Specifying the target partition for unattended install of Vista

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When you create an answer file for unattended installation of Vista, you must specify which partition and which disk drive you want to install the operating system onto. You normally do this by configuring the following component:

Microsoft-Windows-Setup\InstallImage\OSImage\InstallTo

Normally, you configure the settings named DiskID and PartitionID for this component. But if you simply want to install Vista on the first partition of your first hard drive, leave these settings blank and instead go to the following component:

Microsoft-Windows-Setup\InstallImage\OSImage

and set the value of InstallToAvailablePartition to True.

For more information on deploying Vista, see my series of articles titled Deploying Vista right here on WindowsNetworking.com.

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Mitch Tulloch is Senior Editor of both WServerNews and FitITproNews and is a widely recognized expert on Windows Server and cloud technologies. He has written more than a thousand articles and has authored or been series editor for over 50 books for Microsoft Press and other publishers. Mitch has also been a twelve-time recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in the technical category of Cloud and Datacenter Management. He currently runs an IT content development business in Winnipeg, Canada.

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