Friday, August 16, 2013

How to make XP unattended installation CD

Standard installation of XP requires several information's from user. To provide this information automatically we have a created an answer file in our previous article
How to Create Answer File for xp unattended installation
Now in this article I would use this answer file to create an unattended installation cd of XP.
Create a folder named xpcd on c:\ drive

Copy the entire windows XP pro CD

Paste windows XP pro CD in xpcd folder

Now Open My Computer Select folder options from tools menu
In view tabs remove the tick marks from hide extensions form known file types

Go to the folder where you have saved you answer files there would be two file unattended.txt and unattended.udb
Slect the unattended.txt and rename it with winnt.sif

Copy the winnt.sif and past it in c:\xpcd\I386

Don't forget to tick marks back to hide extensions from known file types in folder options after renaming the unattended.txt

  • Now you need iso maker tools download it from here
  • And extract it in a folder
  • And Click on Image WinXP Pro

This tools opens in command prompt and will make xpcd image in c:\ drive

Now open your CD burning software I have used Nero. Choose burn image to disk options

Now select the C:\WXPUNA_EN.ISO image files to burns
Let the nero burn image on CD
Congratulations! you have successfully completed all the necessary steps required in making windows pro unattended CD. Now you can install Windows XP pro in any computer without any user interface from this cd.

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