Comments on: Installing Windows XP from a USB pen

By: Gzone.cs

Gzone.cs — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:17:53 +0000

I tried with XP SP3 first. Everything went fine and I successfully installed XP SP3 with this method. Later I wanted to install XP SP2.
But this time, it shows ‘windows is starting’ and then a blue screen is shown (Fatal error screen) and the system hangs. !!

Please help !!

By: Raghav

Raghav — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 01:19:55 +0000

When i press GO it says “the copy of your Source is not SP2 or SP3(although its SP2) and it also remarks to copy the missing files afterwards how to do that

By: Frank

Frank — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:57:12 +0000

mada,

you should take out the hard drives with important data and go find urself a cheap one to install windows on.

By: Mada

Mada — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:56:23 +0000

Hey Jeff,
I want to install win xp pro on the 2nd partition of my hdd. But the problem is that I had windows 7 before on the D: drive and Vista on the C: Drive. I then re-installed vista and in vista it says that the system partition is D: when it’s actually C:! (i wiped out windows 7).
So in the xp installation it shows the vista drive as C: and in vista my computer it shows the system partition as D:. So now when i proceeded with the txt mode it worked fine but then the gui mode isn’t even loading. I assume that it’s because of the drive letter confusion and I don’t want to erase the vista partition.
So, how am I supposed to install xp now?
Thanks in advance

By: Anup kattel

Anup kattel — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:16:09 +0000

To jerry.

There is a option in bios under hard disk section normally it is falled “Enable native SATA support” – on/off . Change this and then the windows setup will detect internal hard disk. This issue in seen when installing from bootable cd, even on desktop computers.

By: Anup kattel

Anup kattel — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:18:36 +0000

Hi, i have different sort of error. Everything is fine upto selection of which partition to install windows. After i selected drive, it formats But when it is time to copy files to destination disk it says – theFollowing value in the .SIF file used by setup is missing. : value 0 on the line in section (sourseDiskFile) with key “sp2.cab”

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:17:11 +0000

Mazhar

yes, like the normal windows installer, you do get the option to partition and formatt the drive early in the install.

By: Frank

Frank — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:11:17 +0000

Jerry,

It’s possible you have the bios boot order wrong. Make sure your usb pen drive is first and the hard drive you want to install to is second.

Also, you could try formatting the hard drive and creating a new blank (NTFS) partition by attatching it to another computer. Then put it back into the computer you are working on and see if it shows up then.

Its also possible the hard drive isnt actually being detected. check to make sure its showing up in your bios.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 21:00:20 +0000

Thanks Frank, for the great support . I followed you instructions to the dot and was successful in booting the system.The blue screen came up and all went well till the screen where we get to see the partition details.

Issue:

1. The screen displays only one partition (USB flash drive).
Internal HDD is not detected.

Eagerly looking forward to know how to solve this issue.Thanks once again.

By: Mazhar

Mazhar — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:01:36 +0000

Thanks for your reply, I was referring to a clean hard drive in my second query. Will I get the option of hard disk partitioning and formatting from usb in the beginning if i do it on clean hard drive or do I have to use external dos command separately to partition.