XP Unattended install to D: drive

[Kaiwen]

I'm trying to create an Windows XP unattended install to my D: partition. I'm testing this in VirtualPC 2004.

My partitions are preformatted as follows:

C: 2gb FAT16 DOS partition with

D: 16gb NTFS Windows XP partition

E: 64gb NTFS Data partition

If I boot from my Windows CD, it stops and prompts me to select a partition to install. Since I want to specify the partition beforehand, I modified my AUTORUN.INF to this:

OPEN=\i386\winnt.exe /s:\i386 /t:D /u:\i386\winnt.sif

ICON=SETUP.EXE,0

However, when I boot with the above, setup reports that it can't find a partition with sufficient space, and aborts. Is this because WINNT.EXE can't handle NTFS partitions?

How can I acomplish what I'm trying to do?

Lee Kaiwen

[Kaiwen]

Update:

I was using Partion Magic 8 to set up the partitions; apparently WINNT.EXE doesn't recognize PQM's NTFS formatting -- it reports "unknown" formats for the partitions.

So I let Windows setup format the partitions, then tried again. It recognizes the formats now, but still stops to prompt for a destination directory. Why?

Kaiwen

[wolfshade]

U might want to put an entry like:

[unattended]   ...   TargetPath=\Windows   ...

in u're answer file.