February 22, 200917 yr Next there is a error message: partition T: is corrupt. Yes error message is about T:, not U:Was the USB write protected? I guess at that stage windows attempts to write on it, and since it's protected dumps the error message.Thus I went in catch 22- need to write protect USB for the text mode stage, but can't because it's seen as a hard disk now, and Windows will try to place the boot files on it.
February 23, 200917 yr Does XP setup itself read MBR again and seek files at MBR partition 01BE only?Surprising and Related to your observation:I observed that when the sequence of the entries in the partition table is reversed as comparedto the real sequence of partitions on the Install Drive that XP Setup refuses to continue.Surprisingly on Reboot XP Setup had REPAIRED the partition table and then could CONTINUE.I have used TinyHexer to observe what is going on in the partition table.So XP Setup reads MBR and Repairs MBR partition table so that sequence of entries correspond toreal sequence of partitions on Harddisk. Edited February 23, 200917 yr by wimb
March 5, 200917 yr Confirmed. The approach here:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?...ic=7138&hl=works, thanks to the new features tinybit added to latest grub4dos.@wimbCheck the idea from cdob, it seems like a very suitable way to install XP from USB.jaclaz
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