Installing Win XP from Flash Drive?

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Cburg

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Dear Forum,
I have a new old computer; a Dell Latitude X1, and am trying to install windows xp on a new hard drive. It does not have a CD drive, so I have loaded XP on a flash drive using WinToFlash program. When I try to boot from USB, it says: Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: <Windows root>\system32\hal.dll.
I tried copying the file from my computer to the flash drive, but the computer does not recognize it now that I have loaded windows installation program.
Can anyone help?
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Mike
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i_hate_toms

New Member
Great that you got it. But it would be even better if you could post what went wrong, so that someone, facing a similar issue, would get the solution without having to ask the question all over again? Thanks :)
 
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