December 10, 200817 yr followed the tutorial letter for letter and receive a disk read error when I boot from usb-stick. any help would be appreciated.
December 10, 200817 yr followed the tutorial letter for letter and receive a disk read error when I boot from usb-stick. any help would be appreciated.Unfortunately, there is NO way you could have followed the tutorial "letter for letter", as it provides a number of choices that may easily "branch" in one direction or the other.Please post:1) some details about your hardware and running OS2) what are you trying to do, EXACTLY (a simple Install XP from USB, a multiboot something, etc.)3) Which EXACT steps you took4) which EXACT error you receive (letter per letter and whether it is white on black or white on blue)jaclaz Edited December 10, 200817 yr by jaclaz
December 11, 200817 yr Author Okay, I am running Windows XP pro, and I am simply trying to format and re-install XP pro from USB. I used multiboot 10, chose the HP formatting utility, formatted as NTFS, copied from XPSOURCE to the USB-stick and chose yes for all of the prompts. I then changed the boot sequence to USB first, rebooted, and white on black text pops up saying "disk read error" press ctrl alt del to restart. Sorry, new to this realm of windows configuration. Thanks for your patience.
December 11, 200817 yr Is it a USB stick?How big?The error is NONE of these, right?http://www.msfn.org/board/error-0xc000000e...90120&st=25If yes, it may be a BIOS error.Were you ever able to boot that USB stick on that computer?If NO, there might be a problem that has nothing to do with USB multiboot.In any case, one must make sure that the key is properly partitoned and formatted (i.e. that is bootable) BEFORE trying again the USB_multiboot.This can be either very simple or tricky.Just try using fuwi's batch:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21702and report.You may want to take some time and review this too:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...=21955&st=5jaclaz
December 11, 200817 yr Author its a 4gb USB-stick, therefore doesn't that require me to format in NTFS? and no, it is not any of those errors. Edited December 11, 200817 yr by dglemmons
December 11, 200817 yr 4 Gbytes can be formatted in FAT16, but with BIG 64 Kb clusters, in FAT32 or NTFS, it is a choice that is up to you, after having weighted the advantages and drawbacks of each filesystem.You need to test the booting process alone first, as per given links, try fuwi's batch and report.jaclaz
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