warlock554

Ok, I've changed the first boot device from USB-HDD to HDD-0. I redid the TXT part, booted again into USB, tried GUI mode... but without success. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? Please excuse my noobiness.

Ok, so here's my bios configuration: My partition configuration: And my boot.ini file: [boot Loader] Timeout=5 Default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS [Operating Systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Second part of XP Professional setup from hd 1 part 1" /FASTDETECT And yes, I've booted again to start the GUI mode.

Boot.ini points to HD 1. I set my second boot device to HD 1 (the USB being the first), tried again, but got the same error. Tried again with a different version and different installer. No luck...

I first tried a 2 partition configuration and installed XP on the first one. I also tried having just one partition. No hidden partitions. In both cases I got the same result.

Since my CD-ROM seems to be malfunctioning, I've made a bootable USB using the USB Multiboot 10 tool and an unattended XP version. After completing the txt install and attempting to continue with the GUI part of the setup, I get a 'corrupt or missing hal.dll' error. I tried everything: using just one partition, fixing the mbr, fixing the boot.ini, but without any success. There's no hardware issue as I can install linux just fine. Please help.