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Unetbootin for Windows OSs?

ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
edited June 2009 in Moe's Stupid Technology Tavern
Because every guide I've seen about installing Windows XP from a USB drive gets me nowhere.

Can anyone lend me a hand?

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    VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    It would probably be way easier to get the USB install right. What exactly is going wrong?

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Installing Windows XP on a netbook. :P

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    VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    What step?

    Making the USB drive bootable? Extracting the ISO? The actual booting?

    In other words, what did you try?

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Making the drive bootable.

    edit: I'm following this guide at the moment, so let's how this goes.

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    Desert_Eagle25Desert_Eagle25 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    That guide seems odd. You shouldn't have to donwload any tools to do it. All you need is command prompt.

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Well, the command prompt tells me that it fails to start the Virtual Disk Driver...

    I get stuck in this step:
    The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T:. This is just a temp drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files. Press Y then enter.

    Once it's done formating press enter to continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again.

    Desert_Eagle25, well, what should I be doing then? I'm at a lost.

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    Desert_Eagle25Desert_Eagle25 Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Impersonator wrote: »
    Well, the command prompt tells me that it fails to start the Virtual Disk Driver...

    I get stuck in this step:
    The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T:. This is just a temp drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files. Press Y then enter.

    Once it's done formating press enter to continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again.

    Desert_Eagle25, well, what should I be doing then? I'm at a lost.

    Everything in this guide, up until you put in the Windows 7 files. You put the XP files on instead.

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Concerning the second part:
    Go back to your command prompt, running it as an Administrator. Using the “CD” command, find your way to the folder where you extracted the ISO files. Your command line path should look something like “C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Desktop\Windows 7 Beta\”.

    Type the following commands:

    CD Boot (This gets you into the “boot” directory)

    Bootsect.exe /nt60 L: (where ‘L’ is the drive letter assigned to your USB key from the previous step)

    I can't do this because I don't have a boot folder or the bootsect executable.

    Anyway, skipping this step I just end up copying the files over to the usb key, boot up my netbook and get greeted with the following message:
    BOOTMGR is missing
    Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

    Any ideas? :(

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    VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    There's no boot folder on the CD/ISO? You can't really skip any of those steps, except perhaps the formatting to NTFS. Still, I'm pretty sure you should have a /boot folder. You don't have anything like it? BootCD?

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I have a [boot] folder, but no bootsect.exe in it. :(

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    VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Hm. Could you use some variant of Linux to make the disk bootable?

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I have no idea of how to do it. D:

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Anyone?

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    VistiVisti Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    I looked up a guide for doing it with Linux once that worked fine.. Otherwise.. Mmh. Download the Windows 7 beta, do everything in that guide up to copying the files and then just copy the XP files instead.

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    NailbunnyPDNailbunnyPD Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    The WinXP CD does not have bootmgr file, nor a boot folder.

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    ImpersonatorImpersonator Registered User regular
    edited June 2009
    Yeah, I always get stuck on that particular step. :(

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    josmeijerjosmeijer Registered User new member
    edited June 2009
    NailbunnyPD wrote: »
    The WinXP CD does not have bootmgr file, nor a boot folder.

    it sure has'nt as this guide assumes you install vista or windows 7 so it's on those DVD's you should look for that file.

    The link to the windows 7 beta is dead btw, but you can still get a release candidate of win 7 that will last for a year from microsoft. (be quick, it ends this month, just Google and find)
    It works great on netbooks (it scales down to a lean & mean OS) and easily looks up all necesary drivers on the net. (you should have a cable connection to start off with, so it can find wireless drivers, modems etc)
    If not, you had all the time to find XP drivers and you can replace the cabs and setup on your USB stick by the contents of your XP-dvd.

    enjoy!

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