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I guess next to try would be PLoP & firadisk method: Sorry, long way to go, you've got some weird BIOS, you'd have to figure out what works best on these machines. BTW- what happens with 0.2.3 & PLoP?

In the small ISO file and in the \WINSETUP\XP...\I386 folder.

Moving forward, slowly, but moving , AVG and Ikarus replied, awaiting Sophos, Symantec and the troublesome McAfee.

If you skip that file does it continue or throws another error?

@LordX Thanks, will clarify it in the first post. @akira181 Can you zip and attach txtsetup.sif from your source? @Jotto Using PLoP may lead to issues like this. Sorry, I have no solution for now if this happens.

Does anyone have a registered McAfee AV? Would someone contact them and report for a false positive? It's probably 10th email going back and forth and they keep asking me for registration email to move further on, although I keep explaining in those semi-automatic emails what the case is. Next I get referred to a web page to submit the sample, which web page doesn't re-analyse it as most other AV vendors did, but rather scans it using current signatures and supposedly gets detected. Then I reply with the results to the semi-automatic email, where yet another guy puts his name on top of a similar answer and asks me again for registration At least there is some progress, 19/43 a few days ago, now 13/43: http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=aa68d27eeff208672bd0494a37ddf6f662135a965bb3387378cf43d605e54671-1288757982

Did you try on 2 PCs? First one is the slow one, where Setup worked. Second one is Samsung S2, what happens on it? Did I get it right? PLoP doesn't work always.

Is the removable bit flipped on this USB stick so Windows recognises it as a fixed disk? If not- windows would use only the first partition. Search the subforum for removable bit for clarification. Search the subforum for alternative ways to have multiple 7/Vista setups in one partition.

Go figure... http://analysis.avira.com/samples/

It turned out quite tricky to contact and report for a false positive some AV vendors. Currently at virustotal 19/43 still detect setup.exe as a virus: http://www.virustotal.com/file-scan/report.html?id=aa68d27eeff208672bd0494a37ddf6f662135a965bb3387378cf43d605e54671-1288529982 Just got a response from Panda AV, waiting for the rest 18:

The program did not detect that source is 2000. Have a look around this post how to fix it:

Reported to admin team.

I guess you have used one of the latest WinSetupFromUSB versions. Why did you need to change default grub4dos config files? I see a lot of changes which don't make sense to me why were made.

Nice catch cdob, thanks Also:

Where did it go?It's created in program's temp folder and copied to /winsetup/ folder on the USB stick. But was it created and was it copied...? Such case hasn't been reported yet. Try to run the program again, watch temp folder if the ISO file is created, next watch if it's copied to /winsetup/ folder on the USB stick. Use NTFS, file copy speed will be much faster.

Does the file /winsetup/XPpSP3.ISO exist on the USB stick? Can you zip and attach WinSetupFromUSB.log file from program directory?

Please try to be as detailed as possible.

When you used WinSetupFromUSB which tool did you use and which options you selected in it? What exactly do you do in order to boot from USB?

There are two entries for flash.inf in txtsetup.sif, remove this one: flash.inf = 100,,,,,,,20,0,0 This duplicates would not affect setup from a CD, or using the latest 1.0 beta6 version.

Can you zip and attach txtsetup.sif from ~BT directory?

How many hard drives do you have connected? Do you have any other mass storage device connected, USB card reader, external USB disk/SD card etc. etc.? How do you boot from USB, changing boot order in BIOS or by hitting F12/whatever key and then selecting the USB key? What did you use to prepare the USB stick with windows 7 setup?

This "fix" was for a particular case.What's the issue you have?

What OS is on the laptop is irrelevant, boot happens before OS starts loading. How did you format the USB stick? Using which program and settings? What's the laptop model? What BIOS options you select in order to boot from USB?

Unless you manage to explain what this post have to do with the topic I'll consider it as inappropriate advertising. Link removed.

Does file D:\WinSetupFromUSB\files\winsetup\PyronSetup\I386\setup.ex_ exist? Do you have any antivirus program running?