Here's my question. Is it possible to do an unattended install and then go and Sysprep it so it prompts a user for name, product key, time zone etc. ?

I have my unattended install working great but I've now tried to sysprep it with the above things but it never seems to call forth the sysprep.inf file. This is Windows XP Home I'm trying this on so no mini-setup is available.

Can this be done? If so, can someone help me start it? I'm not too familiar with Sysprep and switches etc but I've researched here as best I could and haven't seen this question arise before.

Thanks,

Cayce

@Caycep - I have never worked with XP Home edition but do a lot of work with XP Pro and Sysprep for my company. What you want to do should be possible. Do you have Sysprep.exe and sysprep.inf along with the couple other support files it wants in the directory c:\sysprep? The directory must be c:\sysprep and the sysprep.inf must be called such.

Also, you didn't mention which SP you are running but SP2 released a new version of sysprep - SP1's version of sysprep will NOT work with SP2.

John

Yes it's SP2 I'm working with and I have the SP2 deploy cab and the items in the right directory.

I've done a bit more research and everything's turned up XP Home cannot do Mini setup (under Sysprep) like Pro can but I've seen laptops that have it (Dell, LG Fujitsu) so they must somehow have found a way to.

Very frustrating.

Are you leaving the items that you want to be prompted for blank?

For example to prompt for the computer name:

[UserData]
   ;Computername (Not specified so user will be prompted)
    Computername=