Lost Partition

[friedchicken]

My unattended partition windows always remove whatever partitions I have so on the blue partition screen, i would see an unformatted hard drive.

How do I fix that.

Sorry about asking too much but is there a way to autocreate username too and skip the intro?

Here is my winnt.sif

[Data]

AutomaticUpdates = "No"

Autopartition = 0

MsDosInitiated = 0

UnattendedInstall = "Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode = DefaultHide

UnattendSwitch = "No"

OemPreinstall = "Yes"

OemSkipEula = "Yes"

FileSystem = *

WaitForReboot = "No"

NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1

Hibernation = "No"

OemPnpDriversPath= "D\C\A;D\C\AM\1;D\C\AM\2;"

OemPreinstall= Yes

DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

[Display]

BitsPerPel = 32

Vrefresh = 75

[systemRestore]

DisableSR = 1

CreateFirstRunRp = 0

[setupParams]

SkipMissingFiles = "No"

[GuiUnattended]

EncryptedAdminPassword = "xxxx"

AdminPassword = xxxx

TimeZone = 04

OEMSkipRegional = 1

OemSkipWelcome = 1

[Components]

[userData]

ProductKey = "xxxx"

ComputerName = xxx

FullName = "xxx"

[RegionalSettings]

Language = "0409"

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents = "Yes"

[WindowsFirewall]

Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]

Mode = 0

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup = "MSHOME"

[GUIRunOnce]

command9="%SystemDrive%\fnsh_log.cmd"

command10="%SystemDrive%\install\applications\preinstall.cmd"

[Shindo_Hikaru]

[Data] section with the following entries to the unattended answer file:

• UnattendedInstall=Yes - Value must be set to "yes"

• MSDosInitiated=No - Value must be set to "no" or Setup stops during the graphical portion of Setup

• AutoPartition=1 - If the value is set to 1, the installation partition is automatically selected. If the value is set to 0 (zero), you are prompted for the installation partition during the text portion of Setup

Edited July 22, 2006 by Shindo_Hikaru

[friedchicken]

Are you trying to retain your existing partiton or replace the partition with a fresh one.

No, I just want my disc to not show my entire hd as unformatted.

Everytime I boot from the disc, the hd is shown as unformatted. So my d:,e:, etc partitions are gone.

I basically lose everything every time i boot from the disc.

[Shindo_Hikaru]

As far as i am aware, you are only able to setup one partition and not mulitple partitions and on your list,

[unattended]

UnattendMode = DefaultHide

UnattendSwitch = "No"

OemPreinstall = "Yes"

OemSkipEula = "Yes"

FileSystem = * ---------------------------> unspecified File System

WaitForReboot = "No"

NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1

Hibernation = "No"

OemPnpDriversPath= "D\C\A;D\C\AM\1;D\C\AM\2;"

OemPreinstall= Yes

DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore

i do reacall that you can setup to leave partitions as it and autoformat, i have not created a Winnt.sif Script in a while.

Check here for more complete details.

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

[Mercury_22]

You need to modify this in your winnt.sif

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

UnattendSwitch=Yes

[Takeshi]

I believe Autopartition=0 is correct, otherwise it will reformat your entire HD.

I get the impression that it won't delete the individual partition if it already exists. You either do it manually before unattended installation, or (at least people say) use WinPE/BartPE and Diskpart. Unofficially some people say using Disk.Config (from winbom.ini) would work but I've not tried it. These have all been discussed before here.

BTW, I see in your winnt.sif you have:

[systemRestore]DisableSR = 1

CreateFirstRunRp = 0

It isn't in ref.chm but I've seen it posted before here and elsewhere, does it actually work?

Edited July 22, 2006 by Takeshi

[Shindo_Hikaru]

• AutoPartition=1 - If the value is set to 1, the installation partition is automatically selected. If the value is set to 0 (zero), you are prompted for the installation partition during the text portion of Setup

AGAIN pay a visit to this site http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/

[friedchicken]

BTW, I see in your winnt.sif you have:

[systemRestore]

DisableSR = 1

CreateFirstRunRp = 0

It isn't in ref.chm but I've seen it posted before here and elsewhere, does it actually work?

It does work.

[friedchicken]

thanks everyone.

i just took out filesystem=*

yes, shindo is correct. i didnt use autopartition 1. kept it as autopartition 0