Dogsled Posted August 12, 2012 Share Posted August 12, 2012 (edited) Hi friends, I am new to BART PE so please help me understand this problem. Be aware of what I am working with from the beginning so you can picture this clearly as I describe what is going on here.HARDWARE and BART PE The PC is a 2005 Dell Latitude in perfect physical and operational condition (gifted to me as was seldom used).It currently has only 512MB of RAM (MAX Capacity = 2 GB). It has an 80GB Hard Drive, a CD-RW/DVD-RW, and4 BOOTABLE USB ports. Everything needed by BART PE minimum system requirements - the BIOS boot orderis fully and easily configurable, and I have made the appropriate adjustments. BART PE is Version 3.1.1.0 - it's the latest one I think. I created a bootable Sandisk 4(not a typo-yes I said 4)GB USB FLASHDrive BART PE XP BUILD. It works. It's formatted in FAT I get the GUI of BART PE up onscreen, andcan read all drives (the booted Sandisk USB FLASHDrive reads as DriveLetter "X:". I thought everything was fine. Here is my situation: WHILE IN BART PE's onscreen GUI, I inserted an XP Installation CD (XP SP3).It seems that running the Setup.exe file BEGINS okay, the usual screens of accepting-terms-of-service, entering-product-keys, choosing which partition to create/install-to, and in which format, etc.. but what happens is that when the actual real installation begins... ...poof, the screen pauses, and the main interface (XP SetUp Options Screen)re-appears, and it's not a joke or a fluke. This is what is happening... it goes into this repetitious cycle. Well, before you ask, YES I DID try to install from I386\WINNT.exe. But that was beginning to install it onto the Sandisk 4GB USB FLASHdrive I used to boot from. (Yes, I selected formatting/partitioning the fixed hard disk - it didn't matter though)My Question really comes down to this: Once I clean up my flashdrive from that botched self-install abortion, and make it BART PE bootable etc again,Can i use the format the harddrive partition of the XP Setup, and then interupt the Setup after that, and then copy the entire XP SETUP CD to my harddrive and run it from there, by running WINNT.EXE ?Can I do that with no problems ? This is a Dell Latitude D610 in really good shape, it's pretty tough. But I am now in mid-install from the first time ( I was installing to the hard drive, and it appeared that that's where the files were going to, until....)... Now, when this thing boots it keeps going into a cycle of unpacking this and thatand partitioning the drive,etc and then begins the install (as mentioned..... and then .......poof, it stalls, then reboots.Just so you know.... I know everybody says BART PE is only supposed to be used for up to 2GB but you know what, BART PE has been around for a long time, and in the beginning 2GB was considered a large flash drive. FAT(16) willformat up to 4 GB though I read somewhere else, and I tried it. And I used that as the drive which I built my BART PE build into, and that build does work just fine. Real fast too. It's installing a hard drive OS I'm having a problem with.I'm skeptical that simply putting it on the flash drive instead of the hard drive or vice-versa is very relevant. I think it's my memoryat only 512 MB. Cuz that BART PE build is running in a RamDisk of nearly half of it - 255MB. But I don't really know what thatimplies either, since the minimum system requirement for an XP OS of any edition is only 128 MB. So, you tell me, then, OK ?What is the explanation for what I am dealing with here ? Is it the memory ? Do I have to install some add-on, or make a syntaxtext string modification to a .sif file or something. Omit any replies about virus possibilities pls, even idiots like me know viruses get cleaned off newly cleanly wiped formatted and partitioned drives.Thank you very much. Edited August 12, 2012 by Dogsled Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdob Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Set /syspart and /tempdrive running winnt32.In addition there is a section: Install Windows from USB http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/157-install-windows-from-usb/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 BART PE is Version 3.1.1.0 - it's the latest one I think. I created a bootable Sandisk 4(not a typo-yes I said 4)GB USB FLASHDrive BART PE XP BUILD. It works. It's formatted in FAT I get the GUI of BART PE up onscreen, andcan read all drives (the booted Sandisk USB FLASHDrive reads as DriveLetter "X:". I thought everything was fine. Here is my situation: WHILE IN BART PE's onscreen GUI, I inserted an XP Installation CD (XP SP3).Three questions.Is the filesystem FAT (FAT16) or FAT (FAT32)?How EXACTLY haas it been made bootable?If you "inserted" a CD, it should mean that you have a CD drive on that machine , then why do you need to use the complex workaround you described?jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wimb Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 (edited) After booting with BartPE then try to use WinNTSetup2_x86.exe to prepare your HD for Install of XPInstall of XP or Windows 7 from USB After Booting with 7 PE and by using WinNTSetup2_x86.exe and Setup ISO file in Virtual drivehttp://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=24424 Edited August 13, 2012 by wimb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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