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Thank you for your answer. I'll try again this evening, hower the last time I prepared my USB drive I couldn't start the installation step 1 again, it just showed me the hal.dll error. I'm installing from a USB stick, a 4Gb "patriot memory" ( http://www.patriotmemory.com/products/deta...646&type=11 ). I also have another question : it's written almost everywhere to not unplug the USB stick until windows logon. However, if I have to change the boot.ini file, I'll therefore have to remove the stick, modify the boot.ini file, and put it back on the computer. Is this correct or did I miss another step ?

Hello, I'm trying to install Windows XP SP3 Pro from a USB drive into a little computer, which is aimed to host some databases. It is composed of a 500Gb SATA2 HDD. It also has card readers. It has never been used before, and the HDD was not yet formated. Unfortunately, I first tried to install winXP using this guide : http://myeeeguides.wordpress.com/2008/11/1...sb-flash-drive/ I therefore haven't read the FAQ of this forum, and I missed this step : I haven't disabled the card readers, and I installed Windows XP after partitioning my HDD in 3 partitions, without rebooting. I remember that partitions got letters like F, G, E, or something near that. After TXT install, I rebooted, and got hal.dll error. I started searching, and found this forum. I tried a couple of tips you gave to other guys, the first one being to change boot.ini. Unfortunately, I was not able to know how was the configuration of my partitions, and I still got hal.dll. As modifying boot.ini didn't work, I tried other methods found there, like USB_Multiboot. I still got hal.dll. I wanted to try other methods, but it seems quite complicated to me (e.g. http://www.msfn.org/board/install-xp-usb-a...sb-t121446.html )... I think this is also because I'm french and both understanding the language and the method becomes hard ! I also tried to just start again from step 0, but I can't because I now always get hal.dll error So, my questions are : - Is there any way to start again from step 0, so I can delete all partitions, make new ones, reboot, and start a fresh install ? - Is there a way to solve this problem ? Thank you for your answers (and mea culpa for the FAQ question 13...)