I recently created a unattended CD which worked as planned ... except one part. I already had windows xp installed on the current hard drive and instead of prompting me to format the drive or create partitions, it simply created a second instilation of XP. Now, when I boot, I have to choose which OS to boot. I really wanted to install xp by removing the old copy and starting fresh. So, how can I control the text installation, but still automate the GUI installation? make sense? is this possible or no? i tried searching but didn't find anything or didn't look in the right place. thanks in advance!

I think I found what I was looking for under the data section of winnt.sif ...

if I change the autopartion value to 0 it should ask me which drive to install, format options and so on, correct?

Edited September 20, 200619 yr by stuntdawg

Im using this to automaticly remove all other partitions and make one big partition:

[Data]

Autopartition = 1

[unattended]

Repartition = yes

FileSystem = *

[Disk.Config]

Disk1="Disk1.config"

[Disk1.config]

Size1="3000"

PartitionType1="primary"

FileSystem1="ntfs"

Quickformat1="yes[Data]"

I hope this helps someone else :-)

NOTE: THIS WILL NOT MAKE A 3GB PARTITION! IT WILL FILL OUT ALL AVAILABLE SPACE!

are there anyway to make the cd just format c: partition and make a new install without any promt or choice?

so i can just click on 1 button(on the start"click to boot with the CD) to install the whole window without any other things...

Edited September 27, 200619 yr by Vingen

if I change the autopartion value to 0 it should ask me which drive to install, format options and so on, correct?

Autopartition doesn't even need to be there. Remove it altogether but add the following;

[unattended]

Repartition = "No"

You should get options then. You said that everything else worked fine so I'm assuming that all other entries are correct for unattendend installation.