Problem with winsetupfromusb

[Frallan]

Hi!

Iam sorry for my bad english..

Iam sitting here with a dell Inspiron 6400 and a broken dvd unit.

So I tried Winsetupfromusb 1.1.1,

I used orginal windows xp pro cd. (sp2)

1gig noname usb-stick.

under the txt installation its working like a sharm!

but then when I start the gui installation its just a Blink charakter " _ " and the screen is black.

are there somthing I have missed?

Iam stuck! anyone got any hints for me?

[ilko_t]

Did you start from USB second time, for the GUI part?

Dell usually have a hidden first partition, is it deleted? What partition is set active?

Can you still boot from that USB stick?

Blinking cursor usually means that booted disk/partition is not bootable or bootsector is wrong etc., it should not display it if you started the second part through grub4dos menus.

If something is wrong with boot.ini it wouldn't throw this error as well

Edited December 3, 2008 by ilko_t

[Frallan]

hi

Thanks for the reply,

my old orginal disk in this laptop crashed, so this is a new 250gb disk.

I re-checked the first txt install

238473 MB Hdd 0 on Id 0 on Buss 0 on Atapi [MBR]

C: Partition1 [NTFS] 238465 MB (237913 MB Free)

Unpartitioned space 8MB

After that its just my USB memory..

The grub4dos för the second part (gui) I checked the edit section

root (hd0,0)

Chainloader (hd0,0)/ntldr

Savedefault

in my opinion this should look like this insted or am I wrong?:

root (hd1,0)

Chainloader (hd1,0) /ntldr

Savedefault

maby that doesent mean anything but I changed my boot.ini file copyed it to c:\ and overwrite the old one,

the only diffrent was that I put in an extra line like this:

[boot loader]

timeout=30

default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS

[operating systems]

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect

multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Boot Test Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect

[ilko_t]

root (hd0,0)

Chainloader (hd0,0)/ntldr

Savedefault

It's OK. You are starting NTLDR on the USB stick, which is (hd0,0).

Add a second line to BOOT.INI on USB stick, start from USB and select GUI mode. Do you see the menu?

Please answer:

Did you start from USB second time, for the GUI part?

Can you still boot from that USB stick?

[Frallan]

Hi,

I have tried put 5 diffrent boot.ini in the root of usb stick.

I also start txt mode to get in to Repair consol,

used the "copy X:\boot.ini C:\boot.ini" and overwrite the old one on C:

Afther I did that I Booted up with USB-Stick, chose 2:an options in grub4dos but I just get a list of Windows xp modes

but no one will take me to gui install.

it just hangs, I can start the txt mode with no problem but the second part just doesnt work.

[ilko_t]

So I guess you saw the menus in BOOT.INI from the root of your USB stick, right?

If this is true, what exactly happens when you select either of them?

Look at this post:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=815523

Does partition number at first screenshot from Text mode matches partition number in BOOT.INI?

Are any other disks displayed, rather than your USB disk and the internal disk?

It would also help if you go again in recovery console and post here the output of this command:

map arc

[Frallan]

Hi,

I have now started the repair consol and wrote map arc

1 C:\ 240gb blabla

2 D:\ Usb stick

3 E:\ Integrated Cdrom (dont working, I cant disable it in bios)

Now everthing is fixed, the solution was: put the **** thing on the ground and jumped 3 times and bye a new one.

[ilko_t]