Setup cannot find a CD-ROM drive

[MrLinuxGuy]

Hello everybody,

Ive managed to make a USB XP install disc, and i'm trying to install it onto a notebook that has NO CD ROM drive. Unfortunately, the Windows XP setup doesn't want to not have a CD Rom drive. I've tried editing the txtsetup.sif file section as below, but to no avail:

[SetupData]
SetupSourcePath = "\"
MajorVersion = 5
MinorVersion = 1
DefaultPath=\WINDOWS
OsLoadOptions = "/fastdetect /noguiboot /nodebug"
ForceScsi = 1
ForceDiskClass = 0
ForceCDRom = 0
Architecture = i386
DriverCabName=driver.cab,sp3.cab
ProductType = 0
LoadIdentifier  = %wks_id%
LoadIdentifierCancel  = %cancel_id%
LoadIdentifierWin9x  = %9x_id%
BaseVideoLoadId = %wks_id_vga%
RequiredMemory = 67108864
Pagefile = 115,250

If there is a way to make the setup not look for the CD ROM drive, I'd be happy to know. Please note that this happens in the text more portion of the setup, right after I press Enter to begin the setup. Thanks!

Edited August 1, 2009 by MrLinuxGuy

[ilko_t]

It's not clear what you've done.

Where did you put XP installation files? Where did you start the Setup from?

XP can be installed just fine without looking for a CD.

[MrLinuxGuy]

Well, I make the USB drive bootable, copied and slipstreamed my XP installation files on my hard drive, then ran winnt32.exe /noreboot, and copied the resulting files on from my C drive to the USB disk, as shown in this post. I followed the instructions precisely. The only problem is XP looking for that CD ROM drive. Oh, and the pc I ran winnt32.exe /noreboot with has a CD-ROM drive. May that be the problem?

Edited August 1, 2009 by MrLinuxGuy

[ilko_t]

If you scroll down a bit in the topic you mentioned, you'd see that Porear had the same issue like you have.

Save yourself time, unless you are willing to learn process from scratch, use WinSetupFromUSB and prepare the USB disk properly.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=120444

[MrLinuxGuy]

OK, I guess its something that is not easily remedied. I'll try the new method that you pointed me to, and keep you updated, the only reason I didn't follow instructions on in this section of the forums is because a ) I didn't know it existed until after I copied the files , and b ) This old PC I have uses USB... 1.0

Thanks for the fast replies.

EDIT: It works! Yay.

Edited August 1, 2009 by MrLinuxGuy