Steffen,
Thank you. Yes, I created a FAT32 partition to see if this was the case, yet installation still failed. Of course I'll try a few more times now that you said that.
I'm just not convinced that the destination partition must manually be converted to FAT32. I think that's already covered by the default Unattend scripts. I was able to perform REPEAT installations to the same destination drive. After every installation my drive converted to NTFS (unattend.txt, FileSystem=ConvertNTFS). I never had to manually convert back to FAT32 for the next installation. I'm recalling nearly a hundred installations because I was learning how to use Unattended and customize all of the scripts. I never worried about file system type once.
The only thing that has changed is my destination computer. The system board on this new laptop has the SATA controller integrated. I couldn't find a stand-alone SATA driver on Dell's site or on Intel's site; there's only the mobo driver. Even without Unattended I'm in trouble. If I try an F6 installation I don't have a discrete mass storage driver to work with; perhaps I could load the entire mobo driver. As you can imagine, it's getting confusing. F6 isn't my goal. I just want to take advantage of the entire Unattended process that I worked months to customize.
-TKPenharston
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