I have followed all the instructions listed in this site very carefully. The only time i deviated from the procedure is formatting the USB drive. It says to use diskpart utility from vista. Since I don't have a vista PC, I just formatted it with standard Xp formatting tool. But I checked it after, it just had one primary partition with FAT32.
I removed DoM. With usb in one of the ports, I am starting the 4200 while holding the reset button. It starts up with start button flashing blue and within a second or two turns into steady amber and stays that way. All this while I am still pressing the reset button. Even after I release the reset button, nothing changes. HD1 light is steady blue. There is no disk activity - disk I/O indicator on 4200 and on USB are not flashing.
I was running EMC software before on 4200 successfully. Since then I removed both DoM and changed to a brand new HD for installing WHS. I tried with a single HD and 2 HDs. Same result. Not sure what else I can do.
Does anyone think formatting makes the difference? If So, can any one suggest any formatting procedure that does not require vista. Is anyone successful slipstreaming with xp formatted USB?
Thanks for your help,
UPDATE: After couple of days of frustration, SUCCESS. Yes, improper formatting of USB is the culprit. USB needs to be formatted in vista or win 7. Doing it in XP wouldn't cut it. Although xp disk manager would show it as having a one primary partition that is set to active, don't trust that.
for those of you who are in the same boat as me (who do not have access to vista pc), you can follow this neat little trick by gospeed.racer:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=25463455&postcount=138
To Sum it up, I followed the instructions listed in this site exactly and used the drivers uploaded by neO-AZN. Also followed his supplemental instructions.
I removed DoM. With usb in one of the ports, I am starting the 4200 while holding the reset button. It starts up with start button flashing blue and within a second or two turns into steady amber and stays that way. All this while I am still pressing the reset button. Even after I release the reset button, nothing changes. HD1 light is steady blue. There is no disk activity - disk I/O indicator on 4200 and on USB are not flashing.
I was running EMC software before on 4200 successfully. Since then I removed both DoM and changed to a brand new HD for installing WHS. I tried with a single HD and 2 HDs. Same result. Not sure what else I can do.
Does anyone think formatting makes the difference? If So, can any one suggest any formatting procedure that does not require vista. Is anyone successful slipstreaming with xp formatted USB?
Thanks for your help,
UPDATE: After couple of days of frustration, SUCCESS. Yes, improper formatting of USB is the culprit. USB needs to be formatted in vista or win 7. Doing it in XP wouldn't cut it. Although xp disk manager would show it as having a one primary partition that is set to active, don't trust that.
for those of you who are in the same boat as me (who do not have access to vista pc), you can follow this neat little trick by gospeed.racer:
http://slickdeals.net/forums/showpost.php?p=25463455&postcount=138
To Sum it up, I followed the instructions listed in this site exactly and used the drivers uploaded by neO-AZN. Also followed his supplemental instructions.