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Another partition is for another Win 7, Vista or Server 2008, since you are putting only one, one partition is fine. As for the MBR- the program takes care of that, grub4dos MBR is checked if present and if not- installed, all you need to do is to partition and format the USB stick.

That's interesting. Can you perform a quick tests? Did you use PLoP boot manager? Start from USB disk/stick, press key "c" and type: calc *0x475 & 0xFFthen press [ENTER]. What's the output? How many disks do you have connected, including USB ones and card readers even empty ones?

I don't know why that's happening. Most likely the combination BIOS, Windows drivers and USB disk. Do the Win7 setups from the other partitions work?

That remind me of this issue: http://reboot.pro/9076/page__view__findpost__p__123824 http://reboot.pro/9076/page__view__findpost__p__124025 Once in diskpart, replug the USB disk and type rescan. Does it appear now? What's the exact model of the USB disk?

Yes, you can. Use the latest beta version.

Either.

Use EasyBCD to add an entry for XP/ntldr.

You would have to describe what you did to proceed further and what happens when the UFD is not attached. What are contents of boot.ini on the internal disk?

Do not select the third option, try the options below it. Third option is just a separator.By the way I feel a bit uncomfortable answering questions about a program which simply copy-pasted all the work done by several members in this forum, put it in another name without mentioning a single word.

Now please find and attach nLite.cmd.

Open up winnt.sif in ~BT folder. Remove any sensitive information such as serial number, IP addresses etc. Attach it with your next post. Zip it or rename if need to. FYI: http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/ http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/19/ http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/18/ http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/81/

What are contents of $OEM$ folder? Is there another batch file? What are its contents? What are contents of GUIRunOnce section in winnt.sif? You may even post the entire winnt.sif hiding any sensitive information in it. Last Session.ini, Last Session_U.ini and autorun.inf do not matter, the problem if my guess is correct is one of the USB_multiboot limitations- contents of $OEM$ folder are not copied and thus cannot be used, thus the command in GUIRunOnce if it's in $OEM$ folder.

What are contents of source.log? Has it been created at all? That was the purpose of adding echo commands, wasn't it?

Windows Vista and above calculate MountedDevices keys for removable drives in a different way. MkMigrateInf does not work with them. The algorithm calculating the needed values is built in the latest versions of the program, no external program is used.

If I got the question right you don't need any external program, just use the built-in disk management and drive letter reassignment. If you have something else in mind please clarify.

Have you tried WinSetupFromUSB 1.0 beta 7? Did you try the firadisk or winvblock methods? My guess is that you used usb_multiboot, usb_prepare or WinSetupFromUSB 0.x.x. version, they would show repair option only if you have installed Windows using them and did not change boot.ini afterwards. The reason Repair doesn't work is that at start of Text mode Setup seeks for Windows installations by reading boot.ini on the local disk and using the arcpath in it, typically rdisk(0)partition(X), first disk according to BIOS boot order. But you boot from USB, rdisk(0) is now your USB disk, there is no Windows there, hence no repair screen. rdisk(1) is where now your Windows is. You may include an extra line in boot.ini on the local disk. Just copy the default line and change rdisk(0) to rdisk(1). Or just try the methods mentioned. And make sure there is no Unattended section in winnt.sif, even an empty one.

How do you install Office 2003 exactly? How is batch.cmd executed? What are the relevant winnt.sif or whatever entries?

Integrate the proper SATA driver in your source or change in BIOS SATA mode to IDE. It's a common problem/question which has been asked and answered numerous times, please do a little search next time.

@Pulento How far did you get, any updates?

Sorry, I am out of town for a few weeks with limited access to internet. Will have a look when come back first days of May if you have not figured it out.

@Pulento Did you try the debug entries below, HD1 part 1 etc., on the screen with black background? I'd also use the latest version, currently 1.0 beta7.

For multiple versions of XP/2003/MediaCentre/2000 use WinSetupFromUSB. Check the pinned topic. Read first post for multiple Vista/7/Server 2008:

This is weird. What did you use to extract WinSetupFromUSB.7z ? Use 7-zip from 7-zip.org some other programs tend to incorrectly extract 7z archives. What Windows version do you use? That's even weirder. Migrate.inf should not be cause for BSOD. MS article suggests: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314830 Try hitting F7 when F2/F6 prompt appears as the article suggests, does it load to the partitioning screen? Can you update BIOS? Can you load BIOS defaults? Does USB HD prepared by 0.2.3 version work? Have you tried it on another hardware?

@daddo1980 I think you have figured it out. Le us know how it goes. @Flashmann Does it work in QEMU? Run the program with the USB HD attached and select only "test in QEMU". Does it load? On real hardware- try renaming on the USB HD \WINSETUP\XP..sp3\I386\migrate.inf to migrate.inf.bak. Does it load?

Yes, same or similar driver. Windows setup also needs it just as regular Windows to be able to fool it and see it as fixed disk.Assuming you have used 1.X versions of the program. 1) Add to I386\txtsetup.sif in the small ISO file in WinSetup directory on the UDF the following: In section [sourceDisksFiles], doesn't matter where exactly in the section add dummy.sys = 1,,,,,,4_,4,1,,,1,4 In [sCSI.Load] add dummy = dummy.sys,4 In [sCSI] : dummy = "USB removable disk as fixed" 2) In WinSetupFromUSB\program directory\files\MULTIpartitionUSBstick\ do makecab dummydisk.sys dummy.sy_ 3) Copy dummy.sy_ to USB Stick\WinSetup\XP....\I386\ You should have prepared the stick on XP/2003 system where you already have similar filter driver running and UDF is seen already as fixed, in order to preserve USB drive letter during setup or it's going to be messy. Alternatively, you may use cdob's approach: Let us know how it goes.