dglemmons

its a 4gb USB-stick, therefore doesn't that require me to format in NTFS? and no, it is not any of those errors.

Okay, I am running Windows XP pro, and I am simply trying to format and re-install XP pro from USB. I used multiboot 10, chose the HP formatting utility, formatted as NTFS, copied from XPSOURCE to the USB-stick and chose yes for all of the prompts. I then changed the boot sequence to USB first, rebooted, and white on black text pops up saying "disk read error" press ctrl alt del to restart. Sorry, new to this realm of windows configuration. Thanks for your patience.

followed the tutorial letter for letter and receive a disk read error when I boot from usb-stick. any help would be appreciated.