My question is where do I put the unattend.xml file for a custom installation of Windows 7? Yet sounds simple enough, after many years using the sysprep tool during the Windows 2000 and Xp days and now Windows 7 comes with a completely complicated way of doing a custom installation method. My main reason is so I can have the user profiles on another partition instead of the usual default location where windows installs it like c:\documents and settings (for example). I have tried putting the unattend.xml in the root of the cd, but the installation and custom settings I did was more of a miss than a hit needless to say. I don't know if I should rename the .xml file to something else, or put this in the main windows 7 directory like the (i386) where I used to put my winnt file in Windows XP and Windows 2000. I have no idea which one is the main directory for Windows 7; nor can I boot from bios with a flash drive to test more than once for each method. Any suggestions? wainuitech 13-08-2011, 10:40 AM How did you make the unattended file ? Done it many times using WAIK, and the unattended file was simply put onto a USB drive, then when booting the PC it looked and found that first and then the installation proceeded from the DVD, with all the details as per the Unattended file. Only thing is, you have to pull the USB