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plain and simple, i just want it to use all the driver, but for some silly reason it won't. anyone? :}

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
			</DiskConfiguration>

from what i understand the extend function should extend the partition to the whole of the drive. I've also used it with it set to false and no joy

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I had a similar problem, and a guy in this forum to told me to change it from:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

into:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>False</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

and the explenation was that since I already expanded it in the "CreatePartition" section, no need to do it in the "ModifyPartition" section.... worked for me! Hope it helps...

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into:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>False</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

and the explenation was that since I already expanded it in the "CreatePartition" section, no need to do it in the "ModifyPartition" section.... worked for me! Hope it helps...

That's right. It's realy a shame that the docs of WAIK a such a piece of cr.... partly!

Nearly everybody I know - and me, too, was caught by this DiskConfiguration trap. :thumbup

Note:

If you've just one partition on your Disk and all you wanna do is formating the partition before installing Vista use the following code in your AutoUnattend.xml:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>Vista-OS</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
						</ModifyPartition>
					 </ModifyPartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk>
				</Disk>
				<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
			</DiskConfiguration>

Martin

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thanks guys, but i've tried both of your methods to no avail, here is my full unattend file. the driver installs fine, but the setup don't seem to use any of the "Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE & Microsoft-Windows-Setup" component settings, but saying that, it will set the virtual page size.

what am i doing wrong?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
	<settings pass="windowsPE">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<SetupUILanguage>
				<UILanguage>en-uk</UILanguage>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
			</SetupUILanguage>
			<InputLocale>0809:00000809</InputLocale>
			<SystemLocale>en-uk</SystemLocale>
			<UILanguage>en-uk</UILanguage>
			<UserLocale>en-uk</UserLocale>
			<UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<ComplianceCheck>
				<DisplayReport>Never</DisplayReport>
			</ComplianceCheck>
			<Diagnostics>
				<OptIn>false</OptIn>
			</Diagnostics>
			<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
				</Disk>
			</DiskConfiguration>
			<PageFile>
				<Path>%windir%\Pagefile.sys</Path>
				<Size>1024</Size>
			</PageFile>
			<UserData>
				<ProductKey>
					<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
					<Key>12345-12345-12345-12345-12345</Key>
				</ProductKey>
				<AcceptEula>true</AcceptEula>
				<FullName>Name</FullName>
				<Organization>Org</Organization>
			</UserData>
			<EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall>
			<EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
			<Restart>Restart</Restart>
			<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<settings pass="offlineServicing">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<DriverPaths>
				<PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="GX280AudioDriver">
					<Credentials>
						<Domain>wan</Domain>
						<Password>password</Password>
						<Username>vista</Username>
					</Credentials>
					<Path>\\Bw-wds-01\REMINST\Images\Out-of-Box Drivers\GX280Audio\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP</Path>
				</PathAndCredentials>
			</DriverPaths>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://bw-wds-01/reminst/images/install.wim#Windows Vista ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

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AFAIK there is no special UK-Language-Pack you could use for this setting. Check out the Document "Supported Language Packs" in Unattended.chm.

Replace UK through US, you should be able to change the keyboard layout. But I'm not 100% sure...

Martin

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AFAIK there is no special UK-Language-Pack you could use for this setting. Check out the Document "Supported Language Packs" in Unattended.chm.

Replace UK through US, you should be able to change the keyboard layout. But I'm not 100% sure...

Martin

mainly having a problem with the disk config, not sure what i'm doing wrong

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Could you please tell me what the result of this unattended is? Does it give you an error during setup or what happens exactly?

The disk configuration in your case, should look like this:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>False</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

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Could you please tell me what the result of this unattended is? Does it give you an error during setup or what happens exactly?

The disk configuration in your case, should look like this:

<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>False</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Order>1</Order>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
</DiskConfiguration>

Martin

I've just tried that, and no good.

I want to get rid of the language option at the beginning of the install, disk configuration, virtual page size, and install the audio driver. so far it only does the page size and audio driver.

what the hell i'm i doing that is so silly that i cant even see it.

below is the last version of my XML file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
	<settings pass="windowsPE">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<SetupUILanguage>
				<UILanguage>en-uk</UILanguage>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
			</SetupUILanguage>
			<InputLocale>0809:00000809</InputLocale>
			<SystemLocale>en-uk</SystemLocale>
			<UILanguage>en-uk</UILanguage>
			<UserLocale>en-uk</UserLocale>
			<UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
			</DiskConfiguration>
			<PageFile>
				<Path>%windir%\Pagefile.sys</Path>
				<Size>1024</Size>
			</PageFile>
			<EnableFirewall>true</EnableFirewall>
			<EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
			<Restart>Restart</Restart>
			<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
			<LogPath>C:\Log</LogPath>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<settings pass="offlineServicing">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-PnpCustomizationsNonWinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<DriverPaths>
				<PathAndCredentials wcm:action="add" wcm:keyValue="GX280AudioDriver">
					<Credentials>
						<Domain>bw-wan</Domain>
						<Password>Password1</Password>
						<Username>bw-wan\vista</Username>
					</Credentials>
					<Path>\\Bw-wds-01\REMINST\Images\Out-of-Box Drivers\GX280Audio\SMAXWDM\W2K_XP</Path>
				</PathAndCredentials>
			</DriverPaths>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<settings pass="specialize">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<InputLocale>0809:00000809</InputLocale>
			<SystemLocale>en-uk</SystemLocale>
			<UILanguage>en-uk</UILanguage>
			<UserLocale>en-uk</UserLocale>
			<UILanguageFallback>en-us</UILanguageFallback>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://bw-wds-01/reminst/images/install.wim#Windows Vista ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

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Well, if you get a prompt with the language option, than you should change en-UK to en-US. This has nothing to do with the Diskconfiguration? Or have I missunderstood anything?

Martin

no you have understood prefectly. the thing is that i get prompted for language selection and disk config, and i dont want to see them.

any other ideas?

Chris

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ok, i'm now forgetting all the over crap. i just what this to work and it wont!!!!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
	<settings pass="windowsPE">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<DiskConfiguration>
				<WillShowUI>Never</WillShowUI>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Active>true</Active>
							<Extend>false</Extend>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>
			</DiskConfiguration>
			<EnableFirewall>true</EnableFirewall>
			<EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork>
			<Restart>Restart</Restart>
			<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
			<LogPath>C:\Log</LogPath>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://bw-wds-01/reminst/images/install.wim#Windows Vista ENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi" />
</unattend>

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try this...

<UseConfigurationSet>true</UseConfigurationSet>
			<DiskConfiguration>
				<Disk>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Type>Extended</Type>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
						</CreatePartition>
					 </CreatePartitions>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition>
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>Operating System</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Active>true</Active>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
				</Disk>

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no you have understood prefectly.

...

any other ideas?

Chris

Well Chris,

I hadn't got it perfectly. Don't expect to much from a stupid German Kraut. :lol:

However, now I've got it!

Please add the following code to the Windows-Setup section of your AutoUnattend.xml:

<ImageInstall>
	 <OSImage>
		   <InstallTo>
				 <DiskID>0</DiskID>
				 <PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
		   </InstallTo>
		   <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
		   <InstallToAvailablePartition>false</InstallToAvailablePartition>
	 </OSImage>
</ImageInstall>

Explanation:

The Diskconfiguration part is ok now on your AutoUnattend.xml. The reason why setup is asking you where to install Vista is, that you have not "told" so far where to install it. The OSImage/InstallTo MUST be insert into AutoUnattend.xml to get Vista Setup unattended. Sorry, that I didn't recognized this in your first Autounattend.xml post allready.

Germans allways do it in the extra time... :thumbup

Now let it rock!

Cheers, Chris!

Martin

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it works, thank god!!!! i love you my crazy german friend

Here is my working code for everyone else to view/steal/use!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<unattend xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:unattend">
	<settings pass="windowsPE">
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-Setup" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<DiskConfiguration>
				<Disk wcm:action="add">
					<CreatePartitions>
						<CreatePartition wcm:action="add">
							<Order>1</Order>
							<Extend>true</Extend>
							<Type>Primary</Type>
						</CreatePartition>
					</CreatePartitions>
					<ModifyPartitions>
						<ModifyPartition wcm:action="add">
							<Format>NTFS</Format>
							<Label>SYSTEM</Label>
							<Letter>C</Letter>
							<Order>1</Order>
							<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
							<Active>true</Active>
						</ModifyPartition>
					</ModifyPartitions>
					<DiskID>0</DiskID>
					<WillWipeDisk>true</WillWipeDisk>
				</Disk>
				<WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI>
			</DiskConfiguration>
			<WindowsDeploymentServices>
				<ImageSelection>
					<InstallTo>
						<DiskID>0</DiskID>
						<PartitionID>1</PartitionID>
					</InstallTo>
				</ImageSelection>
			</WindowsDeploymentServices>
		</component>
		<component name="Microsoft-Windows-International-Core-WinPE" processorArchitecture="x86" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" language="neutral" versionScope="nonSxS" xmlns:wcm="http://schemas.microsoft.com/WMIConfig/2002/State" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
			<SetupUILanguage>
				<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
			</SetupUILanguage>
			<InputLocale>0409:00000409</InputLocale>
			<SystemLocale>en-US</SystemLocale>
			<UILanguage>en-US</UILanguage>
			<UserLocale>en-US</UserLocale>
		</component>
	</settings>
	<cpi:offlineImage cpi:source="wim://bw-wds-01/REMINST/Images/install.wim#WindowsVistaENTERPRISE" xmlns:cpi="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:cpi"/>
</unattend>

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