XP unnatended RAID problem

[mackaque]

Hi all, thx for reading and I wish someone will know what's going on here

I made an unnatended CDs of XP like 3 months ago

It's working great, I added a lot of options to it and everything is working fine except this

I use this CD to install on a lot of PCs, I format PCs a lot and I needed something to accelerate the processus.

Now the problem is that new motherboard with SATA only have RAID controller so we need to hit F6 and put a floppy.

Since I do that on a lot of different PCs I don't want to put the drivers on the CDs cause I never use the same driver so I use the floppy.

Problem is that when I use my Unnatended Cds, I hit F6, it ask me the drivers, I put the floppy, choose the right driver ... it continues to the disk partition, I partition the disk and then right before copying the files to the HD, they are asking me the RAID driver again, I put back the floppy and he is not able to find the drivers ...

I tried with a normal CD of XP (not unnatended) it works fine ...

I said to myself prolly a weird bug .. but some day later tried on another PC who needs RAID DRIVER and same problem

I really don't know what is wrong in my setup it's like it doesn't keep the RAID driver

Anyone had that problem ? .. it's really anoying cause 75% of the time now I need to put RAID DRIVERS ...

Thank you for your help and if you need more infos of what I putted in my setup, ask me

[cluberti]

If you're installing from DOS, this is sort of a known problem (I can reproduce it with multiple XP and 2003 CDs, different SP levels, and with multiple RAID controllers). Consider using the TEXTMODE way of adding files to your unattended CD (http://support.microsoft.com/?id=816299), or use nLite to add the drivers. Otherwise, you'll always have this problem when installing from DOS.

[Ghostrider]

Try building a unnattended cd using the BTS driver packs

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=111

[mackaque]

Ok, I looked for the BTS drivers ..

But there is no way to make it works without adding any drivers ?

I'm installing it from a single windows CD (Only XP on it) and I start the installation booting from the CD-ROM.

Thank you.

[cluberti]

Note that the article is for Windows Server 2003, but it will work with any NT-based OS (NT4 and up):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...kb;en-us;816299

This should make things work for you.