No HDD on USB boot - Windows XP

Yoz. I want to Tri-boot Ubuntu, XP, and Win7 on this.

I've made a USB-stick bootable with Win XP ISO on it. Everything is chipper until I get to the screen on where to install Win XP. It appears the the HDD does not show up as a candidate to install, only the bootable 8gb stick.

So either this has no SATA drivers for XP (works great on any other PC/laptop with XP/7/etc) or the HDD is hidden somehow. What gives? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance guys

I included a screenshot to show the internal HDD does not show up.

 

That's your problem, no F6 drivers for XP so it won't see the hard drive.

 

All good, I got it going, just used nLite to pop in the ich9m-e driver from the inf and good to go. Cheers

http://www.nliteos.com/

 

Congrats, educated me! Thanks.

 

You can boot off an external USB hard drive and run XP from there, without doing any kind of internal partitioning. BUT, I do not know how to make WinXP use the USB drive for a page file. This means you have no virtual memory, so this approach is only really useful for people with 1 GB RAM.

You want to partition your USB disk (via disk utility) into 2 partitions, one for windows, and one that can be very small (say 5mb). Make sure that you go into options and choose to partition using MBR.

Now, copy refit onto the little partition, and run the enable.sh script to bless this partition.

You need to prepare an usb-bootable version of the Windows install disk
you will also need to pull the internal drive out of your Mac. Mac book owners will find this very easy. Once the internal drive is out, boot off the Win install disk you made (hold down C at boot). In the installer, choose to delete the non-refit partition, and create a new partition to install into.

During installation, you will need to reboot. Hold down Option to get the boot selection. You should see your refit partition appear as a choice. Choose that, and select Boot windows from partition n. Finish up the install.

Now you can reinstall your internal disk if you want.. To boot windows, do the hold option and choose refit thing.

You will not have a virtual memory page file. A side effect of this is that windows will tell you about it at every boot. An annoying quirk is that sometimes you will log in and things will appear to stall at "Loading/Applying your personal settings. Hit Alt-Tab to make the no-page-file dialog box appear, click OK and login will continue.

Now you can install the WinXP Mac hardware drivers from the boot camp disk. You can make that disc by running the boot camp assistant but not choosing to partition your disc.

I Hope this will Helps you..