Hello everybody,

I've created an unattended installation for Ms XP Pro, i would like to know what is the syntax for created a partition of 30GB on my hard disk.

I've some problems with my installation, my desktop is created in a workgroup .

All my parameters are in the WINNT.SIF, i want to:

- disable the automatic updates

- to not activate Windows

- not to create an user

So the installation works well, but the installation need me to disable the automatic updates, to activate or not Windows and create a local user.

Here you can see some elements of my SIF file:

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

UnattendSwitch=No

OemPreinstall=Yes

OemSkipEula=Yes

FileSystem=NTFS

WaitForReboot=No

NoWaitAfterTextMode=1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

Hibernation=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

AutoActivate=No

DisableDynamicUpdates=Yes

You can i've entered the parameters to disable the automatic updates, and the activation of windows, but it doesn't work . Have you an idea to solve my problem?

Thanks a lot

You might want to take some time to read this:

unattended.msfn.org

Most of those issues are addressed there. To pre-partition your HD you'll need to look into something like WinPE and diskpart.

Have you any idea for my other problem? Is windows ask me to add a user because i'm in a workgroup?

No, it's asking you to add a user because you didn't specify an option in you answer file...again, this is in the unattneded.msfn.org site.

You have:

UnattendSwitch=No

That means it will run your through the mini-setup, where you create a user etc...you need to change that value to:

UnattendSwitch=Yes

There are other things that may effect this as well. But that's the major one...you should specifically spend time reading this section:

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/

Ho well, i'll try it tomorrow and let you know if its works.

Thanks a lot for your help

it worked with the " UnattendSwitch=Yes ".

So my installation is perfect, but still have my problem to limit the C:\ partition to 30Gb.