Kazimir82

Thanks!! Actually there was no SATA hdd in this laptop (and besides, two of the WinXP install CDs I tried were actually slipstreamed with recent SATA drivers already, and still had the same problem). But the thread you mentioned linked to this NTDETECT.COM patch which made it work for me! \o/ Cheers

I'm desperately trying to create a WinXP Pro installation USB to reinstall a laptop (which has a broken CDRom drive, that's why I need to reinstall from USB instead of CD). The laptop (an Asus W3V) can boot from USB, no problem. But every single time the Windows Setup is loading, it gives me a bluescreen, even before I have to choose anything. I see the grub4dos boot menu, Windows Setup is loading (the textmode part with 'Press F6 to load additional drivers' in the bottom, etc), and then after a few seconds, the bluescreen appears. I have tried to create the USB installer with WinSetupFromUSB v.0.2.3, using several different Windows XP Pro CDs, different USB sticks, formatted them with different filesystems (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS), tried the 'Copy setup boot/RC files only' option, and I really retried booting MANY times. But every single time, the same blue screens pops up Does anyone know what else I could try to overcome this??