows 7 to vhd if you want to play with it.

[Raoul90]

I now have Windows 7 installed in VMWare, will wait for RC1 and then make a dual boot (if i can find out how to dual boot xp and windows 7 Google ftw:D).

[spacesurfer]

there's really no need to google. Just start Windows 7 install and it takes care of the dual boot.

[Raoul90]

there's really no need to google. Just start Windows 7 install and it takes care of the dual boot.

Yes I just found out, lol.

Pretty easy, made a partition of 30gb's.

Wait a few days then download and burn image of RC and then im good to go.

Then I should use WAIK and vLite?

Edited April 26, 2009 by Raoul90

[spacesurfer]

Re WAIK, well, if you're a home use, like me, than it's really a waste of time to make your install unattended, in my opinion. I just don't do a whole lot of install, format, install, format, etc. to justify making an unattended. If you part of a corp. however, you might need to.

Re vLite - I do remove certain unnecessary components that I don't need, like media center but you have to be careful with vLite as it's not fully "compatible" with windows 7.

[Raoul90]

Oki, two more questions.

1) I got my new harddisk.

What size shall I make the partition of Windows 7?

I will probably install Office 2k7 on it and maybee some game. I was thinking about 40GB? Dunno exactly how much it uses right after fresh install. (will do a VM so I can check amount of GB's ). So its not really a question

2) I currenty have an older X1900XT graphics card, but AMD stopped suporting the X1900 series (since Catalyst 9.3), so they havent made a Windows 7 Catalyst for my grapics card.. What drivers should I use then? Windows Vista X86 Catalyst 9.3? (since im going to use Win7 X86).

Edited May 14, 2009 by Raoul90

[fizban2]

moved to proper forum

[maxXPsoft]

Oki, two more questions.

1) I got my new harddisk.

What size shall I make the partition of Windows 7?

I will probably install Office 2k7 on it and maybee some game. I was thinking about 40GB? Dunno exactly how much it uses right after fresh install. (will do a VM so I can check amount of GB's ). So its not really a question

2) I currenty have an older X1900XT graphics card, but AMD stopped suporting the X1900 series (since Catalyst 9.3), so they havent made a Windows 7 Catalyst for my grapics card.. What drivers should I use then? Windows Vista X86 Catalyst 9.3? (since im going to use Win7 X86).

40 GB is good depends if you are going to dual boot which I done for awhile, Seven is solid so I don't anymore and we have almost a year to play with this RC

Yes use the Vista drivers but Seven is a lot more efficient with drivers than any other version. I have a X-Fi extremegamer it don't like so I inject that driver so can play my music while it installs the other apps