Lost a post, drat. Okay, here goes for recreating it...

Okay, I looked at the link, which lead to another, and another. Don't get me wr ong, i read them, but there's so many, it didn't take long for my eyes to start hurting. It doesn't look like it will be too helpful, but since i've been tinke ring with this project for months now, I can cover what I assume should work. I f anyone has better experience with this, let me know! Smile Steps required: 1) Format the flash drive using HP USB Disk Format Tool. Be sure to make it a M S-Dos bootdisk. (or Free-Dos) 2) Using nLite, Prepare a unattended WinXP Home ISO image. 3) Copy the main ISO to the flash drive. 4* Load SHSUCD setup onto the flash drive... 5* Setup Autoexec.bat to load the ISO as a CD Drive, using SHSUCD The problems I find with step 4 and 5 was I recently found out about SHSUCD, whi le chasing the links from the first post of yours. I am not sure how to setup/u se this program yet, and if it provides a solution, then I will post the refined process later on. However, I also ran into a comment on this site, that points out that Windows XP and systems after that from Microsoft boot in their own enviroment, so that wou ld render this process unuseable, since it relies on MS-Dos. Maybe I am taking the wrong approach... (also, yes, can boot from usb in bios.)

More detailled info: Installing XP from Sandisk U3 USB-stick the easy way 1) Buy a Sandisk Cruzer with U3 functionality 2) Download Universal_Customizer from here http://www.hak5.org/..._Customizer.zi p Or CREATE a patched LaunchPad Updater v1.4.0.2 as decribed below. 3) Make a (Nlite slimmed) XP bootable ISO see www.Nliteos.com Can be slimmed down to the bone. Manual install etc. can be removed. 4) Install Universal_Customizer 5) Delete U3CUSTOM.ISO in ../BIN Optionaly delete U3CUSTOM-dir, isocreate.cmd in ../BIN and ISOCreate.cmd in root . 6) Copy selfmade ISO in ../BIN directory Rename the ISO to U3CUSTOM.ISO, it can be any size fitting your USB-stick 7) Run Universal_Customizer.exe , follow instructions, be patient! 8) Boot from USB-CDROM and start installing XP

CREATE YOUR OWN UPDATER *** *** *** *** For informational purposes only *** Use at your own risk *** I will not be responsible if you damage your drive *** Backup Your Data ***

!!! The original instructions were found at http://usb.smithtech...s/u3updater.p hp 1. Download the Memorex LaunchPad Updater v1.4.0.2 http://www.memorex.c.../upgrade_vista/ 2. Download Universal Extractor http://www.legroom.n...ware/uniextract 3. Download Resource Hacker http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/ 4. Extract U3 Launchpad v1.4.0.2 Updater.exe to a folder with Universal Extracto r 5. Open UpdaterCore.exe from the folder you extracted the LaunchPad Updater to with Resource Hacker. 6. Expand "String Table". Expand "132". Click "1033". You should see STRINGTABLE LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US { 2096, "Skip" 2097, "Skip All" 2098, "Retry" 2099, "Abort" 2100, "Wrong password" 2101, "%d attempt(s) before device is permanently locked" 2102, "Failed to set password. To try again, please remove your %2 and reinsert it." 2103, "%1 failed to format your %2" 2104, "Backing up your data..." 2105, "Updating the %2 firmware..." 2106, "Restoring your data ..." 2107, "Formatting your %2..." 2108, "Updating your version of the U3 Launchpad..." 2109, "1.0.5.17\n" 2110, "bin\\Launchpad.iso" 2111, "\\\\Launchpad.zip" } Change 2109, "1.0.5.17\n" to 2109, "_LP_VERSION_" and 2110, "bin\\Launchpad.iso" to 2110, "bin\\U3CUSTOM.iso" Click the Compile Script button This just allowed you to update the drive over and over. This fools the updater in to thinking the firmware isnt updated 7. Expand "133", Click "1033", you should see 2123, "Memorex Inc." 2124, "Memorex Inc."

2125, "Memorex" Change the values to: 2123, 2124, 2125, Click "*" "*" "*" the Compile Script button

8. Expand "BIN", Expand "709", Click on "0", you should see <vendorId value="2284"/> <vendorName value="Memorex"/> <productName value="Mini TravelDrive"/> <productId value="22"/> Change the values to: vendorId value="*"/> <vendorName value="*"/> <productName value="*"/> <productId value="*"/> Click the Compile Script button 9. Click File and Save 10. Delete Updater.pdb 11. Delete the LaunchPad.iso file in the bin subdirectory and place to one of yo ur own Rename it to U3CUSTOM.iso 12. Run CoreUpdater.exe to install the U3CUSTOM.iso to your U3 Drive, follow instructions, be patient! 13. Boot from USB-CDROM and start installing XP ***Again do this at your own risk, I will not be responsible if you fry your dri ve, but it worked perfectly for me on a Sandisk micro cruzer 2GB***