Converterting whole drive from fat16 to NTFS?

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Guest

We have an XP unattend instllation and a 2k unattend installation started
with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, mapping a drive to our unattend shares and kicking
off the WINNT.EXE. They work flawlessly except for the XP one. The XP
installation completes however unlike the 2k version, the XP one doesn't
convert the WHOLE drive to NTFS (80 gig drive), it only converters the
initial 2 gig partition. I'm racking my brain on this problem and don't know
where else to turn. The 2k unattend installation has the same initial 2 gig
partition but during the conversion converts the entire drive (80 gig) to
NTFS. I have read that XP will converter Fat16 to NTFS just like 2k does,
supposedly even during the unattended installation but again...I'm at a loss
as to why it's not actually doing so. I'm left hen the XP unattend is done
with a useless 2 gig primary partition and 75 gig (or so) unformatted
partition.

Here is a copy of my unattend.txt file. Am I missing something?

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=0
MsDosInitiated="1"
UnattendedInstall=Yes

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=yes
TargetPath=\Windows
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
ExtendOEMPartition=1
Repartition=no
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
AutoActivate = Yes

OEMPnPDriversPath="install\INIC;install\ivid2;install\IVID;install\Usb2;install\Soundmax;install\nvidia3;install\ADI;install\ATI;install\broadcom;install\ivid3"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=XXXXXX
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1
Autologon=yes
AutoLogonCount=1

[GuiRunOnce]
"c:\install\runonce.bat"

[UserData]
FullName="xxxxxxxxx"
OrgName="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
ComputerName=
ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

[Display]
BitsPerPel=16
Xresolution=800
YResolution=600
Vrefresh=70

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=1
AreaCode=989
LongDistanceAccess=9

[Branding]
BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

AutoConfig=1 Home_Page=HTTP://xxxx...l [WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0
 
M

Mark L. Ferguson

XP is copying setup files to the 2 gig partition, and cannot then delete it.
You would have to start from an unpartitioned drive.


rafdaddy77 said:
We have an XP unattend instllation and a 2k unattend installation started
with a DOS 6.22 boot disk, mapping a drive to our unattend shares and
kicking
off the WINNT.EXE. They work flawlessly except for the XP one. The XP
installation completes however unlike the 2k version, the XP one doesn't
convert the WHOLE drive to NTFS (80 gig drive), it only converters the
initial 2 gig partition. I'm racking my brain on this problem and don't
know
where else to turn. The 2k unattend installation has the same initial 2
gig
partition but during the conversion converts the entire drive (80 gig) to
NTFS. I have read that XP will converter Fat16 to NTFS just like 2k does,
supposedly even during the unattended installation but again...I'm at a
loss
as to why it's not actually doing so. I'm left hen the XP unattend is
done
with a useless 2 gig primary partition and 75 gig (or so) unformatted
partition.

Here is a copy of my unattend.txt file. Am I missing something?

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=0
MsDosInitiated="1"
UnattendedInstall=Yes

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=yes
TargetPath=\Windows
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
ExtendOEMPartition=1
Repartition=no
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
AutoActivate = Yes

OEMPnPDriversPath="install\INIC;install\ivid2;install\IVID;install\Usb2;install\Soundmax;install\nvidia3;install\ADI;install\ATI;install\broadcom;install\ivid3"

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=XXXXXX
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1
Autologon=yes
AutoLogonCount=1

[GuiRunOnce]
"c:\install\runonce.bat"

[UserData]
FullName="xxxxxxxxx"
OrgName="xxxxxxxxxxxx"
ComputerName=
ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

[Display]
BitsPerPel=16
Xresolution=800
YResolution=600
Vrefresh=70

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=1
AreaCode=989
LongDistanceAccess=9

[Branding]
BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

AutoConfig=1 Home_Page=HTTP://xxxx...owsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall] Mode = 0[/QUOTE]
 

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