Winnt.sif and autopartition

[kungfumaster9]

Hi all!

I've attached part of my winnt.sif file below for inspection but my question is quite simple; if I have more than one HDD installed in a computer, how will WinXP's autopartitioning affect the two drives? Will it just delete the partitions on the first disk drive i.e. the master or will it erase all data?

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutomaticUpdates=Yes

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

Repartition=Yes

UnattendSwitch=yes

WaitForReboot=No

Thanks for your time!

[Kleopatra]

AutoPartition

Value: 1

Installs Windows to the first available partition that has adequate space for a Windows installation and does not already contain an installed version of Windows. Either omit the AutoPartition entry from your answer file or set the value of AutoPartition to 1. If AutoPartition = 1, the /tempdrive command-line option of Winnt32.exe is ignored. If you do not set the value, text-mode Setup installs Windows on the partition where $WIN_NT$.~LS is located.

[MHz]

Repartition=Yes

will delete first partition, format and install automatically.

[kungfumaster9]

Repartition=Yes

will delete first partition,  format and install automatically.

So it will leave all other partitions and other disk drives alone?

[Kleopatra]

No. Repartition=Yes delete ALL partitions on first drive.

[kungfumaster9]

So am I right in thinking that it will leave the second, third and so forth hdd alone? Sorry to bother you, but I don't want to destroy my data!

Regards

[Kleopatra]

Repartition= Yes

HDD 1 will completly delete (all partitions)

HDD 2 and so on keep alive

[kungfumaster9]

Thanks. Phew! Now that that's sorted out...