Installing windows using unattended and bat files....

but, when I get to machines that have a SCSI drive of some type the computer
crashes midway through the install of XP OS. What is happening and what can I
do to remedy it.

In order to use SCSI drives the driver files must be available to Windows:
all too simple.

Not driver files then no disk is recognised! Install fails. You get upset.
SImple as 1,2,3!

"IEFmember" wrote:

but, when I get to machines that have a SCSI drive of some type the computer
crashes midway through the install of XP OS. What is happening and what can I
do to remedy it.

Thats what I figured. Is there a way that I can stuff the drivers into a cab
file? But the question is will windows search for them or will it just fail
the install again?

"BAR" wrote:

In order to use SCSI drives the driver files must be available to Windows:
all too simple.

Not driver files then no disk is recognised! Install fails. You get upset.
SImple as 1,2,3!

"IEFmember" wrote:

but, when I get to machines that have a SCSI drive of some type the computer
crashes midway through the install of XP OS. What is happening and what can I
do to remedy it.

you'll have to put the location of the drivers on your unattend disk.

Hi, David.

I've never done an unattended install, but this is a common problem in
installing Win2K and WinXP, not just for SCSI but for any HD that use an
interface (SATA, for example - or even ATA-133 back when Win2K first
arrived) for which the drivers are not on the Win2K/XP CD-ROM. This is only
for HDs used as the boot device; HDs used only as a secondary drive for apps
and/or data don't require this treatment. Setup boots from the CD and runs
through its text-based phase, then dies when it tries to boot from the HD
for the first time, because drivers for that HD are missing.

To install WinXP to boot from a SCSI HD, you need to first get the SCSI
drivers on a floppy diskette. Then boot from the WinXP CD-ROM. Early in
the Setup process, while it is detecting your hardware, there will be an
instruction (flashed briefly) to Press F6 if you need to install drivers for
SCSI or another mass storage device. Press F6, then wait while Setup seems
not to notice and continues to copy hundreds of files. When it stops, there
will be instructions for how to use that floppy to install the drivers.
Then Setup will reboot from the SCSI HD for the first time and continue the
GUI phase of Setup.

I'm not sure how this applies to an unattended Setup. I've not seen any way
to get Setup to look anywhere but the floppy drive to find these drivers.
And it's going to be a real problem with newer computers that don't have
floppies.

RC
--
R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP

"IEFmember" wrote in message
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but, when I get to machines that have a SCSI drive of some type the
computer
crashes midway through the install of XP OS. What is happening and what
can I
do to remedy it.