[lucnex]

Do i need to burn the .ISO to a disk or can I just choose that ISO as my source?

[baritone]

why cant you runs syslinux on a ntfs flashdrive???
i tried it with kubuntu and manual added the info to menu.lst and it worked great.
can i use a external 2.5 drive with this or only flashdrive
what do you think about the ocz rally2 16gb drive?????

[ilko_t]

lucnex, on Jul 1 2009, 01:36 PM, said:

Do i need to burn the .ISO to a disk or can I just choose that ISO as my source?

You may extract the ISO somewhere rather than burning it. 7z from http://www.7-zip.org/ is a great tool, supporting ISO format too.
Other way around is to mount the ISO- the freeware ImDisk is perfect for the purpose.
http://www.ltr-data....ode.html#ImDisk

baritone, on Jul 1 2009, 10:14 PM, said:

why cant you runs syslinux on a ntfs flashdrive???
i tried it with kubuntu and manual added the info to menu.lst and it worked great.
can i use a external 2.5 drive with this or only flashdrive
what do you think about the ocz rally2 16gb drive?????

Because syslinux.exe, used to save syslinux bootsector as a file, which can be chainloaded by grub4dos doesn't seem to like NTFS, using the latest 3.82:

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C:\WinSetup\temp1>syslinux.exe -rf h: syslin.dat
this doesn't look like a valid FAT filesystem

C:\WinSetup\temp1>

Not sure how and where you installed syslinux, maybe more details could help

You can use external USB disk, but x64 versions of XP and 2003, as well as 32bit 2003 cannot be installed using this program, not without some manual interventions during setup.

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what do you think about the ocz rally2 16gb drive

Cannot help here.

[kensuguro]

How do I control whether the resulting USB loads menu.lst or boot.ini? I installed XP on my MSI wind, and the install finished, but I nlited it wrong and the installation is unusable. I created another bootable USB, and now I only see the menu from boot.ini, and can't get back to the first part.

[ilko_t]

Have a look at this thread:
http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=135202

[ilko_t]

Version 0.2.3 released.
Please refer to the first post for download links.

[voidseesaw]

This is the greatest thing ever. I'm wondering why more programmers or companies have not embraced this concept yet? There are so many possibilities...

[Jouven]

I don't know if it is already notified, but I've got an 2,5" HD 500gb hard disk in a 2,5" case. I did two (primary) partitions one of 16GB and another partition with the rest of the space for data (so in computer management --> disk management the disk is recognized as a basic disk).
I used a nlite source and created, with the winsetupfromusb, an installation in the first partition of the disk, booted from the usb and all the installation went fine, first boot, second boot... all fine. Then it happens that this installation of windows xp recognizes this disk as removable media (my latop, work computer still recognize it as a basic disk) so the second partition dissapears (only for this windows xp installation) and there is no way AFAIK to change it. In the end I reinstalled using the normal nlited CD installation (wich recognizes the HD as a basic disk).

[jaclaz]

Jouven, on Jul 12 2009, 02:23 PM, said:

Then it happens that this installation of windows xp recognizes this disk as removable media (my latop, work computer still recognize it as a basic disk) so the second partition dissapears (only for this windows xp installation) and there is no way AFAIK to change it. In the end I reinstalled using the normal nlited CD installation (wich recognizes the HD as a basic disk).

Most probably the "reversed" dummydisk.sys remained as a leftover.

On next occasion, check whether rdummy.sys is installed.

Or did you NOT re-boot?

It should get disabled at the first re-boot after install has finished:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=421

jaclaz

[Jouven]

jaclaz, on Jul 12 2009, 01:35 PM, said:

Most probably the "reversed" dummydisk.sys remained as a leftover.

On next occasion, check whether rdummy.sys is installed.

Or did you NOT re-boot?

It should get disabled at the first re-boot after install has finished:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=421

jaclaz

I did reboot many times (because after the installation I tried many things so solve it) but still remained as a removable media (if you mean that by "Or did you NOT re-boot?").

For disabled you mean deleted or...?

[jaclaz]

Jouven, on Jul 12 2009, 03:24 PM, said:

For disabled you mean deleted or...?

No, I mean disabled, i.e. with a START value in Registry of 4.
http://support.micro...kb/158995/en-us

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Value Name: Start
Data Type: REG_DWORD
Data: 3 (Default: 2)

(Data values are 0 = Boot, 1 = System, 2 = Automatic, 3 = Manual, 4 = Disabled)

jaclaz

[ilko_t]

In such cases WinSetupFromUSB adds a line to winnt.sif GUIRunOnce section:

"sc delete rdummy"

Do you have this line in ~BT\winnt.sif ?

Was the first login with an admin account?

I wonder where this has failed...

[Jouven]

ilko_t, on Jul 12 2009, 06:25 PM, said:

Was the first login with an admin account?

It was.

[darklord]

Hey Guys,

I'm pretty new to the whole formatting laptops via USB thing I've been trying to format my MSI Wind with little success, I've used WinSetupFromUSB. It all installs to the USB drive fine, and when I use the test in QEMU it works fine, however when I connect it to the Wind it starts to work it get past the press F6 for Raid drivers then fails with a blue screen 0x0000007B error.

The FAQ's have this to say about the error,

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Q3: I get BSOD 0x0000007B during text mode of Setup.
A3: On some motherboards USB booting is tricky, common example are many Dell systems. Try using a modified NTDETECT.COM as mentioned here:
http://www.msfn.org/...009#entry738009
Another reason could be missing mass storage driver. Make sure you have it, or integrate BTS mass storage driver pack in your source. This must be done AFTER Nlite.

I've modified my NTdetect.com (correctly I believe, the file size is perfect anyhow) I'm really struggling with the mass storage driver though. I've not used Nlite either leaving me somewhat puzzled!

I have the USB drive set to Boot option #1 [USB HardDisk]

Can anyone point me towards what I need to do to get it working?

Cheers,

Daniel.

[jaclaz]

darklord, on Jul 13 2009, 12:50 PM, said:

Can anyone point me towards what I need to do to get it working?

From what you report I may only guess:

• that the MSI Wind needs a proprietary driver for Mass Storage Devices (does it have a SATA disk?)
  
• that you haven't integrated in the Source the appropriate Masss Storage Device Driver

The BTS is a pre-packaged set of drivers that cover most hardware:
http://driverpacks.net/

it's up to you to:

• find out whether it includes the appropriate driver for your hardware
  
• decide whether using it (thus adding support to a vast amount of hardware but "fattening" the install source or if you just want to "plainly integrate" just the needed driver

On the other hand, you may try to follow this "specific MSI WIND" step by step tutorial (for the part regarding preparing the source):
http://forums.msiwind.net/windows/how-onec...post-t1337.html
and later either use the "other" method:
http://www.msfn.org/...howtopic=111406
(illustrated in the tutorial)
or use this WinsetupFromUSB with GUI


jaclaz

[Jouven]

I did another attempt this weekend, disabling the rdummy did the job (yes, it happened again) btw another minor bug it happens with the winsetupfromusb and not from the cdrom traditional way, in the middle of the text part of the installation, when the setup is copying the windows setup files for the first time, the setup complains about a file missing (phd.dll), I let it skip it and everything goes ok, anyway when I search the file after the installation it is in the system32 folder so np.

PD: Thanks jaclaz for the help.

[ilko_t]

Thanks for the feedback

As for rdummy- can you change the line in winnt.sif in ~BT folder from:
"sc disable rdummy"

to:

command0="sc disable rdummy"

and try again installation. As mentioned above you'd need to reboot once after the first regular windows login in order to delete the service.

As for the missing file- please zip and attach txtsetup.sif with your next post.
Is this file part of any slipstreamed windows update or application? What program did you use for the purpose?
I don't find this file in a regular XP SP3 downloaded from MSDN.

This post has been edited by ilko_t: 19 July 2009 - 04:00 PM

[Slackers]

ok i dont know what im doing wrong, but whenever i tried to install windows xp pro sp3 on a mini lap top the c: disk doesnt appear,
does anyone know why?
i tried fat16 fat32 and im trying rite now ntfs that says to be faster but i dont care about that im just wondering

im new here and this forum is very usefull gonna hand here more often to be honest have learn lotta things

thanks in advanced

[jaclaz]

Slackers, on Jul 21 2009, 07:22 PM, said:

ok i dont know what im doing wrong, but whenever i tried to install windows xp pro sp3 on a mini lap top the c: disk doesnt appear,
does anyone know why?

Is it a SATA hard disk?

Did you integrate in your source the correct drivers?

jaclaz

[Slackers]

dont know the model is hp mini 2140

when i tried to format the disk containing the windows (c:) it only appears my usb u: unit

its 4gb kingston data traverler

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ok i just see that i need to activate an option in bios....but i works with an acer that has the option to switch the sata drive into ide mode, cant fnd that option in the mini hp 2140.....

any ideas?

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i jsut did it yeah

i just disable sata mode on system configurations device configuration and turn LBA into Bit shift thats all..

thanks for the help....good bless the forums

This post has been edited by Slackers: 21 July 2009 - 12:45 PM