blue screen error while installing xp from usb flash drive

And you claim to be an IT manager. I cannot fathom why people think mentioning that there is an error, but not what the actual error is is of any use to anyone whatsoever.

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So, what is the error message, that someone may help you with this. Being an IT professional, I would imagine that you might even look up the error yourself, but yeah, we'll look it up for you.

What are you trying to do?
More details please. :)

"The most popular Blue Screen of Death error".

http://pcsupport.about.com/od/findbyerrormessage/a/stop0x0000007b.htm

Since nothing at that article directly addresses Flash drives, we need to address specific issues for USB Flash booting: How did you configure the image on the drive, what type of image is it, and what method did you use to make it bootable?

Some references which may help you, regardless:
http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&&sa=X&ei=ZxolTPj5M4eglAfZlNnZAg&ved=0CCkQBSgA&q=install+XP+from+flash+drive

Edit: I see from reading your other responses that this works on some systems excepting a few Dells. I could not get this to work on a Latitude D620 no matter what I did. I tried several different methods of imaging (both slip-streamed and not)and making the drive bootable. It may just be the Dell models.

edit2: Further, I was able to boot the machine from Flash, just not with the XP installation setup. Actually, it booted on one or two tests, but could not complete installation. And this was not a SATA HDD driver problem (XP has no native SATA support, but BIOS was set to an unalterable "compatibility mode").

Have you tried copying the installation files to the hard drive and installing from there? How about a DVD?

Are you doing a 'clean' install on a blank hard drive, or upgrading a previous version of Windows? If upgrading, are you booting from the USB or allowing the previous version to boot and then starting the upgrade?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324103

It really appears to be either a Hardware Issue with that Hardware not supporting the Loading of the necessary Files from USB or a Driver Issue where the Driver is not set to Load on Startup.

Yea I know that here you are attempting to install the OS so I really would say that this is a Driver Issue and that you will be unable to load these model Dell's from a USB Device. ;)

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Resolution
Note: Some of these steps may require you to access Windows via Safe Mode. If that's not possible then skip those steps.

1.Restart your computer if you haven't already done so. The STOP 0x0000007B blue screen error might be a fluke.

2.Did you just install or make a change to a hard drive controller? If so, there's a good chance that the change you made caused the STOP 0x0000007B error.

Undo the change and test for the 0x7B blue screen error.

Depending on what changes you made, some solutions might include:

?Remove or reconfigure the newly installed hard drive controller.
?Startup with Last Known Good Configuration to undo related registry and driver changes.
?Use System Restore to undo recent changes.
?Rollback hard drive controller device driver to version prior to your driver update.
3.Verify that the SCSI chain is correctly terminated, assuming you're using SCSI hard drives in your computer. Incorrect SCSI termination has been known to cause STOP 0x0000007B errors.

I joined this site, like me so many of my friends (like you!) end up in this site for no gain,
if any of u used the app wintoflash or that usb multiboot thing? so after trying all that, still ur stuck at the bsod with the above said error.
Try changing ur sata drive in ur bios to IDE , it shud be in AHCI or for some RAID.
XP doesnt support sata still.
And I'm 14 years old