I’m trying to create a bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP using
the procedure given in Techrepublic’s Illustrated walk-through: Creating a bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 (running Vista), a 4 gb Cruzer usb flash drive and a copy of XP Prof installation cd. My bios supports usb booting and so does the usb stick.
I build the PE environment- no errors, no warnings. I create subfolder srsp1 and extract the 2 needed files from Windows Server 2003 SP1. Use pe2usb to format and transfer iso image to usb. So far, so good.
Now, I reboot, this time indicating the boot device as usb. It shows me a solid white bar running all across the bottom of screen and message … “loading RAMDISK”. Then the bar changes to stripes and “Loading BartPE. please wait..” appears. In a few secs., the “blue death screen” appears with “PROCESS1_INITILIZATION_FAILED…”.
This is as far as I have reached, and remember, I tried several permutations of this procedure- formatted the usb in FAT, FAT32,NTFS, partitioned the usb into 2 gb and much more.
PLEASE HELP ME!
Thanks.
