It's been a while since i have posted on these forums, usually posting to help, but this time it's the opposite, i will give a run down of what i am attempting and hopefully someone can shed some light on my problem.
Over the past week i have been attempting to create a multiboot USB key with 3 Windows installations.
1) XP Home
2) Windows 7 Home Premium (32-bit)
3) Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)
Now, to achieve this i know i have to partition my USB key, so i have done so, i have 4 partitions.
The biggest problem is i can't have it multiboot ISO's because everytime i get it to boot ISO's, XP install BSOD's on me and Windows 7 says it needs CD/DVD Drivers.
Here is a line up of how my patitions are...
Partition 1) SYSTEM 100mb
Partition 2) XP 700mb
Partition 3) 32-bit 3.4gb
Partition 4) 64-bit 3.4gb
Here's what i have working so far...
I used wingrub to install the grub loader to partition 1) SYSTEM 100mb, this way i can make changes to the other partitions without affecting the loader.
From wingrub i then wrote my bootloader, (i will post it if anyone feels it is part of the problem)
Then i decided to work backwards getting windows 7 (64-bit) to work first, which i can get to work by copying over my setup folders from my Windows 7 disc and them installing bootsect to the partition myself.
The same also worked for Windows 7 (32-bit)
But when i attempt this for xp i get no response from it, i will explain better.
When i reboot to use the multiboot usb i choose my xp option, and it just continues to load windows normally.
With xp i have also tried the 2 part install with txt mode and gui mode, but with this method i get further but still no install, i get an error message saying missing or corrupt <windows root>\system32\hal.dll
So i am a little stuck, any help will be much appreciated. Thanks.
I was reading this chain of mail
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Is there a way for computer dummies like me to do it. Has anybody written a software for dummies.
I started of actually trying to create a USB XP booter , xp Booter not an xp installer. I tried Novicorp for XP installer , it works fine , but that is not what I want. Installing BartPE is the closest to wha i want and it helps to recover files urgently in a crashed XP OS
But I want to just boot xp from an usb flash drive.
I tried Yumi from pendrivelinux but I do not have the requisite XP iso. i am able to create an Ubuntu bootable from USB, though.
