thundernetbr Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 I've tried dozens of options to make my unattended XP installation disk to allow also repairing corrupted previous installations - with no luck. The only way to make the same disk to work as an effective rpairing tool is when I rename winnt.sif to anything different (which bypasses unattended installations) or mantaining winnt.sif present but modifying the UnattendMode key under [unattended] section, with all parameters possible - also with no luck. Is there any hidden key or even any other way to make the unattended disk to work as a REPAIRING tool AND unattended installation disk ? BTW, I am not talking about installing console recovering, I am talking about being able to show the repairing option when the installation finds a previous (corrupted) Windows directory.Thank you all !--ThundernetBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted November 9, 2006 Share Posted November 9, 2006 The short answer is no a normal unattended cd cannot be used for both unattended installs and a repair.But, you can create a multi-boot CD where on option boots using a winnt.sif and the other option does not use a SIF file. With optimization turned on the only additional size would be the files required for the multi-boot, everything else is the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thundernetbr Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 But, you can create a multi-boot CD where on option boots using a winnt.sif and the other option does not use a SIF file. With optimization turned on the only additional size would be the files required for the multi-boot, everything else is the same.Thanks IcemanND,any hint on how to do this ? It would be enough to me to have a single CD with this option, booting to use WINNT.SIF or not. I believe I'll have to rename WINNT.SIF to anything different so I can bypass it on the 'not-unattended' option, is this right ?--ThundernetBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IcemanND Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 check the multi boot cd/dvd for here at MSFN: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=82 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe K Posted November 10, 2006 Share Posted November 10, 2006 Check out PowerPacker XP http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=126 It's in the Member Contributed Projects section. I've used it to make a disk like you want. Post back if you have questions about using it. The instructions lag the program by a bit! Joe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thundernetbr Posted November 10, 2006 Author Share Posted November 10, 2006 Thank you Joe_K and IcemanND, for the help provided. I'll take a look on these two links. --ThundernetBR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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