Marztabator Posted August 22, 2003 Posted August 22, 2003 Here's how the appropriate section of winnt.sif is set-up:;SetupMgrTag[Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes"[Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=No UnattendSwitch="no" WaitForReboot="No" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\NVidia4523"[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1I get to choose the partition where I want XP installed, but it doesn't give me the option to choose FAT32 or NTFS, or allow me to format the partition - it just goes ahead with the install! I feel this is a rather uncomfortable way to go along with. Aren't there any other switches that I could utilise to solve this problem?
Aaron Posted August 29, 2003 Posted August 29, 2003 You will have to first delete the existing partition and recreate it to be given the formatting and file system options.
Marztabator Posted August 30, 2003 Author Posted August 30, 2003 Which existing partition do you mean exactly? I currently have about 10 different partitions.
Aaron Posted August 30, 2003 Posted August 30, 2003 The partition you plan to install Windows XP onto, delete and recreate. None of the other partition will be affected, and the partition deleted&recreated will have the same size as it was previously.
Marztabator Posted August 30, 2003 Author Posted August 30, 2003 Sounds to me like I should be doing this with something else other than FDISK... is this so? Should I be using Partition Magic or something?Sorry if I'm annoying you somewhat here, but I feel genuinely stuck.(For the record, the XP partition was created with FDISK but it was in FAT32. I assumed I would get the change to reformat it and change it to NTFS during Text-mode Setup but this was not the case. I daren't delete it through FDISK as this would mean having to delete nearly all the other partitions first (I say nearly, since it isn't C: that XP is on).)
Aaron Posted August 30, 2003 Posted August 30, 2003 hmm you never need to use FDISK at all, you can delete and recreate partitions in text-mode Windows Setup.
Marztabator Posted August 30, 2003 Author Posted August 30, 2003 Really? I've never done anything like that before on that setup.When you delete a partition though, doesn't it lose its position in the partitions table? Wouldn't it end up receiving a new drive letter?
Aaron Posted August 30, 2003 Posted August 30, 2003 No it doesn't, I've deleted the C:\ Partion when I had D:\ and E:\ partitions and C:\ gets reallocated to the deleted partition when recreated.
Corvette Posted August 30, 2003 Posted August 30, 2003 Marztabator, Did you notice the "Unattended XP CD" sub-forum?
amdmstf Posted August 31, 2003 Posted August 31, 2003 Well that is one of the WindowsXP Setup problem
DaveXP Posted August 31, 2003 Posted August 31, 2003 Marztabator, Did you notice the "Unattended XP CD" sub-forum?:modpolice: :modpolice: Be nice and correct his error but dont be NASTE
Elkhound Posted September 1, 2003 Posted September 1, 2003 Don't know if this will help you, but I was trying to format my external hard drive in FAT32 from windows (XP Pro) and ran into this problem as well. I ended up finding out that NTFS will be the default file system if the partition is 32gb or greater...Since I needed to be able to read files from this external drive in older Windows 98 & ME systems, I formatted a smaller partition in FAT32 and the rest in NTFS.Moral of the story: Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional can format FAT32 volumes up to 32 GB only. Use NTFS to format larger volumes.(Here's the LINK to the Microsoft.com tech article that discusses it.Good luck!
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