Installing XP via USB - nLite problems

Hi all,

Get my AOA150-AB soon, and am preparing to install XP on it via USB.

I've been working for about 3 days trying to get it to work, as you can imagine I'm at wits' end with it. Have tried various install methods, it'd usually either:

a) In text-based setup tell me the EULA could not be found and force exit
b) In text-based setup tell me the "Windows XP CD containing the installation files could not be accessed"
c) Ask me for a Win98 or earlier CD even though it's not an upgrade edition
d) Not even bother booting into it at all
e) Hal.dll missing

Furthest I've got is with USBPrep_10.exe, bootsect.exe and the HP Disk Format Tool, I get to the screen where I can chose which disk to format, then when I try to format it tells me it could not be formatted, then upon pressing enter to continue it gives me the same old "The Windows XP CD containing the installation files could not be accessed" message and forces a restart.

Anybody have any idea what's causing these? Have I installed it to USB wrong? Have I nLited it wrong? :S been searching long and hard and found no fix.

It's a legit version of XP Pro with fresh install files pulled off the disk. Lastsession.ini:

Code:

[Main]
Env = 1.4.9.1 - 2.0.50727.5444.Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1
Target = Windows XP Professional SP3 - 5.1.2600.5512 - English (United States)

[Tasks]
Service Pack Integration
Remove Components
Unattended Setup
Integrate Drivers
Hotfixes and Update Packs
Tweaks
Create a Bootable ISO
Options

[Components]
;# Applications #
Accessibility Options
Briefcase
ClipBook Viewer
Games
Internet Games
NT Backup
Pinball
Screensavers
WordPad
;# Drivers #
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
Cameras and Camcorders
Display Adapters
Display Adapters (old)
Ethernet (LAN)
IBM PS/2 TrackPoint
IBM ThinkPad
ISDN
Logitech WingMan
Microsoft SideWinder
Modems
Multifunctional
Portable Audio
Printers
Scanners
SCSI/RAID
Serial Pen Tablet
Sony Jog Dial
Sound Controllers
Tape drives
Toshiba DVD decoder card
Wireless Ethernet (WLAN)
;# Hardware Support #
ALI 1535 SMBus Host Controller
ALI IDE Controller
ATM Support
Brother Devices
CMD PCI IDE Controller
CPU AMD
CPU Transmeta Crusoe
Firewire (1394) Support
Firewire Network support
Floppy Support
Gravis Digital GamePort
Iomega Zip drive
Joystick Support
Modem Support
Multi-port serial adapters
PCMCIA
Ramdisk
Smart Cards
Teletext codec
Toshiba PCI IDE Controller
USB Audio support
USB Ethernet
VIA PCI IDE Controller
Windows CE USB Host
;# Keyboards #
Albanian keyboard
Arabic (101) keyboard
Arabic (102) AZERTY keyboard
Arabic (102) keyboard
Armenian Eastern keyboard
Armenian Western keyboard
Azeri Cyrillic keyboard
Azeri Latin keyboard
Belarusian keyboard
Belgian (Comma) keyboard
Belgian (Period) keyboard
Belgian French keyboard
Bulgarian (Latin) keyboard
Bulgarian keyboard
Canadian French (Legacy) keyboard
Canadian French keyboard
Canadian Multilingual Standard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - Microsoft Pinyin IME 3.0 keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - NeiMa keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - QuanPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ShuangPin keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - US Keyboard keyboard
Chinese (Simplified) - ZhengMa keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Alphanumeric keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Array keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Big5 Code keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - DaYi keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New ChangJie keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - New Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Phonetic keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Quick keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - Unicode keyboard
Chinese (Traditional) - US Keyboard keyboard
Croatian keyboard
Czech (QWERTY) keyboard
Czech keyboard
Czech Programmers keyboard
Danish keyboard
Devanagari - INSCRIPT keyboard
Divehi Phonetic keyboard
Divehi Typewriter keyboard
Dutch keyboard
Estonian keyboard
Faeroese keyboard
Farsi keyboard
Finnish keyboard
French keyboard
FYRO Macedonian keyboard
Gaelic keyboard
Georgian keyboard
German (IBM) keyboard
German keyboard
Greek (220) keyboard
Greek (220) Latin keyboard
Greek (319) keyboard
Greek (319) Latin keyboard
Greek keyboard
Greek Latin keyboard
Greek Polytonic keyboard
Gujarati keyboard
Hebrew keyboard
Hindi Traditional keyboard
Hungarian 101-key keyboard
Hungarian keyboard
Icelandic keyboard
Irish keyboard
Italian (142) keyboard
Italian keyboard
Japanese Input System (MS-IME2002) keyboard
Japanese keyboard
Kannada keyboard
Kazakh keyboard
Korean Input System (IME 2000) keyboard
Korean keyboard
Kyrgyz Cyrillic keyboard
Latin American keyboard
Latvian (QWERTY) keyboard
Latvian keyboard
Lithuanian IBM keyboard
Lithuanian keyboard
Marathi keyboard
Mongolian Cyrillic keyboard
Norwegian keyboard
Polish (214) keyboard
Polish (Programmers) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT) keyboard
Portuguese (Brazilian ABNT2) keyboard
Portuguese keyboard
Punjabi keyboard
Romanian keyboard
Russian (Typewriter) keyboard
Russian keyboard
Serbian (Cyrillic) keyboard
Serbian (Latin) keyboard
Slovak (QWERTY) keyboard
Slovak keyboard
Slovenian keyboard
Spanish keyboard
Spanish Variation keyboard
Swedish keyboard
Swiss French keyboard
Swiss German keyboard
Syriac keyboard
Syriac Phonetic keyboard
Tamil keyboard
Tatar keyboard
Telugu keyboard
Thai Kedmanee (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Kedmanee keyboard
Thai Pattachote (non-ShiftLock) keyboard
Thai Pattachote keyboard
Turkish F keyboard
Turkish Q keyboard
Ukrainian keyboard
United States-Dvorak for left hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak for right hand keyboard
United States-Dvorak keyboard
United States-International keyboard
Urdu keyboard
US English Table for IBM Arabic 238_L keyboard
Uzbek Cyrillic keyboard
Vietnamese keyboard
;# Languages #
;Arabic
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Jordan)
Arabic (Kuwait)
Arabic (Lebanon)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Qatar)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Syria)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (U.A.E.)
Arabic (Yemen)
Divehi (Maldives)
Syriac (Syria)
Urdu
;Armenian
Armenian
;Baltic
Estonian
Latvian
Lithuanian
;Central Europe
Albanian
Croatian
Czech
Hungarian
Polish
Romanian
Serbian (Latin)
Slovak
Slovenian
;Cyrillic
Azeri (Cyrillic)
Belarusian
Bulgarian
FYRO Macedonian
Kazakh
Kyrgyz (Kyrgyzstan)
Mongolian (Mongolia)
Russian
Serbian (Cyrillic)
Tatar
Ukrainian
Uzbek (Cyrillic)
;Georgian
Georgian
;Greek
Greek
;Hebrew
Hebrew
;Indic
Gujarati (India)
Hindi
Kannada (India)
Konkani
Marathi
Punjabi (India)
Sanskrit
Tamil
Telugu (India)
;Japanese
Japanese
;Korean
Korean
;Simplified Chinese
Chinese (PRC)
Chinese (Singapore)
;Thai
Farsi
Thai
;Traditional Chinese
Chinese (Hong Kong S.A.R.)
Chinese (Macau S.A.R.)
Chinese (Taiwan)
;Turkic
Azeri (Latin)
Turkish
Uzbek (Latin)
;Vietnamese
Vietnamese
;# Multimedia #
AOL ART Image Format Support
DirectX diagnostic tool
Images and Backgrounds
Media Center
MIDI audio support
Mouse Cursors
Movie Maker
Music Samples
Old CDPlayer and Sound Recorder
Speech Support
Tablet PC
;# Network #
Client for Netware Networks
Communication tools
Comtrol Test Terminal Program
FrontPage Extensions
Internet Information Services (IIS)
MSN Explorer
Netmeeting
NetShell Cmd-Tool
NWLink IPX/SPX/NetBIOS Protocol
Synchronization Manager
Vector Graphics Rendering (VML)
Web Folders
Windows Messenger
;# Operating System Options #
.NET Framework
Administrator VB scripts
Application compatibility patch
Auditing Resource Dlls
Certificate Management
Disk and Profile Quota
Disk Cleanup
Document Templates
DR Watson
Extensible Storage Engine (Esent97)
FAT to NTFS converter
File and Settings Wizard
Help and Support
Help Engine
IExpress Wizard
MS Agent
MS XML 2.0
Private Character Editor
Remote Installation Services (RIS)
Search Assistant
Service Pack Messages
Tour
User account pictures
Web View
;# Services #
Error Reporting
Fax Service
IMAPI CD-Burning COM Service
Indexing Service
Messenger
QoS RSVP
Quality of Service (QoS)
Remote Registry
Removable Storage
Route Listening Service
RPC Locator
Secondary Logon
Service Advertising Protocol
Simple TCP/IP Services
System Restore Service
Task Scheduler
Telnet
Uninterruptible Power Supply
Volume Shadow Copy
;# Directories #
DOCS
SUPPORT
VALUEADD
;# Compatibility #
Compat01
Compat02
Compat03
Compat04
Compat06

[KeepFiles]
msconfig.exe

[RemoveFiles]
clock.avi
yahoo.bmp
swtchbrd.bmp

[Options]
ProfilesDir = "%SystemDrive%\Documents and Settings"
TargetPath = "WINDOWS"
temp_dir = %USERPROFILE%\Local Settings\Temp
AdvTweaks

[Patches]
DoSFC

[Services2]
Eventlog,4
SysmonLog,4
RasAuto,4
RasMan,4

[Tweaks]
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-End tasks immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung applications immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Auto-Kill hung services immediately
Boot and Shutdown-Ctrl-Alt-Del at logon-Disabled
Boot and Shutdown-Disable automatic restart on System Failure
Boot and Shutdown-Do not Parse Autoexec.bat
Boot and Shutdown-Logon Page-Classic
Desktop-Internet Explorer icon-Hide
Desktop-My Computer icon-Show
Desktop-My Documents icon-Show
Desktop-My Network Places icon-Hide
Desktop-Recycle Bin icon-Show
Explorer-Classic Control Panel
Explorer-Disable Prefix: Shortcut to
Explorer-Disable shortcut arrow
Explorer-Display the contents of system folders
Network-Allow receiving Remote Assistance-Disable
Network-Remote Desktop-Disable
Performance-Disable Last accessed Timestamp on files
Performance-Disable Tracking of Broken Shortcut Links
Performance-Disable Warn on low disk space
Performance-Disable WBEM logging
Performance-Do not cache thumbnails
Privacy-Remove Alexa
Start Menu-Control Panel-Display as a link
Start Menu-Disable and remove Documents list from the Start Menu
Start Menu-My Computer-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Documents-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Music-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Network Places-Display as a link
Start Menu-My Pictures-Display as a link
Start Menu-Network Connections-Don't display this item
Start Menu-Printers and Faxes-Don't display this item
Start Menu-Remove Search For People from Search
Start Menu-Remove Search the Internet from Search
Start Menu-Remove Set Program Access and Defaults
Start Menu-Remove Windows Catalog shortcut
Taskbar-Disable Group similar Taskbar buttons
Taskbar-Disable Language-Bar
Windows Media Player-Accept Privacy Statement
Windows Media Player-Disable starting with Media Guide

[Unattended]
NoPassExpSpec
ComputerType = Automatic
HibernationNo
AutoLogon = spleenharvester
FirewallOff
CustomLocales
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 12
RestorePointLife = 30
DesktopTheme = Default||
AutoUpdates = 2
AutoUDay = 5
AutoUHour = 15
ProgFilesPath = "\Program Files"
CustomNetwork

[DesktopThemes]
C:\Users\spleenharvester\AppData\Local\Temp\Royale_theme\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme

[GuiRunOnce]

[Drivers]
C:\nLite\atheros.inf,0

[Hotfixes]
C:\nLite\RVMUpdatePackSP3_1.0.3.7z

Cheers all

Cheers