Macster

Ilko_T, Okay I see what is going now. It turns out that this is the case of the missing identy. Here in my case I have two locations I didn't know about. One location has the recent installment of WinSetupToUSB and the other (which I just found out) is the old installment (which is where my shortcut is pointing to). The old installment is the one that is missing this file. I was not aware that the my short cut itself would reference the old location even though I thought it was running from the other location on the HD. Hence every time I ran it, it would keep saying missing file. Oops. In one way, maybe this a good thing cause I would not have the history of the old install logs had I known this. Again my apologies. I didn't see where it said to install this Beta into the old location and it doesn't matter anyway because of the short cut I was using. So I see what happened when it came to the installment of McAfee, it must have thought that the file was a virus and locked it away somewhere or deleted it. Either way, it made your program unusable. But this still doesn't explain what happened when I uninstalled McAfee, that Windows 7 would become severly hampered. This is something I will need to bring up with McFee when I write a formal complaint to them in regards to your file in question that caused all this. Well in the words of the great Sherlock Holmes - This mystory is Solved! This indeed did fix the problem. I now have a usable bootable USB Thumb Drive to install XP from and I have you to thank. So Thank You. I am deeply in your dept for the mounds of time and effort you have devoted to this project. Thanks Again, Macster

Ilko_T, Here is the logs from the past 6 attempts that have failed. There are more but these (I hope) should answer any questions. If you need some with successful runs let me know. I should still have those too. Thanks, Macster backups.zip

Thanks ilko_t, I thought the samething as you did, but for different reasons. The program was working fine until just recently I had installed McAfee. So I figured I would just uninstall it... Well this little action has caused no small stir in my system. After the uninstall, things stopped working in Windows 7. So I reinstalled Windows 7 Ultimate 64b with all the upgrades, patches that Microsoft had to offer including drivers for my system, but without the McAfee Antivirus. Still no go. I have downloaded another copy of BETA6 and uncompressed it with 7zip. Still no go. I have copied all the files from my XP SP1 cd thinking that maybe I have a corrupted file. Still no go. Same message comes up all times. I am wondering if Windows 7 during its install, does it utilize files that were part of the previous install. Cause I didn't wipe the partition when I install Windows 7 thinking that Windows 7 would do that for me or give me the option to do so like the XP install does. However I did tell Windows 7 installer to make a fresh install not an upgrade to the existing install. BTW, I know this question may come up at some point, but when I copied all files from XP SP1 CD, I used these very same files untainted by nLite or any other special install routines and it still failed. I am out of options here. Maybe you can think of something that I didn't. Well anyway, I can't think of anything else to say in regards to this. Thanks, Macster Ps. I have updated my previous message with the latest log report hoping maybe you would see something or a trend. Anyway, I am done at this point. Thanks for looking into this and the previous search you did into my problem. I kinda figured with 55 pages of responces there had to be something on this that I just didn't see. Sorry. I am terrible at searching. It requires a creativity that I at times lack. One more thing JaClaz I like your anology on the Dell BOIS coding - your randomization routine example. I couldn't stop laughing and totally agree. I wouldn't own one even if someone gave me money to take it off there hands. (Well maybe...

Hi everyone, It has been a long time since I have posted anything on here. I have a problem was hoping some one could point me in the right direction. I apologize if this problem has been posted before. Here is my dilemma: I am making an XP Pro Sp3 32b install using Windows 7 Ultimate 64b. The version of the WinSetupFromUSB is 1.0 Beta6. Now I have been able to run this quite frequently with no problems up to just recently. The problem is that it is able to load the USB Thumb drive until where it is unable to modify a setup file then it just quits to the desktop. Due to your file quota requirements I am unable to attach the log file to this posting so here it is embedded in the post: 2010/09/21 13:14:56- Ensuring presetup is launched 2010/09/21 13:14:56- Expanding G:\WINSETUP\XPpSP1\I386\setup.ex_ 2010/09/21 13:14:56- Microsoft (R) File Expansion Utility Version 6.1.7600.16385 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Adding G:\WINSETUP\XPpSP1\I386\setupWST.exe to Extraction Queue Expanding Files .... Expanding Files Complete ... 2010/09/21 13:14:56- 2010/09/21 13:30:16- Could not replace original Setup.exe, aborting... 2010/09/21 13:30:16- Removing TEMP folder 2010/09/21 13:30:16- ---------------------------------Program quited----------------------------------------------- I have attached the file in question mentioned ubove in the log file. Thanks for any assistance you maybe able to offer. Macster Edited: To make this post smaller. setupWST.exe