0x7b Installing Xp

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I am not trying to taunt you or insult you, I just can't understand why people report 'errors' without ever giving the error message. It really helps to have that information!By the way, I'm not an IT professional at all, and I am constantly floored by the inability of professionals, with the resources at their disposal, to work out some of these issues when I can in my spare time.Since you are getting other answers, I'll just back out, since I have obviously offended you deeply.Cheers.edit: OK, you still haven't gotten an answer after providing further information, so I've added a post. Good luck, I know it can be a pain to get that to work sometimes. 'The most popular Blue Screen of Death error'.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: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.

0x7b Xp Install

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').