Two partitions in Unattended.

[EscapeYourMind]

Hello all.  Great website, extremely informative!

I was wondering though. I\'ve been working on my slipstreamed win2k cd and I was wondering how to create two partitions in unattended mode.  From looking at the documents from MS I can only see that in unattended mode windows will create one full partition on the drive and format/install on that.  However I need to create two partitons on the drive using unattended mode.  If someone knows how this can be done it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

[gosh]

In win2k you cannot do this.

WinXP gets around this issue by adding new tools!

You can use a new xp tool called diskpart.exe (it\'s a command line tool).  You can call this program through a batch file to repartition or format ANY drive.  WinPE has this tool and is ideal for repartitioning and formating.  In fact, i believe winpe has a batch file that shows you how to script repartitioning and formating...

So, the only way to do this is get the xp tool diskpart and find some scripts to repartition.  Or download winpe and look for the script to do it.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?...B;en-us;q300415

-gosh

[EscapeYourMind]

Hmmm.. so would it be possible to use that tool for a fresh install, like put it on my win2k cd and if theres a way, call that batch file to run first, partition my drive the way I need it, then continue on with win2k install and have it install onto one of the partitions I designate?

Well if worst comes to worst I guess that will have to be the only attended part of my install.  Good thing its at the beginning.

[Anonymous]

try using norton gdisk, thats a command line based tool and will do exactly what you want, it comes as part of the ghost corporate version..i call this to partition and format my drives from a batch file when installing XP , which sounds like exactly what you want.