Windows 7 - XP install starting from a USB stick

Hi, I have just bought a new i5 laptop (HP DV6-6c77sa) with W7.

I was hoping my existing XP installation on a 320 gig SATA HDD (from a dual
core computer ) would simply plug in and after a few reboots, settle down -
but no such luck !.  (boots then BSOD)

Its so long since I have had to do this sort of thing - I have forgotten the
steps - then when I read up on it - I seem to be going round in circles.

1.  Is there a way to get my existing XP installation to boot ?. -or-

2.  I have been reading about loading XP - starting from a USB memory stick -
but got lost - can anyone point me towards an easy method ?.

John

go to your COS site up,

and reset the Boot from #1. CD/DVD #2. HDD #3. USB to

Hi John,
Your existing XP installation on the other drive is from another
computer.  It is looking for all the old hardware, and is using drivers
for that old hardware.... hence your blue screen.  Normally when
switching an XP installation to totally different hardware, you can
often (but not always) get the system working by doing a Repair Install
on the old XP drive after it is in the new computer.  However, that
assumes the new hardware is XP compatible.... has XP drivers available.

There is a very good chance your Windows 7 laptop has hardware too new
for XP, and there will be no XP drivers for most of the integrated
devices.  In that likely case, you will not be able to run XP correctly on
the hardware.

What are you trying to do with the USB stick?  If you are trying to do
an installation of XP from a USB stick, there are numerous sites
explaining it... google: install XP on USB stick

Here is an example: http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb

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Glen Ventura
MS MVP  Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+

Hi Glen, and thanks for your reply.  I am now trying to do a fresh XP install
using Nlite, I have all the XP drivers for my HP laptop - but I have not used
Nlite before and I am "battling" (with myself !) - when it comes to the part
to "Integrate drivers into the installation" Nlite is looking for .inf files
while the HP drivers I  have are .exe - how do I extract the .inf files ?.
I am hoping the Nlite route will result in an ISO file - to burn an
installation DVD with - is this correct?.

Regards

John

Put the drive back in the other system.
Go to the Device Manager and under IDE/ATAPI Controlers delete all the entries and shut down.
The odds are 50-50 that the drive will now boot up without a BSOD.

Unk

John,
No, do not use Nlite at all for a clean installation.  The main reason
you would use it is to make a slipstream installation disc where you
were adding a service pack to an older install disc.  Using it to
integrate drivers is more trouble than it is worth.  If you have found
and downloaded XP drivers for the hardware integrated in the laptop, in
the form of exe files, and you are sure they are the correct drivers,
then just do a clean install using your XP disc.  After installation is
complete and rebooted, you can manually run the exe files to install the
drivers one by one on the new XP installation.
Install XP, reboot, install any chipset/motherboard drivers found, then
install the video driver, then sound driver, then network adapter driver
and wireless adapter driver, then any memory card reader driver and
other devices, in that order.

Have you ever done a clean install of XP on a computer before?
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Glen Ventura
MS MVP  Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009
CompTIA A+