Installation folder in which Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2 will be installed

Many customers used on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 machines other names for the OS folder other than "Windows " (eg. WINNT) and now want to continue to use a different directory name for future OSes.

This was possible back then by using the setting TargetPath in the Unattend.txt.

Starting with Windows Vista / Windows Server 2008, this has changed and you can not change the Windows folder anymore. The hard-coded directory where the operating system is now installed is "Windows ".

In the WAIK documentation the "TargetPath" entry is now addressed as “deprecated”:

Stefan Chivu

Platforms Core Team