NLITE bootable install failure

[monkeywintest]

Hi, I nlited windows xp pro and it hangs at boot with a black screen
with a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen. Anyway a full
install works and I have nlited quite a few times and never had an
issue.

Anybody know what I may have removed to do this, also what can I leave
on the install to keep 'system information'

dell inspiron 1150

Thanks for thoughts, suggestions.

 

[John John MVP]

Hi, I nlited windows xp pro and it hangs at boot with a black screen
with a blinking cursor at the top left of the screen. Anyway a full
install works and I have nlited quite a few times and never had an
issue.

Anybody know what I may have removed to do this, also what can I leave
on the install to keep 'system information'

dell inspiron 1150

Thanks for thoughts, suggestions.

The blinking cursor at the top left of the screen is usually a sign that
the active flag has been removed from the active partition, the disk has
no active partition. This can be remedied with a Windows 98 boot disk
and Fdisk or with other disk/partition editing tools like Ptedit/ptedit32.

John

 

[monkeywintest]

The blinking cursor at the top left of the screen is usually a sign that
the active flag has been removed from the active partition, the disk has
no active partition.  This can be remedied with a Windows 98 boot disk
and Fdisk or with other disk/partition editing tools like Ptedit/ptedit32..

John

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't get past booting the usb drive, I
am trying to figure out what I removed that caused that.

 

[Rob]

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't get past booting the usb drive, I
am trying to figure out what I removed that caused that.

Are you saying you are trying to install XP to a USB drive and
then boot from it? If so, this can't be done as XP needs USB
drivers and disconnects from the drive while these are loading,
halting the boot process. There may be workarounds using special
tools such as 'flashboot', but I have never seen anyone say that
they have successfully done this. Try a google for 'boot xp from
usb' or 'install xp to usb drive' to get more info.

HTH

 

[Paul]

Are you saying you are trying to install XP to a USB drive and
then boot from it? If so, this can't be done as XP needs USB
drivers and disconnects from the drive while these are loading,
halting the boot process. There may be workarounds using special
tools such as 'flashboot', but I have never seen anyone say that
they have successfully done this. Try a google for 'boot xp from
usb' or 'install xp to usb drive' to get more info.

HTH

The fix for the USB disconnecting, involves [BootBusExtenders]. If you really
want to boot from an external USB hard drive, it's been done. But then moving
the drive to another computer, means dealing with activation again. If the
drive stays connected to the same computer all the time, it might be functionally
acceptable.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic116114.html

Paul

 

[Rob]

Are you saying you are trying to install XP to a USB drive and
then boot from it? If so, this can't be done as XP needs USB
drivers and disconnects from the drive while these are loading,
halting the boot process. There may be workarounds using special
tools such as 'flashboot', but I have never seen anyone say that
they have successfully done this. Try a google for 'boot xp from
usb' or 'install xp to usb drive' to get more info.

HTH

The fix for the USB disconnecting, involves [BootBusExtenders]. If you
really
want to boot from an external USB hard drive, it's been done. But then
moving
the drive to another computer, means dealing with activation again. If the
drive stays connected to the same computer all the time, it might be
functionally
acceptable.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic116114.html

Excellent, Paul - google failed to hit that one which should help
the OP, if this is indeed what he's trying to do.
I've bookmarked it and will do some reading on BootBusExtenders -
looks interesting.
Cheers,

 

[John John MVP]

Thanks for the reply but it doesn't get past booting the usb drive, I
am trying to figure out what I removed that caused that.

USB drive?

Question 1: Is your computer capable of booting off USB devices and is
the boot order set accordingly in the BIOS?

Question 2: Did you prepare the Windows installation so that it could
boot on a USB drive?

Officially, Windows XP does not support booting off USB drives. You may
be able to get this to work but you have to hack the USB stack load
order for this to work.

John