[dare18]

First of all I want to say hello to all forum members here and I really hope someone can help me cause im really desperate.

After days and days trying to fix my mini (the problem with HDD size saying 0mb) I finally found a solution and now it is supposed to be fixed (it is showing HDD size 7683MB). But the problem now is installing windows xp. I tried with wintoflash and winsetupfromusb and I also tried it with multiple usb sticks but every time when I try to boot (selected removable device) the screen goes black and there is white line in top left corner blinking and nothing happens. Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? I would appreciate any help.

[holmes4]

That blinking cursor means that it failed to boot from a device that had a boot sector.

[dare18]

Originally Posted by holmes4

That blinking cursor means that it failed to boot from a device that had a boot sector.

But why did ut fail to boot when i tried with multible usb sticks and every one of them had the same issue...i really dont get it the only problem is that the bios just doesnt want to boot from the usb even though windows xp is installled on the drive and it is boootable it just doesnt want to boot and i have no idea why...

[holmes4]

Make sure that "legacy USB" is enabled in the BIOS.

[dare18]

legacy usb is enabled. When i tried with other USB and winsetupfromusb it managed to boot but i got into grub4dos instead of xp setup and I have no ideal what to do now..

[holmes4]

I'd suggest then that the method you used to create the XP setup on the USB didn't work. Do you have another PC you can try the USB stick on to see if it boots corrctly?