mijk Posted February 27, 2010 Posted February 27, 2010 Hello, i'm new here and trying to make a USB bootable windows installation.First of all : i have a LEGAL XP PRO key so the things im trying to do are legal.I've seen your topics about the GUI USB bootloader but that doesn't work for me. (the reason for this, is that my WinXP ISO does not contain WINNT.exe)My software is downloaded, a Performance Edition win XP pro. But with legal key.To prepare my USB Flash bootdisk i use "PeToUSB" version 3 (look at this to see how its done). When all files are copied and I try to boot from my USB the netbook says "$WIN_NT$.~BT\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded." To solve this problem i've renamed the i386 folder to "$WIN_NT$.~BT" and moved txtsetup.sif to the root of the USB stick. This seems quite ok, coz the setup starts after this.When the setup starts, its beginning to load drivers until it comes to the SCSI drivers (CD-Rom in particular).It gives me the following error;Setup cannot find a CD-ROM Drive.Make sure your CD-ROM drive is on and properly connected to your computer.If it is a SCSI CD-ROM drive, make sure your SCSI devices are properly terminated. See your computer or SCSI adapter documentation for more information. Setup cannot continue. To quit Setup, press F3. Well no s*** sherlock, in Netbooks there aren't any CDroms.Is there any way to avoid this without using the GUI-thing USB preperation?
ilko_t Posted February 27, 2010 Posted February 27, 2010 The GUI thingie must be WinSetupFromUSB, right?Did you use the latest 1.0 beta5? It should not need and doesn't check for the files mentioned as the method is completely different than in 0.2.3 and prior.What you tried with PEtoUSB will NOT work, wish it was so simple
mijk Posted February 27, 2010 Author Posted February 27, 2010 (edited) The GUI thingie must be WinSetupFromUSB, right?Did you use the latest 1.0 beta5? It should not need and doesn't check for the files mentioned as the method is completely different than in 0.2.3 and prior.What you tried with PEtoUSB will NOT work, wish it was so simple The download link seems broken...Edit; ah it works now... lol, its build in autoIT Edited February 27, 2010 by mijk
mijk Posted February 27, 2010 Author Posted February 27, 2010 The GUI thingie must be WinSetupFromUSB, right?Did you use the latest 1.0 beta5? It should not need and doesn't check for the files mentioned as the method is completely different than in 0.2.3 and prior.What you tried with PEtoUSB will NOT work, wish it was so simple The download link seems broken...Edit; ah it works now... lol, its build in autoIT It works further than my previous attempts, chapeau... but now the setup doesnt seem to find my HDD on my netbook. Eventhou i use an XPversion WITH slipstream SATA drivers... Is there any way to stream those drivers with additional config in the 1.0 beta5?
ilko_t Posted February 27, 2010 Posted February 27, 2010 No idea what "additional config" you have in mind. There is no automated way in the program if that's the question. You need to integrate the appropriate mass storage drivers or switch to IDE emulation in your BIOS. Search the forum or google if don't know what this is about, here for example:
jaclaz Posted February 27, 2010 Posted February 27, 2010 First of all : i have a LEGAL XP PRO key so the things im trying to do are legal.I've seen your topics about the GUI USB bootloader but that doesn't work for me. (the reason for this, is that my WinXP ISO does not contain WINNT.exe)My software is downloaded, a Performance Edition win XP pro. But with legal key.I don't care if you have a legal key, the downloaded copy is WAREZ anyway, but more than that it is a modified copy with services/files removed.We won't help you on this.jaclaz
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