[mtlroom2]

Hello everybody,
I just tried to use this thing to install winxp on my asus eee and it failed
I had french win7 installed, now I don't have anything and winxp didn't install properly, after reboot the graphical loading progress shows up and then I get BSOD. I tried to boot into safe mode and safe mode command line only and both have the same problem: BSOD.
Anybody has any clues on what could have gone wrong?

[ilko_t]

What's the error code on the blue screen? Something like 0x0000007B ?
When exactly do you get it? First part completes fine, and the second part, the GUI mode bluescreens?
What source are you using? What service pack?
What is SATA mode set in BIOS?

[Georgian]

Hello guys

I have some problem with installing windows xp SP2 with WinSetupFromUSB.

1) I use PQI USB Stick 8GB
2) Windows XP SP2 Original Image

I prepared my usb stick, booted up system from it. Everything seemed to be as it should, but when windows installation asks about on which partition you want to install OS, I got an error:




Please help

Thanks in advance

This post has been edited by Georgian: 13 March 2011 - 07:12 AM

[ilko_t]

http://www.msfn.org/...post__p__954342

If you are using 1.0 versions winnt.sif is in \WINSETUP\xxxxx\i386\.

[Major]

I have made an usb for installing windows 7 unattended. but i have 2 problems which in fact is one problem.
the first problem: when i start the computer it does not ask me to press any key which it has began automatically to load the files to do the installation. (while when i do it from a cd it asks me to press any key)
the second problem: when the installation has finished the first phase, after the system reboots, it loads again the files to redo the installation from the beginning, so it will not never finish the installation.
any suggest on how can i fix this problem?
Thanks

[ilko_t]

Please zip and attach menu.lst from root of the USB stick. Will add a few lines to it.

[Major]

Ok here is the file attached.
The computer where i want to install windows 7 is a netbook packard bell dot se
bios version 3.05
sata: ahci
Thanks

Attached File(s)

•  menu.rar (1.19K)
  Number of downloads: 12

This post has been edited by Major: 15 March 2011 - 07:42 AM

[muryot]

Georgian, on 13 March 2011 - 07:11 AM, said:

Hello guys

I have some problem with installing windows xp SP2 with WinSetupFromUSB.

1) I use PQI USB Stick 8GB
2) Windows XP SP2 Original Image

I prepared my usb stick, booted up system from it. Everything seemed to be as it should, but when windows installation asks about on which partition you want to install OS, I got an error:




Please help

Thanks in advance

It's not an error.
That message is normal when you use an "Upgrade" version of XP disc.
Examples of "Upgrade" versions:
CD Label: VRMPCCP_EN...........Description: Windows XP Professional (SP2) Upgrade
CD Label: VRMHCCP_EN...........Description: Windows XP Home (SP2) Upgrade

All you need to do is insert an older version of windows CD in the cd drive and it will continue the installation of your new XP OS.

This post has been edited by muryot: 15 March 2011 - 05:18 AM

[ilko_t]

Major, on 15 March 2011 - 04:11 AM, said:

Ok here is the file attached.
The computer where i want to install windows 7 is a netbook packard bell dot se
bios version 3.05
sata: ahci
Thanks

Extract and replace with the attached.
It will set the last boot menu (Start first internal disk) as default and will start it in 10 seconds if no key is pressed. If you need to start Setup again, you'll have to manually select Start Vista/7/2008 setup...

muryot, on 15 March 2011 - 05:17 AM, said:

...All you need to do is insert an older version of windows CD in the cd drive and it will continue the installation of your new XP OS.

And because it's a bit tricky to do that on netbook and the likes, the way around is an entry in winnt.sif, but user has to agree to Microsoft terms and conditions in order to use it.

Attached File(s)

•  menu.zip (1.28K)
  Number of downloads: 17

[Major]

Thanks very much @ilko_t , It has worked well.
I have only one question:
I have seen during the unattended installation, it prompts with the dialog: open file - security warning when it executes some .exe files, then i press ok to continue with the installation of the program.
That dialog has never appeared during other installations i have done via cd/dvd
do you have any suggest please? thanks

[ilko_t]

No clue on this one. I would ask in the unnatened Vista/7 forum.

[Georgian]

ilko_t, on 13 March 2011 - 01:53 PM, said:

http://www.msfn.org/...post__p__954342

If you are using 1.0 versions winnt.sif is in \WINSETUP\xxxxx\i386\.

Thanks for responding, I'll try it soon...

muryot, on 15 March 2011 - 05:17 AM, said:

It's not an error.
That message is normal when you use an "Upgrade" version of XP disc.
Examples of "Upgrade" versions:
CD Label: VRMPCCP_EN...........Description: Windows XP Professional (SP2) Upgrade
CD Label: VRMHCCP_EN...........Description: Windows XP Home (SP2) Upgrade

All you need to do is insert an older version of windows CD in the cd drive and it will continue the installation of your new XP OS.

The problem is that I use original Windows XP Installation CD (tried two different images, with sp2 and sp3), not upgrade version. The PC I was trying to install XP with that method doesn't have a CD-ROM. I've already installed OS,that's not a problem (with different method), but I'm still interested in fixing this error.

[akshar]

hi....
i want to reinstall and upgrade some of my hard drives ...but i have no CD drives ......
i want to install win xp using USB pendrive (4 gb)....

can u plz tell me step by step procedure ...how to install xp setup in usb...etc ,etc with the help of the 1.0beta7 version of Winsetup software .



desperate for ur answers,



regards ,
akshar (india)

[ilko_t]

Well, lets try step by step:

1) Download the latest version
2) Extract all files somewhere using 7-zip, use 7-zip, other programs seems to incorrectly extract sometimes 7zip archives.
3) Run the program
4) Format the USB stick with the tools included, RMPrepUSB ot BootIce.
5) Put a checkmark on appropriate field
6) Press the "..." button to browse for your source in the same field. Select the root directory of I386, not I386 itself.
7) Press GO and wait until finished
8) Plug the USB stick wherever you want to install
9) Select to boot from USB
10) Carry on, read boot menus

You could also keep the mouse over each element in the program, a tooltip with brief explanation will pop up.

[Joshatdot]

gutbuster_guy, on 26 September 2009 - 10:37 AM, said:

well i have got a big problem
I used the utility to setup my 1gb san disk cruzer into a bootable pen drive
whenever i start my pc with the penddrive plugged in i reach the point where i enter the "first part"
after that the blue screen with the heading "Windows Setup" on the top left
now at the point when it says 'Setup is loading Windows" the process kind of stucks and ends with an BSOD error "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME"
please help as it'll be a week without my pc working

that error: UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME .. is from formatting the USB flash with NTFS ..

I got the same error with my stick formatted to NFTS .. when I booted with a different stick formatted with FAT32, I did not get the BSoD error.

edit: my OCZ Rally2 was prep'd with 1.07b and NTFS .. and was getting that error. Now I redid my OCZ with 0.23 and NTFS boots correctly .. no STOP UNMOUNTABLE 0xED errors .. and it is copying files after format FAST!

This post has been edited by Joshatdot: 07 April 2011 - 02:38 AM

[Joshatdot]

Robou, on 08 February 2011 - 11:36 AM, said:

For years it's gone well, Nlited XP installation with DP and updates integrated. RMUSBPrep NTFS, 2 partitions, then WinSetupFromUSB.
This installed beautifully on a pre-partitioned harddrive with three primary partitions by means of a lot of scripts and .reg files. In this way it finished with a System drive, a Data drive and a Misc drive, the latter for all the to-do installation sources and being FAT32, fully accessible..

The 2GB Sandisk Cruzer I used became too small for the purpose so I decided to use a bigger one, had some PQI's laying around and a unknown brand.
None of them does the intended job: With the PQI's the initial start of Windows gives a BSOD as Unmountable_Boot_Volume with stop error ED and the undefined one is mounted with drive letter D in stead of U,V or W, which renders it unusable because my scripts expect C, D and E for the hard drive partitions.

The Sandisk acts as expected with exactly the same procedure and computer. The versions of WinSetupFromUSB differ only in the fact that Beta7 works with a Asus-based laptop as was meant by the developer (Except for the hybrid video of course, but this is a matter of DP). RMPrep was tried with many possible combinations of Filesystems and Overrides, reducing size if appropriate.

Two logs are in the attached archive: One for the PQI and one for the unknown brand. After days of struggle I sincerely hope someone can tell me where I'm goofing. It should be me, nowhere I found a clue to similar problems. I suspect the firmware in the sticks used. But then, there's no problem in booting.

I got this same error with booting with my USB stick formatted with NTFS .. when I booted with a different stick, formatted with FAT32, I did not get the error & continued with Setup.

edit: my OCZ Rally2 was prep'd with 1.07b and NTFS .. and was getting that error. Now I redid my OCZ with 0.23 and NTFS boots correctly .. no STOP UNMOUNTABLE 0xED errors .. and it is copying files after format FAST!

This post has been edited by Joshatdot: 07 April 2011 - 02:38 AM

[Joshatdot]

I just redid my OCZ Rally2 Turbo with 1.07b, formatted with BOOTICE to FAT32 @ 2048 LBA (and 63 LBA) .. the Initial Setup (loading the Setup Executable, Drivers, etc...) was very v-e-r-y s-l-o-w . . .

My older Memorex 2GB stick was done with 0.23 @ FAT32 (and I think LBA 63) .. and it loaded Setup and the drivers very fast .. it was only slow copying files after Formatting the HD.

I am now re-redoing my OCZ with 0.23 with RMPrepUSB, FAT32, Boot as HDD (2PNTS), XP Bootable [NTLDR] .. and we'll see if that is faster.


edit: this time it is MUCH faster loading the Setup files & Drivers .. and I am guessing that it is FAT32 .. copying files after HDD format .. it is slow. I do not remember how fast that was when it was NTFS.

Now I am tempted to try 0.23 with my OCZ with NTFS...

edit2: 0.23 with NTFS boots correctly .. no STOP UNMOUNTABLE 0xED errors .. and it is copying files after format FAST!

This post has been edited by Joshatdot: 07 April 2011 - 02:28 AM

[daddo1980]

hi!
first of all thanks for the great job, i tried it already on a normal usb stick (4GB) and it worked perfectly!!!

but i have the following problems:
if manually install grub4dos (the one inside the last release of your software) on another stick, then copy the files from the first usbstick (the one i made before with your software) to the second one...
sometimes works,
sometimes not...
giving me errors such "cant find FILENAME.XXX and the installation cant go on" in the first minute of windows XP setup... while loading drivers and stuff....

u may ask why im doing this... seems useless, right?

well, i have a third usbstick... a 16GB pendrive.
i made 2 partitions FAT32, from ubuntu, and i would like to put the installation files of xp in the second partition (that will be hidden in windows)
so that i can use, fill, delete and even format the first partition... (about 14gb)...

but copying the files as i did before... it doesnt work at all...
as soon as i choose "first part of win xp setup", in a second, it show up this error:
unable to load the file \winsetup\xppsp3\i386\biosinfo.inf
error code 18

and then cant go on....

well, i understood its trying to find the setup files in the first partition (0) and instead they are in the second partition (1)
i checked the files *.cfg of grub... but i didnt find something easily changeable to solve this problem...

so my request is....
what can i modify to make the installation work on the second partition of my pen drive?
all the files are already inside, including grub4dos....

thankssssssssssssssssss

[ilko_t]

@Joshatdot

I don't get the point and can't make sense of these reports, thanks for sharing, but is there some conclusion?
NTFS on 0.x.x. versions is ways faster, have a look:
http://www.msfn.org/...d-on-usb-stick/

On 1.x versions file system should not matter that much, except when preparing the stick.

The difference between both versions is that in method used in 0.x.x versions Setup attempts to delete the files as they are copied, due to NTFS cache speed is much faster, in XP and 2003.

In 1.X versions another method is used and files are not attempted to be deleted, hence NTFS does not improve speed during file copy stage in Text mode.
As for the loading part up to the "Setup is starting" I really doubt there is sugnificant difference in speeds, plus it should not be that important whether Setup starts for 20 or 40 seconds, not a big deal.

@daddo1980

Default Windows sees only the first partition on drives which are seen as removable. To be able to use the second partition you either need a filter driver which "fools" Windows into thinking that is a fixed(basic) drive, or if possible on that particular stick the removable bit could be flipped to fixed. Have a little search in the subforum, this has been discussed numerous times in depth.

[daddo1980]

@ilko_t

thanks for the fast reply...
actually i already tried that, after i asked here...
using this driver http://www.getusb.in...B_LocalDisk.zip

the driver works, i made the 2 partitions FAT32 from windows xp...
and made the installation on the second partition with your software...

but i have 2 problems...

1) it install the "boot files" on the first partition and the "installation files" (only the WINSETUP folder) on the second one.... (if a part of them is on the first partition.. is not what i hope... =( )
2) anyway, trying it, on the boot appears the grub4dos... i chose windows installation... first part of installation.... but it says "error 15: File not found" and then is over....

after i read your message, i tried again... (to be sure) but with exactly the same result

what can i do next?