Dechy Posted December 2, 2008 Share Posted December 2, 2008 I've search, and thought I found some things, then tried them, didn't work, searched some more, etc...I really can't get this to work, for some odd reason my autounattend.xml just won't get recognized from an extrenal USB HD... it works perfectly fine from DVD media, or in a VM, just not from there (I don't have a USB stick greater than 2GB, so can't test that scenario; stuck with HD).Tried copying the XML on root, in sources & in both places, still no go...The install can boot from my HD (although for some EXTREMELY weird reason, it takes FOREVER to go back the text based "Windows is loading files", I mean 6-7 minutes...) finally gets in Vista install and I'm always greeted by the international settings window (so it's not seeing my XML).Any ideas?Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicman256 Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 I am having the same issue. I was wondering if you had been able to find a solution? If not maybe we can figure it out.Let me know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAVERICKS CHOICE Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Are your Mb's capable of allowing booting by USB? If so have you set the bios correctly for that option? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 Are you using the "XP install from USB"? http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=157No it's not only for XP. There has been a similar report:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120631but the OP "abandoned" the game. I guess that wimb and ilko_t may help you on this. jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magicman256 Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 MAVERICKS CHOICE - Yes, my BIOS fully supports booting from USB.jaclaz - I haven't tried with that method yet. Not sure how it does it's thing but the diskpart method seems works great for Vista.As for my problem I believe it has to do with the boot sector on my usb hard disk drive. I was using a WD Passport 120 Gig USB drive (older model) with 2 partitions. One 10 Gig formatted with FAT32 (Vista Boot Partition) and the second was 110 Gig NTFS Partition. It would build Vista fine, it would not however read the Autounattend.xml. What I mean is that it would build like you were using the original DVD to install Vista. I eventually got tired of trying to figure it out and went with a 4 Gig test flash drive. That worked like a charm, built Vista in roughly 25 to 30 minutes requiring no input from me. YAY.... I'm not really sure why the 120 Gig gave me so much trouble. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithdib Posted March 24, 2009 Share Posted March 24, 2009 HiI am having the same problem when trying to install from a USB HDD..Has anyone got a fix for this please?cheersKeith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now