michaelweaser

The USB emulation feature in the bios does make DOS recognize the usb drive as a fixed disk , so i attempted to install it using that way, it tries to install, but, then, it does the blue screen of death, with something to do with HAL and the hard drive

I use winsetupfromusb to do the installation which is on a 8gb emtec flash drive, and i am trying to get it to install to 16gb sandisk flash drive. I am not sure if this is a help but in the bios settings, there is a setting called usb mass storage emulation type, and it says it can set usb storage devices as all removable or all fixed disk, and there is an auto and size , the auto figures out what it is and sets it accordingly and than size, sets it based on the size of the usb storage medium. I'm sure this won't help since im sure the usb mass storage emulation type is for like 16 bit OS, like DOS, Since when windows xp boots and not controlled by the BIOS really anymore that setting isn't applicable. I tested it and yes in DOS when you have that set to fixed disk it shows up in DOS with Fixed disk as a hard drive. Wondering if you could get around this by loading the windows xp installer from DOS?

I know it's possible to install windows xp to a flash drive, But how to do it? I have tried installing it with my windows xp usb drive installer, but weirdly it will install to a flash drive , but it won't boot, it somehow puts the mbr on a different drive , sometimes it will do it to the install usb drive, or even the main hard drive. Do I need to use the hitachi microdrive filter driver, that make windows recognize a usb removable drive as a standard fixed disk. Or is there a way to remove the standard disk driver and replace it with the hitachi microdrive filter driver for the usb flash drive, or use the hitachi microdrive filter driver. Would i have to replace the driver by making the hitachi driver as a textmode driver , so during installation it uses it as a the driver for the usb flash drive.