Pen drive needs to be formatted FAT16 (FAT), which is a problem considering that's not possible with drive over 4gb. Today I installed windows by putting the setup files onto a folder on the HD using a 8gb stick. Then I FAT16 formatted and made bootable a 128mb pen drive and run the setup from the HD. I specified the source and temp dir to use (winnt.exe /S:c:\winxp /T:c:\temp). The trick is after files are copied to temp dir and you are prompted to reboot, you want to get back to into dos as you need to edit the boot.ini placed on your HD. Dos tools attrib and edit will be needed. attrib -r -a -s -h boot.ini <press enter> edit boot.ini <press enter> Change all references of: default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) to default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) attrib +r +a +s +h boot.ini <press enter> Then reboot without pen drive in. Hope this helps. -- Lost101
