Drive formatting

[kdhawkins]

OK, I give up. I have been searching the net for the last couple of weeks and have not been able to figure this out. Here is what I need to do. I need to check for the existence of the app directory and the profile directory before the unattended install of XP. If the folders exist, I want to rename them to preserve the old data so the install can create new instances of the folders. I also need to make sure that all drives are formatted before the install starts because the unattended install errors out registering dlls if they are not. This is because I am putting the apps folder and profiles folder on the d drive. I tried using the detachedprogram option but this did not work. Microsoft documentation states that this runs along with the install so I believe that is why. I have also tried using Bart’s PE to launce the XP setup from there but found it to be somewhat flaky. Does anyone have suggestions as to how I should go about doing this?

[jondercik]

You cant do all that.

[jcarle]

Actually you can. But it would be a lot of work. You'd need to boot your computer with a boot disk, run a batch file in Autoexec.bat of the boot disk to check for those things you're looking for above, then manually start the installion of XP and loading the unattended instructions file by command-line switches.