First post, by SKARDAVNELNATE
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I've been playing around with Windows XP to create an unattended install and include updates. This tested great in VPC2007. Now to do a clean install on a real system. I've read that a USB drive can be made to boot the XP disc but none of the methods work with this old system. Either I'm asked for the boot disk or I get a blinking cursor that sits there indefinitely.
Instead I want to make a hard drive that will boot into Windows XP setup the way the CD does. Then use it to partition a separate harddrive and install XP to that one. I"m running into problems with either "insert boot disk", "NTLDR is missing", BOOT.INI, or return of the blinking cursor.
Can it be done?