Hi! First off thanks to everyone for their support. I have a Fujitsu Simens laptop but my disk CD drive is broken. Have tried to boot from my XP CD from an external disk drive but i get the NTDETECT failed error. So installing from a USB key is my last resort (although i will try the ram method) I have used the latest version of WinSetupFromUSB. I have XP MCE SP3. I have attached the log file. However when I reboot, i only get a GRUB4DOS commandline. (booting works fine) I went back and edited the first boot command to put errorcheck on and this is what i get : configfile /menu.lst Error 11 : Unrecognised device string, or you omitted the required DEVICE part which should lead the filename. I opened a commandline and entered the following: >> root (hd0,0) filesystem is NTFS, partition type 0x07 >> configfile /menu.lst Error 15: File not found Anyone have any tips? Here is my WinSetupFromUSB.log : 2009/11/12 19:17:14- WinSetupFromUSB 0.2.3 started 2009/11/12 19:17:14- OS: WIN_XP Architecture type: X86 ServicePack: Service Pack 3 OS Language: 0409 2009/11/12 19:17:14- Getting USB drives information 2009/11/12 19:17:14- Found USB Physical Disk: CBM Flash Disk USB Device -- \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 2009/11/12 19:17:14- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #0 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Found USB Logical Disk: D: File system: NTFS Bootable: -1 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #1 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Target drive selected- D: 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Drive letter of the active partition in selected disk- D: 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Total target size avialable- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Total source size- 0 MB 2009/11/12 19:17:15- Target space available- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:17:35- Windows source selected- 2009/11/12 19:17:35- Source version- 2009/11/12 19:17:35- Service Pack- 2009/11/12 19:17:35- AMD64 flag- 0 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Total source size- 538.6 MB 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Target space available- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Windows source selected- E: 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Source version- Windows XP Professional 2009/11/12 19:18:22- Service Pack- Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 2009/11/12 19:18:22- AMD64 flag- 0 2009/11/12 19:18:23- Getting USB drives information 2009/11/12 19:18:23- Found USB Physical Disk: CBM Flash Disk USB Device -- \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 2009/11/12 19:18:23- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #0 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Found USB Logical Disk: D: File system: NTFS Bootable: -1 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #1 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Target drive selected- D: 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Drive letter of the active partition in selected disk- D: 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Total target size avialable- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Total source size- 538.6 MB 2009/11/12 19:18:24- Target space available- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:18:24- RMPrepUSB launched 2009/11/12 19:18:55- RMPrepUSB closed 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Getting USB drives information 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Found USB Physical Disk: CBM Flash Disk USB Device -- \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Found USB Logical Disk: D: File system: NTFS Bootable: -1 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #1 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Target drive selected- D: 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Drive letter of the active partition in selected disk- D: 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Total target size avialable- 1980 MB 2009/11/12 19:19:00- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:19:01- Total source size- 538.6 MB 2009/11/12 19:19:01- Target space available- 1980 MB 2009/11/12 19:19:24- Removing TEMP folder 2009/11/12 19:19:24- Checking if grub4dos is installed properly 2009/11/12 19:19:24- grub4dos BS/MBR and files are NOT installed properly 2009/11/12 19:19:24- Installing grub4dos BS/MBR and files 2009/11/12 19:19:24- Backing up MBR of disk #1 2009/11/12 19:19:24- C:\WinSetupFromUSB\files\grub4dos\grubinst.exe -s=mbrdisk1-20091112-191713.dat -t (hd1) 2009/11/12 19:19:26- Backed up MBR of disk #1 2009/11/12 19:19:26- Backing up BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:28- Backed up BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:28- Checking for grldr string in BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:30- Saved BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:31- Grub4dos bootsector not found 2009/11/12 19:19:31- Checking for grldr string in MBR of disk #1 2009/11/12 19:19:33- Saved MBR of disk #1 2009/11/12 19:19:35- Grub4dos MBR not found 2009/11/12 19:19:35- Installing grub4dos bootsector to (hd1,0) 2009/11/12 19:19:35- C:\WinSetupFromUSB\files\grub4dos\grubinst.exe (hd1,0) 2009/11/12 19:19:35- Launching fsutil volume dismount D: 2009/11/12 19:19:39- Checking for grldr string in BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:41- Saved BootSector of disk #1 partition #0 2009/11/12 19:19:42- Grub4dos bootsector found 2009/11/12 19:19:42- Copying grldr 2009/11/12 19:19:42- Copying menu.lst 2009/11/12 19:19:42- Copying default 2009/11/12 19:19:42- grub4dos installed 2009/11/12 19:19:44- DOSNET.INF parsed, 117 files for ~BT folder 2009/11/12 19:19:44- E:\I386\disk1---> C:\WinSetupFromUSB\TEMP\$WIN_NT$.~BT\disk101 2009/11/12 19:19:51- Preparing ~BT folder completed 2009/11/12 19:19:51- Launching MkMigrateInf3.cmd 2009/11/12 19:19:54- Adding lines for binifix5.cmd and start64.exe 2009/11/12 19:19:54- Preparing ~BT folder and boot files 2009/11/12 19:19:54- Preparing ~LS folder 2009/11/12 19:20:00- Preparing BOOT.INI 2009/11/12 19:20:00- Preparing winsetup.lst 2009/11/12 19:20:00- Copy started 2009/11/12 19:20:51- E:\I386\EULA.TXT---> D:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\I386\EULA.TXT 2009/11/12 19:20:51- ERROR!!!--- not copied:E:\I386\EULA.TXT 0 fil(er) copied. 2009/11/12 19:25:51- E:\I386\AUTOCHK.EXE---> D:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\I386\AUTOCHK.EXE 2009/11/12 19:25:51- ERROR!!!--- not copied:E:\I386\AUTOCHK.EXE 0 fil(er) copied. 2009/11/12 19:25:51- E:\I386\AUTOFMT.EXE---> D:\$WIN_NT$.~LS\I386\AUTOFMT.EXE 2009/11/12 19:25:51- ERROR!!!--- not copied:E:\I386\AUTOFMT.EXE 0 fil(er) copied. 2009/11/12 19:34:23- Copying completed. Took: 862.495403186718 seconds 2009/11/12 19:34:23- Fixing unattended section in winnt.sif 2009/11/12 19:34:23- setupORG.exe not found, replacing the original file 2009/11/12 19:34:24- OEMPreinstall found, editing presetup.cmd 2009/11/12 19:34:24- Removing duplicate entries in boot.ini 2009/11/12 19:34:48- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:34:48- Total source size- 0 MB 2009/11/12 19:34:48- Target space available- 1980 MB 2009/11/12 19:34:48- Getting USB drives information 2009/11/12 19:34:49- Found USB Physical Disk: CBM Flash Disk USB Device -- \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1 2009/11/12 19:34:49- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #0 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Found USB Logical Disk: D: File system: NTFS Bootable: -1 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Found USB Disk Partition: Disk #1, Partition #1 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Target drive selected- D: 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Drive letter of the active partition in selected disk- D: 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Total target size avialable- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Checking sizes... 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Total source size- 0 MB 2009/11/12 19:34:50- Target space available- 1432 MB 2009/11/12 19:40:16- ---------------------------------Program quited----------------------------------------------- Apprently 3 files were not copied : AUTOFMT.EXE, AUTOCHK.EXE and EULA.TXT. (I deleted all other lines regarding copying) Thanks!