Comments on: How To Install Windows XP On Asus EEE PC

By: UK

UK — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:12:09 +0000

Sunny.

download the latest PeToUSB 3.0.0.8, and run it as administrator, i had the same problems when having 3.0.0.7 version… looks like that Vista doesnt like something about it.

By: Johnny 5

Johnny 5 — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:59:07 +0000

Try using a usb flash drive that is less than 4 gb

By: neil

neil — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 05:06:16 +0000

Sunny, run the usb_prep8.cmd as administrator and it will start petousb as admin. I had to do that to get it to work in Vista

By: Sunny

Sunny — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:06:02 +0000

the PeToUSB formating is not working for me.

i format it and it keeps on saying that there was a error. i tried this on a Vista and XP witha Kingston 8GB usb and it still doesn’t work

By: Luka

Luka — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:41:47 +0000

TOM, run petousb as administrator

By: Niceguy

Niceguy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:08:44 +0000

This worked fine for me, but how do i implement drivers, updates and programs like adobe reader?

By: Ankur Gupta

Ankur Gupta — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 05:47:01 +0000

@taxi4u
Your integration process did not go correctly. Either you had a corrupted copy of Windows XP or you messed up the integration process. Format the drive and start over again.

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:27:12 +0000

This method doesn’t leave your copy of xp untouched. It creates by default a username of “userXP” along with a bunch of seemingly helpful but unmentioned registry tweaks.

By: taxi4u

taxi4u — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:24:58 +0000

needs some help
i did all the above step by step

at the end of the process i plugged my disk on key to the eee pc usb changed the boot order to boot from the usb

then i had to choose between test mode or gui installation i picked up text mode & i got this message :file is missing: \$WIN_BT\biosinfo.inf
could not be loaded

trying to install xp with the gui got : missing hal.dll

any suggestions ????

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:08:19 +0000

Mail me if you have any problems. palmrest@hotmail.com

By: Sammy

Sammy — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 22:06:42 +0000

“when im on step 3 its says it cant find any usb key connected even though i have an 8gb kingston usb key connected…”

Tom G

Known problem. I guess ur running vista. Go to control panel, users. There u shut down UAC and restart.

Then this guide works perfectly.

By: Paolo

Paolo — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:12:27 +0000

Unfortunatelly when I go to install xp right after the drive c formatting I get this message “The following value in the .SIF file used by setup is corrupted or missing”. Please help
Thanks

By: rolin

rolin — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:57:42 +0000

my laptop has no usb-hdd only usb-fdd how can i install xp without cd rom i tried to used usb prep8 work’s only on my desktop computer

By: jerjaysy

jerjaysy — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:11:26 +0000

ah. i cant download this file error (USB_PREP8)

By: Ninjux

Ninjux — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:14:52 +0000

i can’t run the 4 step…need some help

By: Excellent

Excellent — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:32:11 +0000

Very nice guide man

Thanks for all.

By: pinoysinbologna

pinoysinbologna — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 19:19:18 +0000

Try changing the drive letter. It might be automatically detected. I tried this using my 4gb and so far no problem whatsoever.
Goodluck!

Thanks for this tutorial.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:01:52 +0000

when im on step 3 its says it cant find any usb key connected even though i have an 8gb kingston usb key connected…

Tom G