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Paul wrote:
Do you see this ?

"0x0000007B: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE"

Hi Paul! I know XP and anything older than SP2 or Windows 2000 SP4 will
fail to install from an USB optical drive.

Although I had an Alienware M9700 with a dead optical drive and I needed
to use the recovery disc (XP SP2) to dump Windows 7 and to put XP on it.
Oddly enough, the Alienware recovery disc would fail after first boot
from the USB drive. I thought that was odd. So it seemed time to replace
the failed internal optical drive and then try again. And that worked
perfectly.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo 1.83G - 2GB - Windows XP SP3