When installing from pen drive to hp pavillion and using a program clled "usb_prep8" setup copies windows to the disk and partition I says so.

But after reboot an error message says hardware config prob. and I press any key to reboot.

I toggle to my backup os and see windows is copied where I said. The only thing is boot.ini directs the new os entry to disk 1 instead of disk 0. If I change the value foem 1 to 0 setup continues as it ought.

Original thread here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=130706&hl=

Have you checked FAQ #9?

have you checked that you kept the USb stick in until GUI part of setup?

jaclaz