I am trying to install Windows Vista on my laptop in which the CD drive no longer works. I decided I would install via USB flash drive. On that same laptop I created my bootable flash drive, vLited it to remove some undeeded things and now my laptop wont boot. It tells me that im missing a "hal.dll" file.
So now my laptop is out of commission fully. I have resorted to my old desktop which is running on windows xp. I want to create another bootable flash drive from an original unaltered copy of vista that i have just aquired. When I run DISKPART I cannot get the thing to show up in "LIST DISK" it just shows my computers harddrive. It is fully plugged in and shows up when I go to "my computer" as I: but not in diskpart. Any ideas why?
Im quite desperate now. And am willing to try anything. Can anyone help?
Answer
Looks like you are out of luck to create a bootable USB drive from XP which will work for installing Vista, according to this blog article by James O'Neill at MS. You need to find a Vista / Win7 / Server 2008 machine to do this, or try and fix the install you already have as advised by harrymc.
And maybe don't vLite it next time round?
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