Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Debug boot rDisk 2 partition 2" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(2)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Debug boot rDisk 2 partition 1" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(4)\WINDOWS="Debug boot rDisk 1 partition 4" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(3)\WINDOWS="Debug boot rDisk 1 partition 3" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(2)\WINDOWS="Debug boot rDisk 1 partition 2" /fastdetect Multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWS="2nd, GUI mode setup, continue setup + 1st start of Windows" /fastdetectĬ:\ = "-> DEBUG, in case of HAL.DLL or NTOSKRNL.EXE not found errors <-" The boot.ini file contains:ĭefault=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(1)partition(1)\WINDOWSĬ:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\BOOTSECT.DAT = "1st, text mode setup (Boot from flash again after finished)" NTLDR parses the boot.ini entries and presents the menu to the user. The Partition Boot Record (PBR) in the FAT32 volume of the USB drive produced by the WinToFlash format looks for and loads the file \NTLDR. The Master Boot Record (MBR = first sector on the disk) is read and the start of the active partition is found by looking at the MBR partition table values:
The normal Windows XP boot process is explained here.įor WinToFlash however, the boot sequence is as follows: If you have a system that requires AHCI drivers or other Mass Storage Drivers that are not integrated into the XP install folder, you can use nLite to integrate the correct Mass Storage Drivers (.inf files).
To avoid BSOD 0x0000007B errors, if possible, change the BIOS hard disk options on the target system to IDE Legacy mode (not SATA - AHCI). In all cases the target internal hard disk partition was quick formatted as NTFS. When I reformatted the same USB stick as NTFS however, the same stage took just over 4 minutes! When I tried to install XP from a WinToFlash USB stick on my Asus EeePC 904, the first copy files stage took over 79 minutes to copy the files from the USB drive to the internal hard disk!įormatted using the WinToFlash FAT16LBA option took almost 8 minutes. WinToFlash formats the USB stick as FAT32. If you have already tried WinToFlash but got an ' NTLDR is missing - Press any key to restart' error, or it would not boot correctly, or you find the installation of XP (1st stage copy files in text mode) verrrrry slow, you might like to try this method which greatly speeds up installation and may make it more reliable on a wider range of systems. In this Tutorial, I will just deal with Windows XP installations. WinToFlash can copy the contents of a Windows Install ISO or CD/DVD to a USB flash drive so that you can boot from the USB drive and install Windows to a target system (e.g.
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