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Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Nanookh

Nanookh — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:22:22 +0000

Quite a job, but indeed works perfect!

If DiskPart seems not to run (i.e. you don’t see a command window popping up), run it from a command prompt. You may see the following message: “The disk management services could not complete the operation”.
In that case, run the following two commands from the command prompt:

net start dmserver
net start dmadmin

Then run DiskPart

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Mic2000

Mic2000 — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:44:06 +0000

Roderick, it works like a charm! Thank you very much!

PS: Also an old laptop with a broken cd-player, crashed HDD(replaced it), broken mousepad and a battery that died many years ago. Think i’m still gonna use it for some oldscool gaming ^^.

Thnx!

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by John

John — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:41:05 +0000

@Richard on March 3rd, 2010

The Server2003 SP1 files are needed for BartPE to be able to boot from a RAMDRIVE which is what these files are for.

These files get picked up during the C:\pebuilder\pe2usb -f [drive:] step.

To quote Bart Lagerwiej, “The 2003 setupldr with ramdisk option prevents windows from crashing or a 0×7b stop error (inaccessible boot device).

This happens when windows is loading the USB devices drivers and the USB driver “resets” the USB bus. When we are riding from the ramdisk loader, we are not dependant any USB vendor windows driver from resettings the USB bus. We can now boot successful from “most” usb capable of booting hardware.”

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Richard manson

Richard manson — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:14:44 +0000

Very rubbish guide to be honest. So many things are weird. Why did I need to use the PE builder and make a BartPE folder if it was never touched. You said copy the i386 folder to the usb but it was hard to finally understand which of the 3 i386 folders u are talking about. Why did I need the windows 2003 server and stuff if it never was used on the usb stick? I just did those things and they never got touched.

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Jeremy Emata

Jeremy Emata — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 04:30:37 +0000

Yeah i am formating my Eee PC900 But when i finally put the USB in i get an Error called

Disk Error
Press any key to restart
_

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by bort900

bort900 — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:46:12 +0000

Hey just wanted to say like everyone else, excellent guide!!!! i used it for a buddy’s netbook. Awesome guide! thanks!!!!

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Jim

Jim — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:12:41 +0000

Just echoing what someone else said – you MUST use the Windows 2003 *SP1* files. I tried with SP2 first and it hung on the “Please wait” during startup. Redid it with the SP1 files and it just worked.

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Conor

Conor — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:55:32 +0000

I just successfully installed XP/SP3 on my Acer. The CD drive still doesn’t work, but installing from USB while walking around was oddly satisfying.

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by Oded Avraham

Oded Avraham — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 18:33:36 +0000

hi
thank you for great work! it was huge help

oded

Comment on Installing Windows XP from USB by illusies

illusies — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:07:42 +0000

WORKS FOR ME ON MY ACER ASPIRE ONE NOTEBOOK.

Carefully follow instructions “Run D:\i386\winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource”. That’s what made the difference for me.

Before though, my 120gb hard drive was unstable (blue screen of death) I used unetbootin (Ubuntu’s linux on usb version) (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/create-a-bootable-ubuntu-usb-flash-drive-the-easy-way/)) to re-partition my drive to NTFS using the gparted tool in ubuntu.

Worked like a charm…