Automatically Choose destination Drive other than C:

[Star Man]

My hard drive has C: as a primary Drive.

All other drives are in extended area as logical drives.

Drive C: = 2gigs

This is what I call my boot drive.

Autoexec.bat 0 kb

Boot.ini 1 kb

Config.sys 0 kb

IO.sys 0 kb

MSDos.sys 0 kb

NTDetect.com 47kb

Ntldr 245 kb

Windist Folder

These are the only files I keep on it.

Drive D: = 6 gigs

I put clean installs of xp pro.

Drive E:=6 gigs

I put all xp's cd install files and programs that do not require an installation process.

Drive F: = 4 gigs

I use this for the Page File.

Drive X: = Whats left

Extra stuff or Data

During my installations from E: to D:

XP puts temporary files on Drive C:

Message - not enough room on drive C: press enter to select a different drive!

I manual select Drive D: as the destination drive to install too.

This has worked really well for me.

Question? Is there a way to automate the selection of drive D: In the unattend.txt file??????

P.S. Am I the only person that hates CDROM Drives and floppy drives?

[Super-Magician]

As far as I know, Star Man, you cannot set on which drive Windows should install through unattend.txt or WINNT.SIF. You can only set whether Setup repartitions your hard drive structure or automatically selects a partition on which to install.

However, if your D: is blank, Windows should pick that partition if you insert the following lines into the [unattended] section of your unattended setup file.

Repartition=No
FileSystem=*

If you need further help, I would recommend you direct your question to the following forum as this is not the forum for unattended install issues: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=70

Edited August 29, 2006 by Super-Magician

[Star Man]

Xp calls C: the system drive and D: the Boot drive.

I am always logged on to drive D: when I run unattend.bat

The only way to change drive d: is to get out of XP?

Thanks in advance.

[Super-Magician]

Would you please go to the forum to which I linked above? This is the HFSLIP forum. Your issue has nothing to do with this program.

[tain]

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[mazin]

I don't know if my answer could be useful in your situation.

If you install WIN-XP using WINNT32.exe, add this switch to your command line: /tempdrive:D:\

If you install WIN-XP using WINNT.exe, add this switch to your command line: /t:D:\

Those switches are supposed to make Drive D be the place where SETUP extracts its files to.

[Star Man]

Thanks

Windows is installed on Drive D: so it asks me if I want to overwrite \windows directory. Instead of a new fresh install.

[muiz]

Why opened another topic about the same?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=81683

And no offence , but dont you think you need a bigger harddrive?

Edited August 30, 2006 by muiz