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Installing XP on an Acer Netbook...

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by smartacew0lf

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Having no Optical Drive, has anyone had any experience with this? If so, perhaps you could point me to a step-by-step site? Seems to be giving me some problems. Perhaps it is my impatience I don't know. Here is what I have tried so far. Used the USB_MultiBoot program to create a Bootable USB Partition with the XP setup files on it. All goes well until some point within the second phase of installation when one of 2 things has occurred. A.) I have gotten the BSOD with the x0000007B Stop Code or upon what I "believe" to be completion of the installation, after reboot I get "Hal.dll missing" error. Any/all help is appreciated.

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by oldbaritone

Can you borrow an external USB CD or DVD drive?

You may also need to load additional drivers during start-up. ("Press F6 to load additional drivers")

by smartacew0lf

Of course! Thanks for the replies guys. Helps to have a little reality check every now and then.

by peconet tietokoneet

But senile?
That is going over the top there. :)
Where there are problems there are solutions whether great or small, it depends on how we go about getting the answers that seems to be the big issue.

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