Formatting gone with unattended setup?

[todd]

The menus dont seem to be the same when first booting into a cd with winnt.sif. Normally, you press Enter on the partition you want to install Windows on, and it asks if you want to leave it alone, format in ntfs, fat32, or quick methods of those. However, with the unattended, once you select the partition it simply states that it will overwrite files in \WINDOWS. How do i use the original where i can format the partition?

[RyanVM]

The only way I know of is to delete the partition and recreate it.

[todd]

Well, with another partition, wouldnt that mess things up? Say i have partation A (C:) and partition B (D:) .. wouldnt that mess up partition B to delete and add partation A?

Heres an explanation of the original situation in pictures

Normal Setup

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Unattended Setup

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[nuhi]

RyanVM is right, just delete it and install windows on Unpartitioned space, it will ask you for desired file system.

Don't worry about corrupting other partitions, that won't happen.