3 Partitions (Drive C)

[codeblue]

Wow, what responces Unfortuantly all tjis talk of scripting is well above my head. Think i will use PMagic to split drive after install and be done with it

[buletov]

...knoppix includes a great partitioning toot, I believe it's PartEd...

[jaclaz]

@codeblue

Yes, I have used Diskman, but for different purposes, (disk imaging and virtual disk making).

And No, I think it does not support as per now NTFS directly, but that could be the lesser problem as there is the converting tool.

As I see it, Godfatha is right, you need to boot in DOS or FREEDOS, run the batch file(s) needed to fdisk and format

(here is a link to the FREEDOS fdisk, which appears to be scriptable:

http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/),

then invoke the windows setup.

Another possibility is Ranish's Partition Manager:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Again, I use a lot the latter, but I have never tried to script it, most probably it can be done by the method seen above for fdisk or "echoing" characters into it.

jaclaz

[edg21]

Never figured it out how use it, but my guess is that if you REALLY want this, then i will get a PM to tell me that you got it working during unattended install!!

I'm very interrested....

I use the follwing in WinPE to setup a single full size partition & format it, you could easily modify it.

dp.cmd

diskpart /s diskpart.cfg
format c: /fs:NTFS /v:"" /Q /Y

diskpart.cfg

Select Disk 0
Clean
Create Partition primary
Active
Assign Letter=c
exit