stepe

Hi, thanx 4 Ur instructions BUT it didn't work 4 me Nevertheless, I finally made it! I've an 1 GB stick with syslinux bootmenue, with pe2usb I finally got xppe running. Then I tired the cmdcons...it took me almost a day So finally I had to format my stick with the HP-tool as fat16. Then I backed up the bootsector with mkbt as bootsect.dat. I tried diffrent versions of the ntldr. Only the ntldr from a sp2 patched XP cd worked. ntldr & ntdetect.com have 8/03/04 timestamp ntldr is 246 kb and ntdetect is 47 kb Next steps: copy the backed up bootsector to cmdcons. Copy setupldr.bin from cmdcons to root and rename it to cmldr Edit cmdcons/bootsect.dat with hexedit: change NTLDR to CMLDR Copy boot.ini to root: Add C:\cmdcons\bootsect.dat="XP-CMDCONS" /cmdcons So the bootsector loads NTLDR with boot.ini bootmenue. The menu loads the modified bootsector.dat in cmdcons which loads the setupldr.bin from cmdcons. As I took the orignal bootsect.dat, it didn't start the console but only returned to the menue. So I have these files/folders in root: -------------- cmdcons 11/24/06 0 minint 11/24/06 0 boot.ini 11/24/06 235 cmldr 8/03/04 262448 NTDETECT.COM 8/03/04 47564 ntldr 8/03/04 251184 6 File(s) 561,431 bytes That`s it! If you also copy the minint e.g. or another xp installation folder to root, you can logon to this without password, regardless the registry settings of the main xp-installation of the computer! set shows that AllowAllPaths is true by default and You can set AllowRemovableMedia to true... Best Regards, Steph