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Most difficult part was making a 1gig partition on the USB key. After a lot of dead ends, i managed to perfect xp usb instalations — even on my 4gb eee Had no issues at all!
You solved all my problems, thanks! Thanks for the tutorial! All I can say is that you are a huge help.. You on the other hand have created such a detailed and wonderful guide.. Kudos to you man.. You rock!! You are damn great! Highly recommended! I just have one request. Haha, Can you make similar tutorial which applies for vista and windows 7. That will be highly appreciated, Thanks mate.
I have followed this tutorial twice. I had Ubuntu 9. Everything works up until it starts in BartPE. I go to create the partitions on the drive and, lo and behold, I have no drives to select from. Someone please help…. Ok, figured it out. Thanks Roderick!!!
No probs and worked like a charm! So, it works……. I then tried to take the same usb drive over to my band new Asus CM desktop 64bit machine, brand new , and when I select the USB drive to boot from, absolutely nothing happens. I know the thumb drive works!!! Proper boot orders are selected in the BIOS and everything.. You just have to assign a drive letter with DiskPart! Pay attention because a wrong command can wipe out your usb drive!
BartPE already started 2. You hot-plug the usb device 3. Start DiskPart 4. Type list disk 5. Type select disk is the number of the USB disk, usually the one different from 0, but there may be more or different configurations 6. Type detail disk 7. Type select volume is the number of the volume you need, you can see the size in the detail list 8. Type assign 9. Thanks for the instructions. I am trying to reinstall Windows XP on a netbook that recently had Ubuntu installed on it.
I have tried the method from Tech Republic over a hundred times already but it is only close to this working one. Then you must also copy the i folder from the Windows CD to your flash drive to install it. May be a little more complicated for non-technical users. Thank you so much Roderick! Expand and copy ramdisk. Can someone explain this to me or what to do with these folders please? One more thing, I did everything people have suggested here and all the steps.
BartPE starts just fine, but when I want to start the installation, it can not find winnt. So far so good. Only thing is I did it on a 2gb flash drive…seemed to work ok for me. After I read the comment about it not being anymore then 1gb I was freaking out. It will only format and repartition the whole drive as one.
So I was going crazy, since most of the programs I tried failed horribly. Now Im not saying your wrong, just maybe add it in as a adviser that someone used a 2gb and it worked fine:. Thank You so very much for this. My application is a little different from this scenario though. I needed to reinstall winxp, because I bought a Kohjinsha e book while I was in Japan. I used it for a while in Japanese but it just got irritating using the japanese menus and not really knowing if Im clicking the right thing.
Anyways, thanks again very helpful! Thanks for the great guide! When we are riding from the ramdisk loader, we are not dependant any USB vendor windows driver from resettings the USB bus. With storage drivers you have to be careful, they are needed in Text mode when the PC is in installation infancy and also in GUI mode when WIndows has grown up during installation.
OEM and comment out the drivers you do not need. OEM file was edited to comment out with a sign the drivers I do not need for my Netbook. Just make sure you use the proper storage driver for your Netbook! Then you can build your BartPE and it should now be able to access your hard drive in your Netbook. One additional tip… I also used nLite to slipstream the AHCI and other drivers into my XP installation folder before step 11 where you copy the files to use to install on your Netbook.
Had to create a 1GB partition on flash in Linux fdisk. Thanks a lot, great guide! Works also fine with an unattended file. I used a nLite generated folder where i added additional drivers and information for an unattended setup.
Read this how-to guide. I was in your same shoes, […]. Used this method and worked first time for me. How can they be installed? Any suggestions or help are welcome.
Greeting from Jakarta, Indonesia. Thank you so much. It worked at first attempt. Builder has stopped because there are 4 build errors Building done… There where 4 errors and 11 warnings. I followed your steps.
But no matter what I do when I try and run the 1. I must be missing something. Please advise. The notebook pc i was working on was acting stupid and not reading my boot DVD even though the same boot DVD worked in another notebook, same model number, exactly the same notebook pc. So i had no other choice to boot from USB, since it has no floppy drive and this notebook model supports booting from USB.. So I followed this guide and found that a43 file manager lets me work with properties of files!
So I unchecked the filecompression box and rebooted and it worked! Thank you so much for this guide. Although it took me a few tries for some reason, I finally got the laptop to boot the USB drive, only to discover I copied the i folder from the Windows Server Service Pack instead of my XP install.
So a quick change back to my working computer and I got it sorted. I have followed the guide and done everything properly. I moved my usb stick in the bios ahead of my hardrives. The only thing I can think of is that my 1GB stick may not be able to be used to boot off of and that this may have been the problem for the others too.
I believe it has to do with the boot. There is a line or more than one line in the file that says:. I was trying to install xp on my third partition because i am using drives c and d, i am going to install xp on drive e , so the 1 has to be a 3 like this:.
I have also done a lot of reading in the meantime to find out that this may make a huge difference. I dont know if this will work for this guide because I went on to find a different way of installing xp with a usb stick. Hi, I tried to install windows xp prof on my netbook Acer Aspire D It is a brand new netbook with windows XP home edition install on it.
What I need is the driver out from the hidden recovery partition. I got these on my hand: a. What I did was: 1. Rather than guessing, creating a driver disk is a handy solution since it only contains the driver of the HW installed on your system.
I needed this for a Dell E whose optical drive was not powering up. In flashboot, I had to use emulation. This allowed the usb to boot up fine.
Installing as I type this. It all worked great.. NOTE1: As someone stated.. Harddisk gets drive letter D if no drive has letter C, the usb occupies that. Create partion s and restart and that will sort it. NOTE 2: if you have a 1 meg mem drive and wanna install bigger stuff.. Do you object if I blog something about this blog? Roderick, I did everything you told us in your tips, and all worked like a charm. Even though I slipstreamed the drivers onto a CD with nLite, still had issues not finding the drive.
Only comment would be that it was not clear what i files needed to be copied. But will leave that for another day. Nice one , this worked beautifully on my acer revo nettop — was having crazy problems getting it to work with all the other methods. Try to install Windows XP on a Compac nc Run into the same NTOS problem as described a few times above. Error code My computer says:. Anybody have a solution? I was stupid and had an external HD plugged into the laptop while I was trying to install it.
Thanks anyways! Thanks a lot!!! Nice bro! Is something wrong with my USB Drive? After spending 2 days trying to use other methods for installing from USB, this procedure worked for me perfectly! My first attempt at building BartPE gave me a warning about using an OEM disk, and even though it did build, it did not work. I just happened to have a genuine Windows XP CD with no service packs , so used that and followed the instructions for incorporating SP2.
I also did have an issue with my Product Key coming up as invalid. Had to use the product key from the genuine Windows XP disk. At least I assume this is the explanation. BartPE rocks. I totally forgot that I had used it 5 years ago to revive a totally screwed up XP installation on a laptop.
Wow, this really worked. Got errors with SP3. If it is, then repartition it using Computer Management in the Control Panel. I am trying for past 3 hours with all kind of tools to get the partition of my USB-stick below 1Gb, but none of the tools allow me to alter the USB-stick partitions.
Redid it with the SP1 files and it just worked. Hey just wanted to say like everyone else, excellent guide!!!! Awesome guide! Very rubbish guide to be honest. So many things are weird. You said copy the i folder to the usb but it was hard to finally understand which of the 3 i folders u are talking about.
Why did I need the windows server and stuff if it never was used on the usb stick? I just did those things and they never got touched. PS: Also an old laptop with a broken cd-player, crashed HDD replaced it , broken mousepad and a battery that died many years ago. If DiskPart seems not to run i. In that case, run the following two commands from the command prompt:. Thank you for your work. I did have an issue where winnt This was on a Dell Inspiron B Ran grub-update and it found the XP loader.
Rebooted, used GRUB to continue installation and all went well. Note: the usb startup disk failed to load the disk driver on boot. The hardest part was partitioning a 2Gb usb stick down to 1Gb. I have no boot menu on my laptop. And installation Windows 7 DVD was scratched. Must be very satisfying to be still getting feedback and interest in this article.
I found it because my problem was identical to the scenario you describe at the top. Thank you for your efforts! It took a few tries to get it working, but once I got an error free compile from BartPE it worked beautifully. Question: have you tried replacing bartpe. I tried messing around with the tif file but it seems that BartPE uses Windows shell extensions to load its environment so when I replace bart with something else I get errors….
Then I needed to install XP again. I was a bit worried that I might have to re-do all these steps since the drive had been formatted. I believe its because to install Windows 7 I had to create a boot sector on the drive which works for the XP install as well. Although the steps were different, the end result is the same. This is a great guide.
Once you stick with it took me an hour or two the first time , you can install XP whenever you want and on almost any machine.
But the process is intellectually engaging, so thanks for the links! This was an awesome guide! I had a few snags, that with help from Google and my own years of technical support knowledge I was able to iron out.
Otherwise this was the best guide I have found! Hey Roderick. Great job. Does require a bit of electronic finesse, but anyway with some basic pc knowledge can do this.
Thank you so much! I needed this! Thanks in advance…. REgards, Suyog….. I will also recommend flashboot. Tried BartPe multiple times but it never go to booting the system. Flashboot trial worked out of box. Process was simple click and go! After many many Internet searches, I finally found this post which solved my problem. Super thanks!
Only few comments: 1. It workes with SP3 as well. So, it is not necessary to integrate either with SP1 or SP2. EXE failed to load. The error code is With SP2 and SP3, it was allright! See you! Build you bartPE directory as above 2. Copy over the I directory of your windows installation and then continue with the remainder of the tutorial with installing windows. The article presents clear steps. In pebuilder. Also when running pe2usb, the process stopped with mkfsiso error, it couldnt access setuphiv file.
I looked at setuphiv with Unlocker and it was used by two thread. You can simply use this pre-built disk i found on neosmart and it works like a charm, just download and burn, either on cd or USB. Excellent guide. I just opened it with WinRar instead and extracted it to the correct folder and everything ran smoothly. Thanx for a phantastic description and easy to use program. Lots of respect from Sweden!
Awesome tip sheet, worked as advertised with zero trouble, 2gb stick, from xp original disk upped to sp2 per your instructions. Hello, I have a Samsung n with Windows 7 installed and the hard drive is partitioned in two parts.
If i try to run Diskpart, it just opens a window for like half of a second and then closes and nothing happens. If i try to format the drives i right-click on the drive and choose format and again the drop-down menu disappears but nothing happens.
Which is it? You only need 2 tiny files… do NOT waste your time downloading the massive Server full edition. This worked for me after trying to use multiboot 10 to do the same thing and failing. For those confused about what it means when he says to unpack files, go into the windows command prompt, and type in what Bart says to type. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.
Close Menu Home. Enter the cavalry. Disclaimer The procedure here is provided without any warranty or support whatsoever. I want to install XP! I strongly recommend you to use such a vanilla CD. Users have reported strange happenings with custom XP distributions. Install BartPE. This will destroy any data on your USB drive!
If no errors occurred in the process, you should now be all set to boot from USB! Instructions for doing so wildly from system to system, but generally entail the following: Reboot the system. Hotkey instructions are generally provided on the screen. Go to the section that has your boot devices. Assuming that it is supported as happens with almost all modern hardware , promote your USB drive to the primary boot device. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes.
Is the USB device listed and does it have top priority? Have you correctly prepared the USB disk in step two? Restart the procedure. Does your USB stick properly support being booted from? Try another one! Step Five: Prepping the Hard Disk You need to make sure that your hard drive is partitioned and formatted properly.
This procedure will destroy any data on the hard drive. To repartition: From the Go menu, navigate to DiskPart. Enter the commands needed to repartition your drive. For example, try the following: select disk 0 select the first disk , clean purges the entire drive, essentially resetting it , create partition primary creates a single partition from the entire disk , assign assign the partition a drive letter , exit quits DiskPart.
Right-click on the target drive e. C: and click Format. Should be self-explanatory. Replace C: with the drive you want to install Windows to. Like Loading Thanks again Regards Paul P Loading Hello Roderick, this guide is excellent. All was very clear and worked very good. Thank you. Best Regards. Everything seemed to work until I try to boot the system when I get the following Remove disks or other media.
Press any key to restart I do have another USB stick with a DOS boot on it that works fine and is the same make and model as the one I am useing for XP and have even tried useing that one with the same results. Thanks for this wonderful guide, I am going to try your method now!
Win XP does work but… you cant use your pen… th attempt in progress! Hi I have tried this and got to the stage where to usb stick allows a boot up til I get missing or corrupt txtsetup. Waheed Loading Thanks so much Loading Press any key to restart. I want to answer to the problem: Remove disks or other media. Thank you, saved my old laptop with malfunctioning dvd drive.
Could you help me? Thanks to all. Great Roderick!!! I have a flybook v33i Loading I had issues with this with my 4G U3 flash drive, until I 1 Removed the u3 partition — in windows, assign a letter in disk management to the 5M U3 partition.
Open the drive, extract the removal program to a disk, and run it to remove the U3 contents and delete the partition 2 Created a 1G FAT partition, in Linux with fdisk, and formatted it with mkdosfs -F 16 Then it worked. Thanks a lot… Loading Your tutorial is the best! Best regards, Michael. Any idea? TNX Loading I had a missing plugin. Is this important? So I manually copied it to the location.
Does anybody know, what seems to be the problem? Thanks for the help… Loading However, I found winnt Does anybody know, how to fix this problem? Hello, from Spain. Thanks again. Your help is very much appreciated Loading Thanks for any help Loading Hello, Excellent guide, and sincere thanks for it.
Thanks a lot for this great gude — everything worked just fine! Tomi Loading I know that D is the USB device. Absolutely fantastic guide! Not working at all for 64bit winxp version. What about 64bit? Got it. This worked first try. Thanks for the awesome tutorial! Awesome tutorial, worked like a dream! Thanks for sharing. Am I missing something simple and obvious? Dude: you rocks. Any suggestions? Hope that helps Loading Thanks a million! Thanks again, this tutorial worked beautifully and the install went flawlessly!!
Berge Loading Thanks so much. Remove Pen Drive and Reboot. Operating System not found. I hope someone can help me!? Went very fine for me Loading Other than that, everything worked flawlessly. This works wonderfully. Again thanks a lot. For all,,, If you have some trouble making bart-pe try again at least 3 times. Many many thanks! If you want to reinstall Windows you can follow these instructions to do it from a USB flash drive, assuming you have access to another computer with a working […] Loading Which I folder do i copy?
Hope this helps someone. Two problems initially. Amil Loading Hi Roderick, I have tried your solution on my Acer Aspire and it works like a charm. Another tip, can be useful. Create a file, named installxp. Thanks for this amazing article, if only I found it sooner! Thanks again! Roderick, Thank you for this great guide! Thank you for this guide, worked like a charm. Anybody,Pls help me…… Loading Hi everyone, Did anyone get an error message saying, i need at least mb to install windows and i cant continue?
Please answer. Thanks big Roddo!! Works awesome! What do I do? Please help me. This guide is awesome…used it a year back and using it now again. Thanks a lot. Simple and quick to non-binding offer. Trusted publisher. Secured web page. Fiscal cashier - summary Comprehensive guide from A to Z before the momentum of fiscal cash registers recommended reading.
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