rsmalinoski

Thank you ilko_t for you help. Turns out, stupidly enough, that the BIOS did in fact need to be updated. I guess the test PC was older than I thought. However, one last issue remains - now the external harddrive is acting slow and when I open folders to replace the NTDETECT file and replace it in the ISO, the wait time is atrocious. I will run chkdsk /r on it and hope for the best - probably reformatting it a million times try to test different settings and plugging/unplugging it didn't help. Maybe you might have a suggestion. Either way, everything seems to be working fine as far as booting. Thanks again

formatting via disk management and making it active did not fix the problem. i am running the new version of rmprepusb to see how that goes. I don't need to install grub4dos or anything else? Like I stated before, XP/BartPE bootable and NTFS file system. Seems pretty straight forward. Update this morning: Ok so the hard drives are good. But after some testing, I formatted the hard drive straight NTFS and partition made active with nothing else and issue. It gets to post and i go to boot menu and there is a blinking cursor at the top of the screen and nothing else. BIOS needs to be updated maybe? Is there a certain config that the jumper has to be set to? I've never done something like this before so I'm not too sure what the settings need to be. As far as formatting it with winsetup, I have been doing the it the same, but I also tried formatting just with disk management and partitioning and then just using winsetup to copy over versions of windows. I must be doing something wrong with formatting or maybe the computer I'm testing it out on just sucks : \

Well, I am back again I am having an issue installing on a larger hard drive - its 60gigs. On the thumb drives, everything works fine. But when I use the same process (format NTFS, ntldr xp boot as HDD) on the larger hard drive all I get is a blinking cursor. I am trying to run multiple OS installs (xp, vista, and 7) to use. Even when I just install a copy of XP, I still get the cursor. There doesn't seem to be limitations on sizes for winsetup (googled - didn't find anything) and I know the hard drive is good. If someone could point me in the right direction, I would be grateful Thank you

Thank you for the reply. That hotfix is included with SP3 so that wasn't the issue. Went through the BIOS and the sata mode was combination instead of normal, which makes no sense to be because the drive am using is IDE. Thank you for your help though. If I have any issues with multiple OS installs I will venture back here. Thank you again

Hi all, I'm sorry to bother you. First and foremost, awesome program. Very easy to use. I am just running into an issue. I am trying to create an external hdd that has multiple versions of windows to install from. Simple enough, but I wanted to try on usb first. I am using the latest version of winsetupfromusb and get through the text part no problem. I had to use the ntdetect.com fix to get it to work - but no issues. But now, whenever I do the second part, I get 2 (HEX:0x2) a few times and then "A disk read error occurred, press alt + ctrl + del" I have tried numerous things. I don't know if it is a booting issue, or mbr or what. I tried find /usbdrive.tag and the calc and everything seems okay. If you could please guide me into the right direction I would appreciate it I am using Dell XP OEM SP 2 untouched. I was using a streamlined version but this makes it simple. I setup Xp bootable with ntldr and NTFS and boot as HDD.