Hi everyone,
I have been trying for a very long time to install Windows XP from a USB pen drive which I have prepared with Rufus... Win installation starts smoothly in the first half part when the installer runs in the DOS-like mode, then the installation arrives at a point where it wants to re-boot the computer, and it's here everything fails when the installer kicks up the graphical GUI installer mode, this is the dreaded "39 minutes left" and "can't find i386/ASMS files" problem many have reported on the net.
At this point I hit Shift + F10 to fire up CMD, then according to the Microsoft fix advice, type in "regedit.exe" but as for many others, no regedit opens up so we are stuck here.
While in the CMD window, I also tried to change drive by typing in C: D: E: etc etc... until I found a drive letter which I suspect is Not any of the HD partitions, but the actual USB pen drive I am using to install from, but the message CMD returns is: "Device is not ready" so I can't change to that drive and run a DIR or see the volume name to confirm it's the USB pen drive though we know it is very probably that one by counting the amount of partitions on the HD.
In amidst all this mess and frustration, on a whim I took an old Win XP SP1 CD and loaded it into the CD/DVD drive, and sure it suddenly works wonders and start to copy all the files from the i386 folder... well, at this point I stopped the installation anyway because that old CD as mentioned is an SP1 while on the USB is a SP3 version, but this confirms the Windows installer is somewhat flawed already from the "BSOD_Factory", it appears to be looking only at the IDE devices which these days aren't used for anything else than CD/DVD drives.
BTW, I have tried all kinds of BIOS settings, two different USB pen drive (same model and make though..) and three different Windows ISO files as well but to no avail.
I suspect I could of course pull out the HD to which I am trying to install to, and plug it into another computer or with a USB to SATA cable and manually copy over all the i386 files and folders into the Windows/System32...folder, or, as some have reported on the net, burn a CD with only i386 files and folders, also one could use a live-CD/USB such Hiren's Boot etc etc...., but all this makes the idea of installing from a USB pen drive kind of moot and pointless, I have now spent tons of hours on this problem and g00gledoing around some hundred internet pages without coming up with any solution to this, help!!?!
Maybe time to build an own ISO/installer from scratch...? The crucial problem is to make/cheat Windows installer into finding the USB after rebooting, at that dreaded "39 minutes left" and "can't find i386/ASMS files" point, because after rebooting Windows is already so far a somewhat crude working OS already installed onto the HD doing it's own stuff where the computers BIOS is already a past procedure, because if one would at re-boot by again selecting "boot from USB" it would start the installation all over again from scratch.
BTW, I have burned one of the SP3 ISO file to a DVD (at lowest speed, very important for those who don't know why Windows installation from home made CD/DVD use to fail so often!!!) and managed to complete a full installation, so we know the ISO file is ok, but the USB...
I have been trying for a very long time to install Windows XP from a USB pen drive which I have prepared with Rufus... Win installation starts smoothly in the first half part when the installer runs in the DOS-like mode, then the installation arrives at a point where it wants to re-boot the computer, and it's here everything fails when the installer kicks up the graphical GUI installer mode, this is the dreaded "39 minutes left" and "can't find i386/ASMS files" problem many have reported on the net.
At this point I hit Shift + F10 to fire up CMD, then according to the Microsoft fix advice, type in "regedit.exe" but as for many others, no regedit opens up so we are stuck here.
While in the CMD window, I also tried to change drive by typing in C: D: E: etc etc... until I found a drive letter which I suspect is Not any of the HD partitions, but the actual USB pen drive I am using to install from, but the message CMD returns is: "Device is not ready" so I can't change to that drive and run a DIR or see the volume name to confirm it's the USB pen drive though we know it is very probably that one by counting the amount of partitions on the HD.
In amidst all this mess and frustration, on a whim I took an old Win XP SP1 CD and loaded it into the CD/DVD drive, and sure it suddenly works wonders and start to copy all the files from the i386 folder... well, at this point I stopped the installation anyway because that old CD as mentioned is an SP1 while on the USB is a SP3 version, but this confirms the Windows installer is somewhat flawed already from the "BSOD_Factory", it appears to be looking only at the IDE devices which these days aren't used for anything else than CD/DVD drives.
BTW, I have tried all kinds of BIOS settings, two different USB pen drive (same model and make though..) and three different Windows ISO files as well but to no avail.
I suspect I could of course pull out the HD to which I am trying to install to, and plug it into another computer or with a USB to SATA cable and manually copy over all the i386 files and folders into the Windows/System32...folder, or, as some have reported on the net, burn a CD with only i386 files and folders, also one could use a live-CD/USB such Hiren's Boot etc etc...., but all this makes the idea of installing from a USB pen drive kind of moot and pointless, I have now spent tons of hours on this problem and g00gledoing around some hundred internet pages without coming up with any solution to this, help!!?!
Maybe time to build an own ISO/installer from scratch...? The crucial problem is to make/cheat Windows installer into finding the USB after rebooting, at that dreaded "39 minutes left" and "can't find i386/ASMS files" point, because after rebooting Windows is already so far a somewhat crude working OS already installed onto the HD doing it's own stuff where the computers BIOS is already a past procedure, because if one would at re-boot by again selecting "boot from USB" it would start the installation all over again from scratch.
BTW, I have burned one of the SP3 ISO file to a DVD (at lowest speed, very important for those who don't know why Windows installation from home made CD/DVD use to fail so often!!!) and managed to complete a full installation, so we know the ISO file is ok, but the USB...
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