Please note this tutorial works on all computers not just the Asus EEE PC.
To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC.
What you'll need:
USB_PREP8 (alternative download)
PeToUSB (alternative download)
Bootsect.exe (alternative download)
Special
Note: If you use the program Nlite be sure to keep the manual
installation files as the USB_prep8 script relies on these files.
Extract the files in Bootsect.zip
The next step is to extract USB_prep8 and PeToUSB.
Next copy the PeToUSB executable into the USB_prep8 folder.
Inside of the USB_prep8 folder double click the executable named usb_prep8.cmd.
The window that opens will look like this:
Press any key to continue
You next window will look like this:
These settings are preconfigured for you all you need to do now is click start.
Once
the format is complete DO NOT close the window just leave everything as
it is and open a command prompt from your start menu (type cmd in the
search bar or run box depending on your version of windows.).
Inside of the command windows go to the directory you have bootsect.exe saved.
(use the cd directoryname command to switch folders)
Now
type "bootsect.exe /nt52 R:" NOTE R: is the drive letter for my USB
stick if yours is different you need to change it accordingly. What
this part does is write the correct boot sector to your USB stick, this
allows your PC to boot from the USB stick without it nothing works.
Please
note: When running the bootsect.exe command you cannot have any windows
open displaying the content of your USB stick, if you have a window
open bootsect.exe will be unable to lock the drive and write the
bootsector correctly.
If all went well you should see "Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes."
Now you can close this command prompt (don't close the usbprep8 one by mistake) and the petousb window.
You window you see now should look like this:
If it doesn't try pressing enter.
Now you need to enter the correct information for numbers 1-3.
Press
1 and then enter. A folder browse window will open for you to browse to
the location of you XP setup files (aka your cdrom drive with xp cd in)
Press 2 and enter a letter not currently assigned to a drive on your PC
Press 3 and enter the drive letter of your USB stick
Press 4 to start the process.
The
script will ask you if its ok to format drive T:. This is just a temp
drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files.
Press Y then enter.
Once it's done formating press enter to
continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp
drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again.
Next you will see a box pop up asking you to copy the files to USB drive yes/no you want to click yes.
Once
the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would
like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this
window.
Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive.
Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep8 window.
Now make sure your EEE pc is configured with USB as the primary boot device.
Insert your USB drive and boot up the EEE.
On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup.
From
this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation
delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it
using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single
partition or you will get the hal.dll error message.
Once the
text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode
(you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the
30 seconds)
Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will
again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation
and you will end up at you XP desktop. It is very important that you DO
NOT REMOVE THE USB STICK before this point. Once you can see your start
menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure
everything worked.
This method has advantages over all current
no cdrom methods of installing XP to the EEE. You do not have to copy
setup files in DOS to the SSD and install from there. It gives you
access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it
gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have
problems later on.
I hope this worked out for you and please post feedback to the comments section.
Please
note due to the amount of comments this article has received you must
now click on "Post a Comment" below the existing comments to view the
most recent feedback in a popup window.
To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC.
What you'll need:
USB_PREP8 (alternative download)
PeToUSB (alternative download)
Bootsect.exe (alternative download)
Special
Note: If you use the program Nlite be sure to keep the manual
installation files as the USB_prep8 script relies on these files.
Extract the files in Bootsect.zip
The next step is to extract USB_prep8 and PeToUSB.
Next copy the PeToUSB executable into the USB_prep8 folder.
Inside of the USB_prep8 folder double click the executable named usb_prep8.cmd.
The window that opens will look like this:
Press any key to continue
You next window will look like this:
These settings are preconfigured for you all you need to do now is click start.
Once
the format is complete DO NOT close the window just leave everything as
it is and open a command prompt from your start menu (type cmd in the
search bar or run box depending on your version of windows.).
Inside of the command windows go to the directory you have bootsect.exe saved.
(use the cd directoryname command to switch folders)
Now
type "bootsect.exe /nt52 R:" NOTE R: is the drive letter for my USB
stick if yours is different you need to change it accordingly. What
this part does is write the correct boot sector to your USB stick, this
allows your PC to boot from the USB stick without it nothing works.
Please
note: When running the bootsect.exe command you cannot have any windows
open displaying the content of your USB stick, if you have a window
open bootsect.exe will be unable to lock the drive and write the
bootsector correctly.
If all went well you should see "Bootcode was successfully updated on all targeted volumes."
Now you can close this command prompt (don't close the usbprep8 one by mistake) and the petousb window.
You window you see now should look like this:
If it doesn't try pressing enter.
Now you need to enter the correct information for numbers 1-3.
Press
1 and then enter. A folder browse window will open for you to browse to
the location of you XP setup files (aka your cdrom drive with xp cd in)
Press 2 and enter a letter not currently assigned to a drive on your PC
Press 3 and enter the drive letter of your USB stick
Press 4 to start the process.
The
script will ask you if its ok to format drive T:. This is just a temp
drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files.
Press Y then enter.
Once it's done formating press enter to
continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp
drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again.
Next you will see a box pop up asking you to copy the files to USB drive yes/no you want to click yes.
Once
the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would
like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this
window.
Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive.
Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep8 window.
Now make sure your EEE pc is configured with USB as the primary boot device.
Insert your USB drive and boot up the EEE.
On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup.
From
this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation
delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it
using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single
partition or you will get the hal.dll error message.
Once the
text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode
(you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the
30 seconds)
Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will
again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation
and you will end up at you XP desktop. It is very important that you DO
NOT REMOVE THE USB STICK before this point. Once you can see your start
menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure
everything worked.
This method has advantages over all current
no cdrom methods of installing XP to the EEE. You do not have to copy
setup files in DOS to the SSD and install from there. It gives you
access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it
gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have
problems later on.
I hope this worked out for you and please post feedback to the comments section.
Please
note due to the amount of comments this article has received you must
now click on "Post a Comment" below the existing comments to view the
most recent feedback in a popup window.
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