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Merry Christmas all I have not found a post resolving this issue, if there is my apologies and please point me in the right direction.. i am not able to format/label my target partition of 4 drive of E: or the others as well, I also checked technet but did not find my answer there either.. i believe i am following the AIK chm as shown. I am not looking to wipe and repartition my hd every time as i plan on data storage on part 3 D:\ and i am doing the install from there instead of a dvd. I am however able to work around this with a cmd file but would really like to use my xml here is my stuff.. any ideas would be great thx - <DiskConfiguration> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> - <Disk wcm:action="add"> - <ModifyPartitions> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>true</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Label>Boot</Label> <Order>1</Order> <PartitionID>1</PartitionID> <TypeID>0x27</TypeID> <Format>NTFS</Format> </ModifyPartition> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>C_Drive</Label> <Letter>C</Letter> <Order>2</Order> <PartitionID>2</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>D_Drive</Label> <Letter>D</Letter> <Order>3</Order> <PartitionID>3</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> - <ModifyPartition wcm:action="add"> <Active>false</Active> <Extend>false</Extend> <Format>NTFS</Format> <Label>E_Drive</Label> <Letter>E</Letter> <TypeID /> <Order>4</Order> <PartitionID>4</PartitionID> </ModifyPartition> </ModifyPartitions> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <WillWipeDisk>false</WillWipeDisk> </Disk> </DiskConfiguration> <EnableFirewall>false</EnableFirewall> <EnableNetwork>true</EnableNetwork> <LogPath>D:\Log.Txt</LogPath> <Restart>Restart</Restart> - <ImageInstall> - <OSImage> - <InstallFrom> - <Credentials> <Username>E_Drive</Username> </Credentials> - <MetaData wcm:action="add"> <Value>Windows 7 Ultimate</Value> <Key>/IMAGE/NAME</Key> </MetaData> </InstallFrom> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> - <InstallTo> <DiskID>0</DiskID> <PartitionID>4</PartitionID> </InstallTo> </OSImage> </ImageInstall> - <UpgradeData> <WillShowUI>OnError</WillShowUI> <Upgrade>false</Upgrade> </UpgradeData>

Ok I got it to boot, if it bombs out thats ok @ least the booting is one problem solved

Thanks for the reply Not to be thick headed but I take it you cant just burn it with the same settings as xp it requires an iso of the files first? And if thats the case......... brain freeze........ alright at least I have a start point I can work on the rest.... thx

I dont know if this will work with Vista but i do intend to find out as i just got it, but it does work with XP and have been doing something similar w/variations since 311 I have 3 drives C,D,E. C is Obvious, D is personal storage i.e. games music porn (lol) and E is for recovery,since dos isn't an option i have installed XP on E to initiate a gui unattended to C using winnt32.exe, I use bat's w/alcls, del & deltree (yes it works) to delete all but the ntldr, ntdetect and the boot.ini, not exactly formatting the drive but I've had no trouble I have chosen leave many files on the E for my unattended and use cmdlines.txt to point there as to reduce the amount of files to be copied and increase the installation speed, this also serves well when tweaking the UA as you save on CD\DVD Its not as flashy as Dell or others, its not VMware, its unconventional, but it is simple, and it is essentially the same concept, I know its not the answer to your question, but it might be an alterntive

I've searched the forums, but was not able to find an asnswer I have extracted the Microsoft Corporation.Img and BootCatalog from my toshiba recovery dvd, I set nero for boot DVD using no emulation and Number of loaded sectors to 4 but it doesn't work. I know its not XP but its a no emulation image Are the loaded sector settings different? or can it not be done this way The Problem Vista Newbie Toshiba Sattelite bought secondhand HDD Recovery Utility - Not functional Toshiba gracious enough the send me the recovery DVD's @ 40$ However the preinst4.swm is corrupted, i got a look at the HDD recovery partition and preinst4.swm has been omitted, i am trying make a boot dvd omitting preinst4.swm and try again, but it will not boot Any ideas..... but please do not say call toshiba

I didn't know that was basically the same as the older dos error Not Enough Memory, I only ever ran into that when I created a self extracting file that was to big so I would cut down the size Since all my bat files were pretty small with out a large amount of requested functions I never had this problem and honestly it never occured to me a bat could max the free mem... I've been at this for many years but I work more on cause and effect rather than actual understanding I know I'm rambling... so more to the point what you said made sense in my cmdlines.txt it ran user.cmd in this I used the call function for 1st_boot.cmd and called on another cmd from there not realizing adding the additional functions and then 3 concurrent cmd's was pushing the limitations I made changes to the cmdlines to run each cmd individually so on each exit it will hopefully give a partial reset on the free mem so I might be able to add addtional functions to 1 or more of my cmd's later on I re-inserted my previous changes and I've run the unattended twice without any hitch Many many thanks for your reply cluberti

If this has been posted before my appologies, if so if anyone could point me towards the thread it would be a big help The only change I made last night was adding users in my user.cmd & an entry in my user.reg then to test this out I did my unattended When the Install got to T12 & ran my 1st_boot.cmd to insert lines in runonce I get this SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx Out Of Environment Space Then all my Reg Add lines fail I removed the changes tried it again and got the same error I let the unattended finish & to try to figure out what happened I ran regedit and runonce is there I also checked all permissions and they are as they should be The I ran the .cmd from the a cmd window and got the same error on the 3rd run of the .cmd it ran fine I have run the unatteded 3 times & then tried it from a cmd window with the same results Folks I am completely lost..... any ideas

Thanks FireGeier and Ctrl-X for the replies FireGeier not good with the scripts thats still to advanced for me, but your answer gave me an idea that I had not thought of before and not sure why, I'll try a cmd to delete the entire key and then import mine. If it works fantastic if not well you know. As I figure out how to write the scripts I'll try that. Thanks again guys

When I do the unattended install under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Identities xp puts in a new identity, what i was hoping to do is force my current identity as the main & default so when I open OE all my prefrences and storage folders are set

I can find posts on how to turn OE off or how to fix the identities issue after Xp is installed but I cant find any posts on how to set the identity during an unattended install, is it not possible

I ended up using mouse move option 2 get past the HTML style windows once WinAce is installed I have also figured out why the mouse move option hung up so often, while tweaking the scripts depending on how u ran the script and the progie location u r trying to automate, the name of the active windows changes. I did not catch this @ first, then once u compile the script and run it from RunOnceEx it changes again, once I got this figured out and also made some changes on the WinWaitActive times many of the scripts run without a problem, I still have a few that r bein a pain Oh and nologic thx 4 the reply, if you ever figure out how to work around the mouse move option on the winace html window plz let me kno & I will let u kno if I do

Ok got past the 1st hurdle The language selection screen is picky it seems 2 require all fields on the ControlClick option, I tried it 5 times success each time, heres what works for me WinWaitActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") Send("{Down}") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","Ok","TCorelButton1","Left") I was just missing "Left" My next hurdle is to get past the HTML style window once its installed

YW master_mtz, but I'm not sure 4 what

Run("C:\Wace25.EXE") WinWaitActive("Information") Send("!n") WinWaitActive("Choose Destination Location") Send("C:\WinAce") Send("!n") WinWaitActive("Confirm") Send("{Enter}") WinWaitActive("Confirmation") Send("!y") WinWaitActive("techinfo - Notepad") Send("!fx") I tried this before the Opt & MouseMov WinWaitActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","",5) WinWaitActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") WinWaitActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver") WinActivate("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver") Send("{Enter}") Send("{Tab}") then Send("{Enter}") Send("{Tab 1}") then Send("{Enter}") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","OK","TCorelButton1","") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","Ok","TCorelButton1","") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","ok","TCorelButton1","") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","","TCorelButton1","") ControlClick("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","","TCorelButton1") I also tried several variations on the button text and I forget all the ControlFocus options I tried I am trying to get away from the Opt and the MouseMov section I listed below because it seems to hang thats why I initially didnt think it was working, It hangs alot Opt("WinWaitDelay",100) Opt("WinTitleMatchMode",4) Opt("WinDetectHiddenText",1) Opt("MouseCoordMode",0) WinWait("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") If Not WinActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") Then WinActivate("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") WinWaitActive("Welcome to WinAce-Archiver","") MouseMove(229,219) MouseDown("left") MouseUp("left") Sleep(1000)

Yep I do appreciate the suggestion I tried it with mouse clicks, send, control(Click,Send,Focus,GetFocus), I saw some lines from the forum with spaces in the strings and tried it that way to on all the same options, no luck i tried substituing the ClassID w/ClassNameNN because the ID is static not standard all my strings work without a problem up and to that point, I'd only been creating scripts for a day when i placed the post, and as of this post I am still stuck, i have gone thru and have re-done it all again just in case I misstyped or overlooked something, still cant make it work, and the sad part is; its probably just a simple fix