Unattended Installation Crashes At Final Stage

[helz]

Hi All,

Its come to that time again that I need to do a format. Now I've used my unattended installation disk before but decided to do some changes to it (add a couple of apps and soforth). I decided to create a new winnt.sif file (and for some reason deleted the old one and the backup lol!

The installation disk goes through the partitioning, formatting, copying files and actually installs windows, but after that where it restarts and loads up the final stage (where the users are selected and other things) it crashes on the windows logo and restarts. Would this be a sign of a problem with the winnt file? (since its the only change I've made other than changing which apps are to be installed)

Below is my winnt.sif file

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]Autopartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

AutomaticUpdates=no

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEulA=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

Repartition=No

Unattendswitch="Yes"

WaitForReboot="No"

OemPnPDriversPath=

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

AutoActivate=No

KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom"

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*?!>"$%^^&^%$

EncryptedAdminPassword=No

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=0

ProfilesDir="E:\Documents and Settings\"

[Display]

BitsPerPel=32

XResolution=1024

YResolution=768

Vrefresh=60

[userData]

ProductKey=#####-*****-?????-*****-#####

FullName=PC

OrgName=

ComputerName=PC

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=44

Dialing=Tone

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

Language=00000809

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=HOME

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Componants]

msmsgs=off

msnexplr=off

OEAccess=off

media_clips=off

Accessopt=off

AutoUpdate=off

templates=off

fax=off

Clipbook=off

hypertrm=off

rec=off

pinball=off

freecell=off

minesweeper=off

spider=off

hearts=off

zonegames=off

[shell]

DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes

[GUIRunOnce]

"%systemdrive%\Install\start.cmd"

[helz]

is this the final stage part of the winnt sif file?

[GuiUnattended]AdminPassword=*?!>"$%^^&^%$

EncryptedAdminPassword=No

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=0

ProfilesDir="E:\Documents and Settings\"

if so should i set:

OemSkipWelcome to 1 so it skips it instead of 0?

[Astalavista]

http://unattended.msfn.org/global/reference.htm

[helz]

hmm changed it OemSkipWelcome to 1 but it still crashes

its like as soon as the windows logo appears it restarts

[Dahi]

Does the E: drive exist?

ProfilesDir="E:\Documents and Settings\"

[helz]

yes, its there in the partition area and when doing a normal install.

on a side note:

just realised that backing up the documents and settings folder also makes a copy of start menu and that user's registry