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Formatting with FAT16 and pulling the image from the HDD worked. I am guessing that it was the file system that made the difference. Thanks for the help, Brett.

What version of HP USB format tool did you use? Is it the one coming with the older versions of the program or you downloaded it manually from elsewhere?Later versions than 2.0.6 of this tool "forget" to set active partition, hence WSFUSB won't detect it as properly formatted. This has nothing to do with the program, its version etc. USB stick is simply not booting on that particular motherboard formatted in that way. This means what contents on USB stick are is irrelevant.Try different file system- FAT16, FAT32 etc. Try upgrading your BIOS if possible. Test on another machine. I was using v2.1.8 when I did it manually, and whatever version was included in WinSetupFromUSB 0.1.1. The machine that gave me the blank screen with the cursor is a Samsung NC10 Netbook, and I would have thought that it should be able to boot NTFS. I am doing another image now with FAT16 and pulling the install files from the HDD rather than the CD. Let's see if that works. Regards, Brett.

Hi guys, I have used both the current version of WinSetupFromUSB and 0.1.1 integrated with HP USB in an attempt to create a USB stick to install XP from. The current version won't recognise my 1G flash drive when I format it manually with HP USB as NTFS, so I have to use RMPrepUSB to format it. What is more disturbing though is that both versions result in nothing more than a blank screen with a flashing cursor after I have installed the install files onto the NTFS formated flash disk with WinSetupFromUSB. What could be causing this problem? The one thing that I did differently to some of the tutorials is that I pointed WinSetupFromUSB to my CD drive to find the install files, rather than creating a folder on my machine and copying all the files into that first. Would that have made any difference? Is the install more likely to work if I format with FAT16 or FAT32? Regards, Brett.