drscouse

Resolved with this very easy solution.. http://weblogzz.blogspot.com/2008/01/insta...-pen-drive.html

Ive spent all weekend readingwhat seems like hundreds of posts.. in an effort to be able to install XP from a usb stick, or even hard drive... onto pc... Ive tried PEtoUSB, Grub4dos, read many articles.. but none seem to give a single step-by-step guide on how to achieve this... Ive been able t o get BARTPE to run from an 8gb fat32 stick, using grub4dos, after reading a few articles, so I thought I may be able to isntall XP by substituting my unattended xp install cd for the BartPE install info on the stick.. as I though Brub4dos would just attempt to load the NTLDR... But no joy.... I also tried to run the winnt.exe manually, got the blue screen intaller.. but it just set there for about 20 minutes identifying hardware.... I just nedd to know Yes it is possible, or no it isnt, before I spend more time trying to do it.... Most of my searching brings back results on actually installing XP to your usb stick, similar to BartPE from the stick.. but I actually want to install XP onto pcs from the usb stick, or usb hard drive... Im quite suprised how difficult it seams...

I use hyperos to multiboot 6 OSes on my main pc... they are all bootable clones of a single install Now I share the pagefile, and some others...but can I move my entire userprofiles (all docs and settings) to another drive, the same location for each OS? I know this can be difficult once OS installed, but I know you can specify new locaiton during unattended.. Is it possible for each OS to utilise the same location.. Each OS may have different apps, but has the same users.... Thanks

Several years ago, I got onto this thread, and used this method to allow me to assign my own drive letters to partitions during unattended XP instal... I remember it worked well.. but just wondered if this was still the preferred method, or is there a newer alternative? Original mapdrive thread I have always had a SYSCACHE drive on another disk, which I call X to which I move the pagefile, temp files etc.. I havent used mapdrive for a couple of years now, but it would be handy again to do this on my new systems.... Thanks

Ive been following these instructions: http://www.digwin.com/view/installing-wind...usb-flash-drive I am having trouble formatring my usb stick... I follow the process using PeToUSB, but get an error on 100% saying: One thing I am thinking is that the drive is a Corsair Voyager GT 8gb, and I dont know if the fact it is 8gb is the problem. Which brings me to another question... Can you partition a usb stick..?? I have a 4gb stick which formatted ok... maybe I could create a 4gb partition on the 8gb stick, is this possible? Ive looked about but cant find aything that would let me do this... Thanks

Thanks for your tips.. I eventually found the one I had seen... http://www.prnwatch.com/prio.html

Ive seen this on a few systmes, but cant seem to find anywhere telling me how to add it... It shows al services and their current state, and you can stop/start them etc.. all from the task manger.. Im sure its a simple tweak, tick box somewhere.. but have searched all the usual places.. Any ideas???

So when is the next one actually available..??? The only fix I found was to have a copy of the i386 dir on the pc, and change the windows install path in the registry to point to it... Its really annoying!!! Just been reading this: I dont integrate IE7, remove any compnents.. the only thing I actually integrate is RyanVMs hotifx pack... thats it, and I still get the popups!!! Maybe I would be better going back to an eariler version, but cant remember which one I first encountered the popups on..!!