[littlebuddha]

Hello!

First - it is amazing guys, you deserve everything good, you work really hard for this. Im reading from since 2 days, Im amazed

I have a problem with usb_prep, and couldnt solve this - read nearly everything, but still couldnt solve - so I need some help from you guys.

I just got a Vaio TZ91 japanase, with only a 64gb SSD disk, no cdrom, no floppy.

So I want to install windows XP from USB key! It is really fun trying to do this

1- My laptop boots from USB stick
2- I choose TXT setup
3- I create partition C, but not format, quit with F3
4- Again I choose TXT setup, this time I choose C and format with quick NTFS format, and it copies files
5- I choose GUI setup, it starts but then I get error:

Windows couldnt find the file: asms
and it is trying to look for it (I will write exact error next time, now formatted usb again)
GLOBAL/ROOT??/&WINNT&-LS

something
If I change this:
U:/&WINNT&-LS
U is my usb stick

then it accepts, abut asks again for another file.
Even I enter manually U:/&WINNet... everytime - after a while, it couldnt find files like NT5.CAT etc

I think the problem is, in GUI mode it cant get the i386 files folder, what I do wrong, do you have any idea?

Thanks a lot from now on!
Best

Edit: I use a HP 4GB USB Stick as for usb drive

This post has been edited by littlebuddha: 25 January 2008 - 05:49 AM

[wimb]

littlebuddha, on Jan 25 2008, 12:37 PM, said:

Windows couldnt find the file: asms
and it is trying to look for it (I will write exact error next time, now formatted usb again)
GLOBAL/ROOT??/&WINNT&-LS

Quite strange .... It should look in the Root for folder $WIN_NT$.~LS
What did make the difference .... Japanese .... ?

May be you can Change some BIOS Setting ?

You can also check what is the actual foldername written at the harddisk,
which you can find out by Booting with BartPE and have a look with a FileManager.

What Type of XP Source do you use ( XP Type, Slipstream Method, Removed Folders and Language ) ?

wimb

This post has been edited by wimb: 25 January 2008 - 07:45 AM

[littlebuddha]

Now Im using your last version, multi boot version, with a standart XP SP2 Will let you know the results with exact error messages!

Thanks to you wimb, for your great efforts, also ilko, jalacz, and everybody.

Best!

[Cobravox]

Concerning file asms-problem, I solved this by manually copying ASMS-folder and contents from source to USB-stick.
That solved the problem. Hope this will help also for you.

[wimb]

Cobravox, on Jan 26 2008, 10:40 PM, said:

Concerning file asms-problem, I solved this by manually copying ASMS-folder and contents from source to USB-stick.
That solved the problem. Hope this will help also for you.

USB_MultiBoot2.cmd copies the COMPLETE XP Source
including ASMS-folder to Folder $WIN_NT$.~LS on USB-Drive.