stuartw

Just to let you know that I´ve conceded defeat... ..and it takes a lot for me to do that. If I had more time I would leave it for a few days and then hit it again with a vengance, but it needs to be ready for xmas. Also I spoke to my hardware supplier who has techies doing installs for him, and he offered to get it installed for me for €24! I spent 5 days doing my brain in for €24 ? ****...I just wish I had joined this forum at the beginning before I spent so much time on it and getting frustrated and confused . I´m sure I could have done it with your help and I must say that you (jaclaz) are a star for the speed in which you took up my challenge, and everyone elses for that matter. I will definately post here next time I have problems, in fact I´m going to (absolutely, positively need to) find out what the problem was and I´ll post it here for anyone else having the same issue. Thanks for your help. Stuart

Hi Jaclaz, Thanks for your speedy reply. As far as I know, yes I have all the drivers. In fact not long ago I installed xp on my aspire 5920 using the same copy of xp. Forgot to mention that its Xp pro Sp3. I hate to sound stupid, but how can I bring up the boot.ini? The best I can do is bootcfg/list from the recovery console and give you the boot list, which now has 2 entries: [1] "Windows XP Professional" OS Load Options: OS Location: C:\WINDOWS [2] "Microsoft Windows XP Professional" OS Load Options: /noexecute=optin /fastdetect OS Location: C:\WINDOWS Read the post that you linked, I´ve been through the same thing and done the same thing too. Except mines not working. Stuart

Hi, I have a huge problem which I desperately need help with, and fast! My dad has bought an Acer One D250 as a gift for my mom for Xmas, and as we live in Spain, it came with Windows7 starter in Spanish thus I decided to change it for XP. With no cd drive I´ve tried to install using a 4gb flash drive, I´ve also read, downloaded and tried every method I can find to get this done but with no luck at all. What happens is this: After prep of the usb with winsetupfromusb_0_2_3, formated as ntfs and to boot as hd using RMPrebUSB, it boots up with no problem. I choose the txt installation and setup starts, I then delete existing C: partition and then create new C: partition. As instructed, I then reboot and choose txt install again, continue to format the new C: partition and start the windows install. All files are then copied, no problems so far. Once all files are copied it then reboots and I select the GUI installation. Windows then continues to install, still with no problems at all. Once installed......PROBLEMS? It wont boot at all. Without the usb drive connected all I get is "Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware config. problem". With the usb connected, if I select gui install again, I get 3 seconds of the XP boot screen before it flashes up a BSOD and then automatically reboots. So I spent days going through forums and reading other peoples problems, and as far as I can tell its a boot.ini problem. OK, so I boot into the recovery console and try fixmbr, which tells me that the system has an invalid mbr and I could wreck the partitions if I continue with fixmbr. So I try it anyway (nothing to loose) and its still the same. So I then scan and add the found windows installation to the mbr from the recovery console so that when I boot I now get the choice of 2 boot options, the 1st one that was installed and the installation that I just added to the mbr (both the same). No luck, just get the same error. I´ve slipstreamed the xp installation using dpsbase with the mass storage drivers and the chipset drivers. I´ve tried installing with the bios set to IDE instead of ACPI but it really didnt like that and had even more errors, but with ACPI it installs with no errors. I´ve tried installing with the usb in FAT32 and NTFS, no difference only LOTS slower in FAT32 I tried booting from different partitions, no luck. As you can see, I think I´ve tried pretty much everything that has been suggested in various forums and sites and I´ve now run out of ideas. If XP appears to install perfectly, why will it not reboot?? I seems I have an Acer One with no OS, and there is only 10 days to Xmas and I´m getting a little worried. Please Please Please help me....