Confused with Autopartition and Repartition

[Major]

Hello Men, after reading all the posts regarding thoses terms, i have a doubt.

I have two HDD;

The first HDD1: is Master and has already operative system OS (windows xp sp1)

The second HDD2: is Slave and Has my datas and storage.

I want to do unatteded windows setup and I will write what i have understood.

Autopartition=1:

means that unattended setup will install OS on any free partition available:

in my case, as the HDD1 has already OS installed, the unattended setup will install OS in my HDD2, is it true?

Repartition=yes

means that unattended will delete all the partitions on the first drive and will format it and install.

in my case, the unattended setup will install OS in my HDD1 as it is the first drive. is it true?

My question:

which of the two actions will be done? i means where will OS unattended be installed, in HDD1 or HDD2?

Thanks

[tguy]

Your interpretation of the results is correct. To accomplish the reinstall of XP or any other OS on HDD1 use AutoPartition=0 and Repartition=Yes

This is what I use to Autoformat my drives when building PC's and servers.

[jfmartel]

I'm still confused with tthis one.

What am i suposed to do if i want to format the first partition and let other partition there?

[amardeepsingh]

u do one thing

you set

autopartition=0

and repartition=no

as a result of this

the xp will prompt you for drive where you want to install your windows whether its on hdd 1 or hdd 2

doing this u can choose the desired partition on desired hardisk without endangering other partitions

i hope this will work

tell me it worked or not.

[jfmartel]

Ok thank you.

So there is no setting i can set that will choose the first partiton and format it....

MS you got to work on that

[amardeepsingh]

first of tell me where u want to install xp

is that c drive on your first hardisk

if yes then there is no way except i had suggested to u.

u have to select during the prompt.

if you dont want the prompt to be displayed but want to install xp on c drive then do one thing

set autopartition=1

and repartition =no

and then format your c drive manually

only then your windows will be installed on first drive i.e c drive

because unattended setup checks for following two things

1. Free space for installation

2. No windows already installed on partition where u desired to install ur windows

hope it works

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