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I am successfully running a Windows XP SP2 installation off of my USB stick.
I don't really know what I am doing, so this is a brute force method, but it works for me. Please help me to make it more elegant.
For this procedure you need:
Your USB drive
Your Windows installation source and
CodeBeetle's PeToUSB from http://codebeetle.com/page.php?al=petousb
For the steps below I am assuming you are working from a PC with windows loaded on C:
1. Make a copy of your C:\boot.ini to boot.bak
2. Navigate to your windows installation source and run a noreboot setup. For me from my CD it was
Start->Run and type E:\I386\winnt32.exe /noreboot
When prompted, choose Installation Type "New Installation"
At Setup Options - Advanced Options Check the box for "Copy Setup Files" to directory \WINDOWS
At Get Updated Setup files choose No
Thanks to FlyAKite and gosh at http://flyakite.msfn.org/ for this part. Once all of the installation files have been copied. the installation will simply stop without a reboot. You will now have two new hidden directories on your PC, C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT and C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS . If you can't see them, go to Tools->Folder Options->View in Windows Explorer and choose to show hidden and operating systems files.
3. Once the installation has finished, delete C:\boot.ini and rename C:\boot.bak to C:\boot.ini
4. Build with PeToUSB as follows
Insert your USB stick
Start PeToUSB
In PeToUSB, choose your USB stick drive,
Make sure Enable Disk Format is checked, and
Point Source Path to your installation source (for me it was my CD drive, E:\) then
Click Start, Yes, Yes to run PeToUSB.
5. When PeToUSB is finished, delete everything off of the USB stick EXCEPT
NTLDR
NTDETECT.COM
WIN51
WIN51IP
WIN51IP.SP2
Your WIN files may vary depending upon the service pack level of your install source.
Yes, even delete the \minint directory. All we really obtained from this build is NTLDR, this is where someone smarter than I could simplify the process and save some time if they could help obtain a proper NTLDR another way.
6. Copy the directories C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT and C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS onto your USB stick
7. Create a directory \minint on your USB stick
8. Copy C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT\TXTSETUP.INF to the new \minint directory on your USB stick
Steps 7 and 8 are another place where a proper NTLDR file that does not point to \minint would help create a more correct method.
9. Delete the following files from the \$WIN_NT$.~BT directory on your USB stick (thanks again to FlyAKite):
BOOTSECT.DAT
migrate.inf
winnt.sif
10. On your PC hard drive, rename C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT to C:\$WIN_NT$.~BT.OLD and C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS to C:\$WIN_NT$.~LS.OLD
We're hanging on to these files for now in case there are any problems, but we need to change the names. Otherwise when running from your USB stick you may actually be copying the setup files off of your hard disk instead of the stick. I found this out when one time I pulled out my stick during installation - and it kept running!
11. Try it! It if works, delete the two directories in step 10 to clean up.
Hope this works for you, please give it a shot. Any suggestions and improvements are more than welcome, I could really use help with the NTLDR issue so that the time-consuming PE build would not be needed. I'll be glad to answer any questions I can, but like I said, this was a blind squirrel/acorn "hit and miss" for me!
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