i cannot install from usb, skip txt part, hal.dll, impossible

[sixor]

hi, sorry for my english

i have asus eeepc 1000ha, 2gb ram, 160gb hd, 2gb usb drive, xp sp2, and nlited xp sp3

i installed eeebuntu and it blew my recover partition, so i need to install xp from usb

i have tried like 3 methods for installing xp from usb but it never works, i follow every step but the install never shows up

so i am using latest WinSetupFromUSB, win7 and xp sp3 on my desktop

1(i format the usb drive with petousb, enable quick, quick, enable lba

2(i use xp sp3 with nlite, but just the sp3 was inserted, also intel sata drivers, the rest is default, nothing was removed or changed, not even unattended

3(WinSetupFromUSB does the work then i boot the eeepc

it says

second part from hd 0 part 1

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try entries below if getting hal

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second bla bla bla

second

second

second

so it skips the firts part, i dont know why, help me please, and thanks

btw i have only one partition

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edit, i read the forum and found this

It seems grub4dos MBR is present, but for some reason is failing to launch grldr, which is grub4dos loader.

Open up command prompt, CD to \winsetupfromusb\files\grub4dos\

and type:

CODE

grubinst -l -v (hd2)

Do you recognize your USB stick by its size? If not- change hd2 to hd1. When you recognize your USB stick issue:

CODE

grubinst -v (hd2,0)

replacing hd(2 with whatever number you found your USB stick at.

Please post the output of the last command and check if stick boots fine now.

it worked, but i will tell you later if all installed fine

WinSetupFromUSB.7z

WinSetupFromUSB.7z

Edited June 24, 2009 by sixor

[ilko_t]

Thanks for the logs. I need to look why fixing grubinst under Vista/7 broke installation under XP...

[ilko_t]

@Jaclaz

Would you have a look at mbrdisk2-20090624-021041.dat in the second attachment in the first post and spot anything unusual?

[sixor]

hello, finally i could install xp

i just had to do the procedure mentioned above, and everything was perfect afer that, i did it all under xp

WinSetupFromUSB is a great app, shame it still not perfect in somes cases like mine, but still is the easiest way to install windows from usb

thanks,

btw, for the last log, i removed all previous logs just so you could see the last thing i did