cham88 Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 i see alot of complicated ways to install xp from a usb thru google. Why can't i just slipstream sp3 onto sp2 xp, tell nlite to make it bootable, burn to cd, copy files from cd to usb drive. set to boot from usb in bios, install xp.will this not work?thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Don't know but there's a whole forum on the subject matter here. Install Windows from USB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cham88 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 Don't know but there's a whole forum on the subject matter here. Install Windows from USBthanks, looks like it is more complicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 The CD's boot sector autoruns winnt.exe after you press any key to boot from CD. I guess a similar boot sector needs to be written to the thumb drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cham88 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 The CD's boot sector autoruns winnt.exe after you press any key to boot from CD. I guess a similar boot sector needs to be written to the thumb drive.Well I believe that is beyond my expertise so I will take the easier way out and temporarily snag an optical drive from another PC to install windows.I have only a PATA HDD but I can temporarily use either a SATA or PATA optical drive. I want to install xp with ACHI enabled in the BIOS since I will eventually have a SATA HDD and i found out the hard way that to enable ACHI requires a complete new xp install.choices:1. Sata optical, nlite SATA drivers. (i think i tried this before and it failed)2 PATA optical on same IDE as HDD (only one IDE header),HDD master, optical slave, nlite installwhat to do, what to do... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 You don't need much expertise. There are programs in that forum that will help you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cham88 Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 You don't need much expertise. There are programs in that forum that will help you.Thanks man, I'll check it out after I put this Antec 300 build together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin H Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 The CD's boot sector autoruns winnt.exe after you press any key to boot from CD. I guess a similar boot sector needs to be written to the thumb drive.Just for reference, then the CD's boot-sector runs ntldr which is the boot-loader for CD/DVD-based installs and which dosen't use dosnet.inf(layout.inf+txtsetup.sif), while winnt/winnt32 is the DOS/Windows installers for non-bootable-CD/DVD based installs and which does use dosnet.inf... Just in case others were interested, but as -X- said, theres a complete forum for USB installs elsewhere on MSFN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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