gland9

Something is really strange, (hd0) is the stick, and (rd) is the grub4dos built in ramdisk. Your SSD device is NOT detected by grub4dos! Are you sure you don't need a disconnect/connect or reboot or something the like? Does that thingy has anything "strange" that can be set in BIOS? jaclaz I've tried everything I can think of. So the issue is that the device is detected by windows but not by grub4dos? Is there any simple workaround?

Try another one: chainloader ( [TAB] You are pressing the [TAB] key and NOT the [ENTER] key, aren't you? jaclaz Oh, sorry. My mistake. find ( and chainloader ( return: Possible disks are: hd0 rd

The second command you typed didn't work...but find /boot.ini only returns (hd0,0). I suppose now might be the time to point out it the SSD is sort of a hack....made from a 300x CF card in a SATA adapter...but the adapter supposedly requires no drivers, and the first part of the windows installation works perfectly. The set-up is recognized by the BIOS as a fixed 8GB SATA1 HDD.

Boot.ini from the SSD reads: [boot loader] timeout=1 default=scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS [operating systems] scsi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect Only geometry (hd0) returns a result and it says: drive 0x80(LBA): C/H/S=248/255/63, Sector Count/Size=3984120/512 Partition num: 0, active, filesystem type is fat, partition type 0x06 Partition num: 1, FIlesystem type unknown, partition type 0x21

I am trying to install Windows XP SP3 Home from a 2gb thumb drive onto a Dell Mini 10v using WinSetupFromUSB, and I cannot seem to get to the second part of set-up. Trying to enter GUI-mode setup always returns "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem." Removing the USB drive and attempting to boot from the HD returns "error loading operating system." I tried building the USB installation from three different ISOs (the disc that came from Dell in addition to two XP Home SP3 ISOs I downloaded from the internet), applying fixmbr/fixboot, using bootcfg /rebuild, and still nothing. The drive I'm installing to is a cheap 8gb SSD with nothing else on it and no other partitions. I'm not sure what else to try or what I'm doing wrong. Thanks in advance for any advice.