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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Maas, Mark
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 11:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Unattended] Setup cannot access the CD co....
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to install Windows 2000 Sp4 and Windows XP Sp2 using
> unattended.
>
> Everything runs fine right up to the copying of files to the hard
drive
> (or so windows 2000 wants me to believe, I can't find them on the
> harddrive though.)
>
> On the next reboot when Windows 2000 Setup continues, it claims it
cannot
> find the Setup files (Actually the full error message is: Setup cannot
> access the CD containing the Windows 2000 installation files)
>
> Same goes when I try to install Windows XP. It can't find it's
> installation files on the second boot as well.
>
> The Z:\os directory is present though. I can access the Windows setup
> files there under DOS.
>
> Another strange thing I've seen is that partioning and formatting
using
> the option "complete drive" only partitions and formats 4Gb.
The way unattended works is it creates a small partition to copy all the
files to and then expands the file system once it starts the install.
You need to make sure you have these in the [Unattended] section of your
unattended text file:
OemPreinstall = Yes
UnattendMode = DefaultHide
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
ExtendOemPartition = 1
> I've tried all of this on two different Dell machines. A GX240 and a
> GX110.
I believe these machines use SATA hard drives, try changing the mode the
BIOS to combination. I'm not sure this will solve your problem, but
worth a shot.
Brad Erdman
University of Maryland
> I searched the archive but was only able to find this:
http://www.mail-
> archive.com/[email protected]/msg03822.html
>
> Which I ofcourse tried, but to no avail.
>
> I've also tried manually partioning and formatting the drive's and
> skipping that part of the bootcd. Also to no avail.
>
> Hope someone can help me,
> Mark Maas
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