Installing Windows 2000 from a USB CD-ROM Drive May Cause ..

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Help needed to install Win 2000 on laptop using USB cdrom -
I get this error :

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Installing Windows 2000 from a USB CD-ROM Drive May Cause
a "Stop 0x7B" Error

Microsoft Knowledge Base Article If you are using a
Universal Serial Bus (USB - CD-ROM drive to install
Windows 2000 on certain legacy-free computers, you may
receive a "Stop 0x0000007B" Inaccessible_boot_device error
message while booting from the installation CD. Because
many legacy-free computers do not have a standard CD-ROM
drive or floppydisk drive, the USB CD-ROM drive may be the
only method for installing or recovering Windows

This article is no more there ....
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=294820
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Thanks, SAM