How to install Windows XP from a Flash Disk Drive?

[rembrants]

http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html

i've made it and ray, it's really fast than cd of course...

[Raymond]

Will try this method. Thanks for sharing.

[fox_unleashed]

Wow finally... thanks rembrants, I'll try it, lest's hope it's working & it's working fast :)

[Raymond]

I am getting some HAL.dll error problem. Will try again.

[brayden]

sounds weird

[fox_unleashed]

I've try it and it works, and it's fast, especially in the text mode. But... i don't like the predefined user name registered user name and company, I need the original setting, where u can define ur own User name Company name, etc. The point is i need the original state so i can fill in the right information....

About the hall.dll problem.... i don't use the U:\ as my default flash drive letter... and maybe u should not remove the flash drive until the third boot process finished and u got into the desktop Ray.

Basically there are three stage of installation in this process :
1. Choose the Text mode, and start the installation process (if you create or delete a partition then u must press F3 and restart the computer and the go back to the Text mode to continue the installation with your newly created partition)
2. After setup finished copying the files needed to continue to the next (GUI mode) stage of installation and then reboot the computer, then choose the GUI mode and let the installation finish.
3. After the GUI mode stage finished the computer will reboot once again, this time don't unplug the flash drive yet, and choose the GUI mode "again". If u unplug the flash drive after the second stage then u most likely will have the "Hall.dll" problem (I've been having the same problem before). If u choose the GUI mode once again then the newly installed Windows will start and u will get in to the desktop, after u get into the desktop then it safe to remove ur flash drive. I think during to first Windows start the boot code that was previously written into ur flash drive will be moved to your C:\ drive so that u can boot to Windows without ur flash drive permanently.

Ray, i suggest u plug in ur flash drive again and turn on your computer (if u still got ur windows installation on ur C:\ drive from previous setup via flash drive) and then choose the GUI mode, I think u will get into Windows desktop without any problem. If u still have that hall.dll problem, just restart the installation process from scratch again, but next time, don't unplug the flash drive too early. :)

[Raymond]

Thanks fox. Will try it again tomorrow. Cheers!