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Do you know if you can under or over clock the cpu, or change how much memory the onboard video uses?
Thanks again!
HTH
2 GB of RAM here, but I'm not so sure it's needed. Even with Lotus Notes, IE, Firefox, Word, and Photoshop open at the same time I'm still not using all the RAM. It's nice to have it available - might need it someday. But if you're wondering if you should go to 2GB in your Mini-Note, I'd say it would depend on your choice of OS. Vista - I'd go 2GB. XP - 1GB is probably fine for most cases. Linux - 1GB should do fine.
A computer running M$-Windows.
Those utilities are all Windows executables and I have not yet gotten them to run under Wine.
I am having the same problem. Did you ever solve it? Could you share your solution if you did?
Anyway, I tried to leave the VISTA restore partition behind and XP installed okay, but then the machine wouldn't boot from the hard disk (always got some sort of "bad OS" error at startup). Booting from the flash drive worked, but mucking with the boot.ini didn't help.
Incidentally, when I then tried to do the XP install again with the same memory stick, the text mode option always failed with "INF file txtsetup.sif corrupt or missing, status 18" error. Bizarre. So now my machine is back to Vista factory image and I created a new XP image on my USB drive, this time with SP2 slipstreamed in. Wish me luck :)
Currently installing XP as we speak!
Your walkthrough is an excellent resource, thanks for writing it up and posting it.
am using 8 GB Sony USB stick, some how i formatted using xp format,
will it work/?? any suggestion please , thanks
I have checked the USB stick and it appears that the files are on the device but not in the correct folders??
Any ideas?
Stuart
I have formatted and produced a bootable USB stick with XP but when I try to boot the Mini-Note from the USB stick I get "\$WIN_NTS.~BT\biosinfo.inf could not be loaded. The error code is 14." I have manually copied this file into the \$WIN_NTS.~BT\ directory and I get a little further before it tells me there is another missing file.
I have rebooted my desktop XP machine and started over with the same result. I think that the "missing" files are present on the USB stick but perhaps not in the correct directories (folders).I'm not sure how this happened since I have followed your instructions to the letter (but I'm a newbie with this stuff). There is about 680MB of data on the USB stick. The only things I am unsure of are
1. Do the booksect and usb_prep8 folders need to be in the root of the C drive on my XP desktop machine ? I put them in a sub-folder.
2. Near the end of the process it prompts for some options regarding removing the virtual drive and chosing MkMigrateInf2 or MkMigrateInf (I think from memory)
I was not sure what to do here.
Aagin, any ideas would be helpful before I have to buy a USB CD Drive, which I really don't want to do
Thanks
Stuart
1. Try repeating all the steps over again. Sometimes you need to completely reformat the flash drive and add all of the installation files to it again. I have no idea why.
2. It's possible that you have a USB stick that you cannot boot from. I'm not sure what sets some sticks apart from others, but I do have one stick that I can't seem to mark bootable no matter how many different Windows or Linux tools I used. If you've got a different flash drive or an SD card that you can try, that may help.
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-win...
which suggests edits to some of the lines in the code. I edited the usb_prep8.cmd and hey presto, it all works. I now have a Mini-Note running XP Pro and I couldn't have done it without you!!
If you would like me to document the edits here, I will or I can email you privately
Thanks again
Stuart
Th
Hi,
I solved the "biosinfo" as well at the missing file at the copy on the virtual disk.
2 solutions :
Do-it-by-yourself and modify usb_prep8.cmd.
Line 519 replace :
xcopy %xpsource%!xpdir!\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h
with:
xcopy %xpsource%\%xpdir%\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h
Line 521, replace :
xcopy %xpsource%!xpdir!\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
with:
xcopy %xpsource%\%xpdir%\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
Line 525, replace :
copy /y %xpsource%!xpdir!\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I
with:
copy /y %xpsource%\%xpdir%\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I
Line 527, rmplace :
copy /y %xpsource%!xpdir!\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
with:
copy /y %xpsource%\%xpdir%\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
my email is xpastkillshotx@hotmail.com
only recognize a USB device if it's plugged in during startup. You could
also click on the unknown device in the device manager and see if you can
find new drivers on the internet.
What can I do?
I've solved the problem by deleting the I386 folder on USB stick and copy the I386 folder from Xp cdrom to USB stick, reboot PC and continue installation.
It worked on my Acer Aspire One
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-win...
partition. But if you contact HP support and ask for a SUSE recovery disc,
they'll ship one to you.
thanks for sharing.
Thanks a lot!
yishrael
I'm writing regarding point 9.10 of the "Installing XP on the Mini-Note" chapter, as this is where I got stuck. It says:
"# Now you can (somewhat) safely edit the boot.ini file, changing the partition number or other settings to more closely resemble the one I listed above. Save your file, and hopefully you’ll be able to reboot without your USB stick."
I tried all possible values in the boot.ini file (including the most common one "multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows xp" /FASTDETECT", I have one drive with one partition on it) and my system is still unable to start without usb stick plugged in. I installed windows recovery console and that added another line in the boot.ini file on my hard drive but it made no difference in booting.
Because the system is able to start from the usb stick I then changed one line in the boot.ini file that is on the stick, from: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1) to: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1), hoping that this would make the system start from the hard drive. But it didn't and resulted in an error saying about a missing or corrupted hal.dll file (I did format the hard drive as per guidelines).
Have you got any idea what I could do yet to make the system start as changing boot.ini on the hard drive does not make any difference?
I just wonder how many times the same text is rewritten over and over again on internet....
as cd player of my laptop is not working.
plz solve my problem
Probably it' s something about sata drivers.
But where can i Find them???
Thank you very much! Installed WinXP onto Sylvania g netbook meso. Funny, one WinXP Pro disk gave blue screen, another worked fine. Overall, very nice and simple tutorial.
"compatibility" mode doesnt work eighter :(
Just a quick one for all those with the biosinfo not being found... edit the prep8.cmd with notepad and replace the following:
Line 519 replace :
xcopy %xpsource%!xpdir!\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h
par
xcopy %xpsource%\%xpdir%\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h
Line 521, replace :
xcopy %xpsource%!xpdir!\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
par
xcopy %xpsource%\%xpdir%\!btfile! %tmpdrive%\%btdir% /i /k /y /h | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
Lige 525, replace :
copy /y %xpsource%!xpdir!\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I
par
copy /y %xpsource%\%xpdir%\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I
Line 527, replace :
copy /y %xpsource%!xpdir!\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
par
copy /y %xpsource%\%xpdir%\%%H %tmpdrive%\%btdir%\%%I | tee.bat -a usb_prep.log
I used xp pro sp3 cd
1.as I would need to put XP c/w SP2 on USB how do I do this?you have said how to prepare the usb memory stick and everything,but I am still not sure if you can help, please :) what is not clear for me is,how the windows will end up on memory stick?does it come from the computer I am using???if you can clarify,cheers.
I have MSI u90 netbook and i need to install windows xp. Will this work for me?
Or, if it doesn't any suggestion?
I appreciate your help.
HP 2133 Mini-Note computer. Many users have found them helpful for loading
Windows XP on other hardware, but I can't make any promises.
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Brad,I got my HP mini the other day and as haven't used Linux before want to change it to XP.I have been reading your guide,which have to say is very good,still have got few questions,which if you or anybody else can help would be great.
1.as I would need to put XP c/w SP2 on USB how do I do this?you have said how to prepare the usb memory stick and everything,but I am still not sure if you can help, please :) what is not clear for me is,how the windows will end up on memory stick?does it come from the computer I am using???if you can clarify,cheers.
I am trying to install XP from my USB stick but like some of the other posts above it won't detect my HDD when trying to partition. I have set the SATA to compatible in the BIOS but this doesn't solve the problem. Where can I ge the SATA drivers for the 2133?
Thanks.
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well... for the problem of hal.dll after first part of instalation if the disk wasnt fully formated:
just run recovery console type 'map' and write down the name of device and Harddisk number where your xp is installed (newly created partition).
Should be sth like this:
\Device\Harddisk1\Partition2 or similar (you will know which one if you select significant diskspace when you create partition for XP)
also check the drive letter (you should be in C: but if not remember this one (mine was D: ))
Now take the usb stick out (note: when its not in use - turn off mininote or sth) plug it in to your regular pc/lap and edit BOOT.INI (make back up first!)
change the lines with the \Device\sth to the right ones, and make sure the drive letter is proper (it says C: but if you have got mininote with Vista Recovery partition, the actual C: is assigned to this recovery and you need to change it to D: (e.x. mine) or whatever your windows partition letter is)
Now save and put the usb stick back to mininote. Restart. You should be able to run GUI setup without any "missing hal.dll or sth else" errors.
hooray i saved the vista recovery (or i hope so ;) )
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strange... resolution seems to be set totally wrong... cant see thing - make sure you had set as much as you could in the "Unattended" mode during "nLite" step so you dont have to guess where to click, because most of the screen is outside the visible area :D
or try including graphic drivers to your XP installation with nLite, but... good luck with it ;)
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sorry for the messy post but... good advise: you can try adding all drivers to installation disk as additional files or as integration at the end of nLite wizard, but remember - you will need a lot (3-4GB?) of disk space if you want to make all steps from the beginning of this tutorial to the very end without deleting .ISOs, temp images, unpacked drivers, and so on. I mean on your regular pc/lap
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What i cant fix, is this stupid problem with the need to boot from gui mode from usb stick... boot.ini which i try to edit is still on the C:, and even editing it via sysdm.cpl it still tries to change the boot.ini on hp_recovery!
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Above seems to be fixed - for me the proper selection is multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(2)\WINDOWS
it is since my XP is on second partition (huh... i know it should be obvious but.. eh... its 3 a.m. here and still lots to do :D )
there is one thing i need to check about this... remove usb stick :)
oh... i suppose i've messed up the Vista boot.ini and in the end I won't be able to boot up the hp_recovery... May some good soul send me boot.ini from hp_recovery ( jabcok_jabcok(put_at_here)wp(put_dot_here)pl )or post it under this great tutorial.
XP is loading while i'm writing this.. wait. Logged in. Man its on! Just THAT fast.
Time for drivers!
whoa takes a while. Especially (!) camera firmware flashing and drivers. Don't ask me why...
Done. Everything works.
Thanks for this tutorial! Thanks for hints from these comments and thanks for help to my friend mazzi. Nice work ppl!
p.s. - about the hp_recovery - well... i think it might run even without this particular boot.ini but if someone have a chance to check it, please give me info if its needed or not because i'll try to install Vista on second partition soon (for comparison) so I hope not to spend yet another 8 hours trying to make it work.
http://pcduniya.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=87 and use the file that they recommended. Pretty more simple and absolutely effective
I spent almost a whole day trying everything possible to get SP3 installed. SP2 worked immediately. What a waste of time...
From one more HP mini-note user
You've did great job
Also, in regards to booting to Parted Magic, you might want to mention unetbootin, which runs on all platforms. If you don't know what it does yet I highly recommend just using that instead of messing aroung with sysconfig...
i m very thankful to u
Biju
I have one problem and I`m getting crazy becausse of it, I hope someone can help me.
When I want to prepare my USB I can`t get passed step 8. When I type in “bootsect.exe /nt52 E:” I get the folowing message: "bootsect.exe is not being recognized as a internal or external command, programm or batchfile
I have tried this with different USB-sticks and on different laptops or desktops.
Greetings
Berin
Epic instructions are epic. You're a lifesaver.
thanks for your help
The tip about "Compatibility Mode" for the SATA setup solved my problem of missing drive in the list as well. Thanks!
Thanks
I've made the usb stick, and I can boot from the usb stick and when I first press second option when booting from the usb everythings goes fine but when i have to reboot after the first part of the installation their is a problem because I press the number 1 and then my screen turns black and nothing happens anymore.
What am I doing wrong? Could it be because I kept my Vista and Recovery on the disk?
I've already tried it a couple of times with two different XP versions (home oem, and XP pro) and I've had to times the same result..
So please help me because running vista on the mininote is not really great.. :-s
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=option /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="USB Repair NOT to start Microsoft XP Professional" /noexecute=option /fastdetect
I want boot from hd, how i have to change boot.ini file? can you please help me?
I follow all the steps, but if I run the first .cmd file as normal PEtoUSB does not detect my flash drive. If I run it as an administrator, PEtoUSB does not launch.
If I run the cmd file and then run PEtoUSB manually, it finds the drive and I can do all the steps in PEtoUSB, but when I try and do step four in the console window I get this:
'VDK.EXE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'VDK.EXE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdk.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdk.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdk.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdk.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Temporary Virtual Drive O: Created, lets Format it
Specified drive does not exist.
TEMPDRIVE O: Not Formatted - Program will be Ended
Closing Existing Virtual Drives if any ....
'VDK.EXE' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
'vdk.exe' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Existing Virtual Drives if any are Closed
I know I shouldn't be running PEtoUSB Manually, but it's the only way I can get it to work.
thanks for your detailed description. was very helpful for us.
best regards from germany
tom
Oh/ And thanks God I had kept Windows drivers, bloody LG has zero (0) support on its site.. :(
thank you very much for the time and effort place on this. It was the perfect help for me.
Fr: Dennis
Thanks!
than good. If you find a link that you're actually interested in,
that's one thing. But you shouldn't click links just because you think
it'll help a blogger get paid. It could actually have the reverse
effect as advertisers penalize click fraud pretty severely.
I tried changing it based on Microsoft instructions and broke it, so I'll start again (even last known good didn't fix it.)
Any ideas how to build my 2133 with C: as the boot drive letter? Some software still doesn't install properly if C: isn't the boot disk
Thanks in advance.
Thanks.
Failed to open file 'tempimage.img".
The system cannot find the file specified.
Input correct patch:
Note: I am using Windows XP Pro over VMWare Fusion 2.0.2 over Mac OS X 10.5.6.
Any idea how to fix it? Thanks.
I am stuck o0n step 7 in the "Preparing the flash drive" section. I don't seem to have a "Bootsect.exe" file on my system so cannot do step 8. Can you give some more details here?
Thanks
Basil
Thank you so much for your in-depth guide.
Also, for anyone attempting this and from previous comments in this forum, there are now a full set of drivers on the HP website for this notebook. See here:-
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSuppor...
Also thanks to everyones comments which also helped a lot.
Lot's of mini notes are beign shipped with this GRUB 17 loader problem, I do not know how to fix it nor do i care as I am not a fan of linux anyway.
So use the above method to install your XP cd onto your USB pen.
A few pointers that would have helped me are these.
When you start this method to install XP make sure the first thing you do is set in the BIOS <f10> to boot from USB drive as default 1, you will get HAL errors if you do not do this, also set in the bios SATA composite rather than native, you can use 4GB USB memory sticks, I used a 4gb Sandisk Cruzer which is a very popular one and fast, just use the PE tool above to do the biz.
The Mini Note comes with 1gb ram and 120gb hdd, runs Windows XP perfect, Office 2003 installs a dream, to remove the boot message about choose operating system it's easy, just load up windows XP, right click on "my computer" choose properties and select the "advanced" tab up the top, click on startup and recover settings, then remove the tick in "time to display list of operating sytems" All done.
So to sum up nake sure bios is set correctly, build USB pen drive you can use 4gb, install XP as per instructions above, reboot after install and choose GUI boot not txt boot, then you good to go, download the drivers from HP website.
most appreciated.
I got part way through installing and then when XP ask me for the serial i realised i had lost it, i then decided that i would my other CD as i had the serial handy.
When trying to re do the steps i got back to the install and it try to continue, how would i go about formating the hp mini to start again?
Thanks!
Thank you so much!!!
I have an Asus Eee 900 with Linux, 512 RAM and 4Gb hard drive. Will all this procedure work for this model?
Thanks
But i have one problem...
I can only start the windows with my usb key plugged in the notebook... If i unplug it and restart, all i see is just black screen. I think that problem maight be in Boot.ini file. Does anyone know what shall I do?
DESCRIBED ABOVE UNDER SECTION > Preparing the flash drive < > step7. & 8.< /
" Find your Bootsect folder (if you’re not used to DOS commands, you can type “dir” to list directories and files, type “cd foldername” to navigate to a folder name - called foldername in this example, and if there’s a long folder name you can save time by typing the “cd” and just the first few letters and then hitting the Tab key to fill in the rest of the name).
Once you’re in the Bootsect folder, type “bootsect.exe /nt52 g:” if “g” is the letter assigned to your flash drive. If it’s E, then change the letter to e. If it’s Z, make it z. Get it?"
NO , I Don't > where is the Bootsect folder ? is it on the Windows Install disk ?
or in a installed Windows build ? I searched for " bootsect.exe " and it was not in Windows .
NTLDR is missing
Press any key to restart
can you please help me with this
You have done nice job here.
My acer aspire one is ready for a new life now !
This worked perfectly, but I still have an issue with my USB port. Windows doesn't start if ANY pen is plugged in... It can be an empty pen drive, but the usb port MUST be with a pen plugged in... otherwise it gives me a blue screen and windows doesn't starts...
In BIOS I've even disabled the boot from usb, but the error remains...
Can you help me please???
Kind regards
Marisa
I try to install in my minibook - kohjinsha sc3, I choose - 2. text only mode but the screen show "NTLDR is missing, press any key to restart"
Please help me.
Best regards,
The following value in the .SIF file used by Setup is corrupted or missing:
Value 0 on the line in section [SourceDisksFiles] with the key "binifix4.cmd."
http://www.msfn.org/board/lofiversion/index.php...
It worked for me, turns out it is because I have an old version of Windows XP (with no service pack).
but in the PeToUSB window my USB flash did not appear eventhough I clicked refresh button many times. Please help...
The XP-Setup tells me that the installation data can't be loaded.
I tried all the steps three times - what should I do?
Thanks
anyone knows solution to this???
I'd be soooo grateful :-)
1. in usb_prep8 there is choice between usb-stick and usb-harddisk (option 0). I tried both options, my HP always detects it as USB-harddisk though.
2. During copying the files, i get informaton, that file "bootfont.inf" wasn't copied. I wanted to copy it manually, but there's no such file on my XP installation CD.
I only have one more idea - that my flashdisk isn't working properly, I'll try with another one. If that doesn't work, I have really no idea what to do :(
Thanks
Sam
I followed the instructions in 'Preparing the flash drive' and 'Installing XP on the Mini-Note' to make a bootable installation disk for a Samsung NC20 (12" Netbook with VIA Nano processor). I used the CD drive of another machine to copy the recovery CD from Samsung. It worked great. Fortunately I used a smaller size partition for Windoze and left the rest of the disk free. The files from driver DVD (not a CD) from Samsung was copied to a USB stick. It had a bloated driver installer with some junk software (Macafee, UCam etc, recovery program). I opted out those and could install the rest. Now comes installing Linux. I wished to try Gentoo this time. UNetBooin running on Windoze, is a real time saver to make bootable USB installatiion disk for many Linux distros. It is pretty straight forward - download UNetBootin from Sourceforge, select the distro from net or a downloaded ISO image, insert USB stick and start. In 5 minutes I got to try different distributions. But no luck after spending a night with Gentoo. That is the maximum I could patiently spend to get it working. Ubuntu Jaunty and Ubuntu Netbook Remix did not install out of the box for me. I did not spend much time. Finally my tried and tested Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04LTS) booted and detected my WLAN card. Brilliant! Now I am going to install it. Hope it goes well. So I am skipping PartMagic portion.
Sad thing is that I wasted a little too much time trying other ways before reaching here. So I am leaving some keywords here for other users to reach here.
Thanks a lot Brad Linder,
geo
Thanks a lot is what can I say.
btw, if i can borrow an external usb dvd drive, can i use it instead and run the reinstalling of windows xp pro with SP3 with no problems?
thanks man
link...
http://vista3g.vortex-eg.com/index.php
http://vista3g.vortex-eg.com/download.php
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL
my hp+compaq notebook had a malfuction one night and would not boot after that. there is no disk drives on it so i had to find help this way
THANK YOU SO MUCH.
http://depositfiles.com/ru/files/kcnd005tt
- Best Windows XP usb flash edition 2009.
One thing is concerning me: You write that the intallation will start with formatting the disk. That's something I'm sure I don't like.
At another PC it was possible to install WinXP-CN next to WinXP-NL on a seperate partition.
Just try to install - without format - and look what will happen???
What is your opinion??
I am having problem when I try to install XP Prof with USB.
I was able to make the USB stick and boot my HP Mini 2140 but it does recognize my SATA HDD. I checked on HP site and downloaded the drivers on another USB stick and hot F6 for additional driver option during the install startup but it always look for disk in A: drive and does not read my other USB stick for the drivers.
Any ideas?
Thanks
the command “bootsect.exe /nt52 g:” isn't working in DOS. I am getting a message that bootsect is not a recognized internal or external command. What do I do now?
i get the msg D: is not a valid drive..im using a kingston 2 gb flash drive..i did everytng as u mentioned n i redid all the steps to no avail..im using a vista..plzz help me out..thanxx in advance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vt_8p0VllY
The following value in the .SIF file used by Setup is corrupted or missing:
Value 0 on the line in section [SourceDisksFiles] with the key "binifix4.cmd."
I've gone through the whole USB setup process 3 times and always get the same error - what can I do?
For those who faces the problem below, this is due to you are using USB DISK PRO, which formatted your USB to FDD and HDD. And you have set to boot with FDD first, that's why NTLDR cannot be found from FDD.
NTLDR is missing
Press any key to restart
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XV2WJEY3 )
On line 194 it is written;
set _ok=
After that program is echoing echo ***** Target USB-Drive !_ok!: does NOT Exist *****
You can add manualy your USB drive letter as
set _ok= F:\
or
"%usbdrive%" = F:\
i put knoppix on my usb drive, booted into knoppix, changed the rdisk from 1 to 0 like it should be and reloaded my usb with windows and let the os install fiinish, then redid grub, giving me a dual boot system, preserving my old partitions, it's not very difficult. Just edit that boot.ini (you can't do it from the recovery console because there is no "edit" program from the recovery console).
Hope it wont crash again because of that damaged hal.dll thing!
Thanks again,
Dx
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/5100-22_11...
I've curious if it's the same as your method. I could not reformat my Hpmini110 preloaded linux with the link above. It recognises the thumb drive but when it boots through the thumb drive it goes back back to the linux desktop. Any ideas?
I'm yet to try your method when I'm free.
Saludos desde Argentina
I did everything step by step as listed and at the end, I can't boot the Windows XP from hard drive, only when I select booting from USB and then GUI. I changed the boot.ini line as well but that didn't help and frankly I don't know why would it.
When I try to boot from HDD, I receive a message:
"Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware. Please check the Windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your reference manuals for additional information"
Any ideas?
- I can't boot from HDD
- I can't boot from USB
either way I'm stuck with one error or the other. I can't seem to reinstall XP either as all attemps of selecting boot from USB end with the error (as Windows tries to load the system from the drive)
ANY IDEAS?
I hope it works :D and in general thankyou for the advice on how to do it.
http://www.itoperationz.com/2009/10/install-win...
Desktop is hanging on the boot sequence, surely selecting the USB boot but then the underscore is stuck flashing like it's not going anywhere... I chose to do this with the USB key because it seems my Win XP cd is corrupted... or the drive is dead! At the end of every install I've attempted, I get a HAL problem and I'm asked to reboot.
I somehow doubt the BIOS update I had done caused this problem.
I've also tried several linux flavors to see where the problem might be at but also no avail there.
Very odd at the very least...
Good luck!
HP is really ridiculous giving people a "recovery cd" that is all but worthless. How many users own an external usb optical drive?? They should give a recovery usb key.
Small note: Even if my boot.ini said multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1), msconfig kept telling me that the path is not valid and asked if I want to delete the line. Since I had the backup of boot.ini file, I've decided to give it a try and it works fine.
Second thing: WinToFlash thingy didn't work for me - the installation was crashing at EULA part with result: EULA not found ;)
Third thing: Dunno why, but bootable iso file created by nLite crashed the installation process - some files were missing. The same nLited winXP, but burnt with Nero Burning Rom worked fine.
Fourth thing: You don't have to burn the files to CD - you can use virtual drive aswell - it will work without any problems ;)
I've used 2GB Kingston DataTraveler stick ;) - worked perfectly without any problems ;)
Thanks a lot for the walkthrough!
I did format my card using the Novicorp WinToFlash and got all my Windows files on to the usb, but half way through the install it says (setup cannot copy the file: _default.pif) now if im getting stuck at part 4 should i just give up?
thanks in advance
Thanks again!