Unattended Windows XP Install Stops at Deleting Previous Installation

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Published on 2010-04-12T21:02:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 21:03 UTC
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I'm not sure if I'm just not asking Google properly or what, but I can't come up with a good answer to this problem.

We have MDT 2010 setup and have a Task Sequence for refreshing Windows XP machines. It doesn't seem to happen all the time, but a lot of the time when we start a refresh it goes through the normal motions and when it gets into the first part of Windows XP setup (the blue screen) it stops, telling me a Windows installation already exists at that location and I can press L to continue, erasing everything and using that folder.

I've poured over the unattend file and can't find an option that will just delete the old files and keep going, so I'm at a loss. Any ideas?

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