MrLinuxGuy

OK, I guess its something that is not easily remedied. I'll try the new method that you pointed me to, and keep you updated, the only reason I didn't follow instructions on in this section of the forums is because a ) I didn't know it existed until after I copied the files , and b ) This old PC I have uses USB... 1.0 Thanks for the fast replies. EDIT: It works! Yay.

Well, I make the USB drive bootable, copied and slipstreamed my XP installation files on my hard drive, then ran winnt32.exe /noreboot, and copied the resulting files on from my C drive to the USB disk, as shown in this post. I followed the instructions precisely. The only problem is XP looking for that CD ROM drive. Oh, and the pc I ran winnt32.exe /noreboot with has a CD-ROM drive. May that be the problem?

Hello everybody, Ive managed to make a USB XP install disc, and i'm trying to install it onto a notebook that has NO CD ROM drive. Unfortunately, the Windows XP setup doesn't want to not have a CD Rom drive. I've tried editing the txtsetup.sif file section as below, but to no avail: [SetupData] SetupSourcePath = "\" MajorVersion = 5 MinorVersion = 1 DefaultPath=\WINDOWS OsLoadOptions = "/fastdetect /noguiboot /nodebug" ForceScsi = 1 ForceDiskClass = 0 ForceCDRom = 0 Architecture = i386 DriverCabName=driver.cab,sp3.cab ProductType = 0 LoadIdentifier = %wks_id% LoadIdentifierCancel = %cancel_id% LoadIdentifierWin9x = %9x_id% BaseVideoLoadId = %wks_id_vga% RequiredMemory = 67108864 Pagefile = 115,250 If there is a way to make the setup not look for the CD ROM drive, I'd be happy to know. Please note that this happens in the text more portion of the setup, right after I press Enter to begin the setup. Thanks!