@George King
Thank you so much for your effort! :D

I am successfully able to boot into safe mode, but now it's stuck on that "an exciting new look"-screen. It says "Wait end Plug and Play" and the "please wait..."-bar keeps cycling over and over. It sounds as if the hard drive is working, but no idea if anything will come out of it...

EDIT: I'm in safe mode now (black desktop) and it was updating drivers or something. Now Windows is performing a normal shutdown...
now after reboot, it says that hal.dll is missing or corrupt. The different boot options do not appear anymore. Aww... :(

Update: The same issue happens with the ISO you provided for @diderius6 ... Netbook becomes unresponsive during boot using option 4, but is able to get into Windows by using safe mode. Then it automatically updates drivers and performs a restart and upon next start Windows reports that hal.dll is missing or corrupted. :(

Sorry for this double post, but I have finally managed to install Windows XP! I used Win2Boot with the Win7 WINPE installer. It copied the files over to the hard drive. During the F6 prompt I pressed F7 and for some reason my netbook DIDN'T crash and it continue setup! Hooray! I am pretty certain that I did this trick before and that it didn't work before...

However, actually getting Windows XP to understand this netbook's hardware is a whole different thing. I was able to install Audio Devices, Bluetooth, WiFi and LAN without any problems, but I struggled to get the AMD Chipset Drivers (the most important thing!) installed. The crappy AMD Catalyst software would always hang at "detecting graphics hardware" and the installation would be aborted. I added most drivers myself, by going into the Device Manager and loading the drivers that got extracted from the AMD installation file (C:/AMD).

This system is far from perfect though. I noticed that I can copy files over from USB sticks just fine, but putting files on them doesn't work on any ports. Like, it shows the file got copied to the stick but when I disconnect the stick and connect it to another computer, the files that I supposedly successfully copied over are just gone!! So something is definitely wrong with the drivers that manage USB devices?

I also have an unknown device that is listed as a "Standard floppy disk controller" (ROOT\*PNP0700\1_0_13_0_0_0). My guess is that this is the device that tells my netbook that there's a battery. And right now, Windows thinks it's on a desktop. Any advice on how to get a driver for this installed? Oddly enough, I cannot use Standby and I have to turn the netbook off manually ("It is now safe to turn off your computer").

Another problem that I have: Windows uses a pagefile instead of RAM. I disabled the pagefile but Windows just ignores me and still uses the pagefile instead of RAM. I think 2.98GB (4 in total, but Windows XP 32 bit doesn't recognize the full amount) of RAM should be plenty enough... or does Windows not even recognize that there's RAM?

Here's two screenshots that I made on my netbook. I had to upload these on an image hosting service and download these on my PC since copying stuff to USB devices apparently doesn't work.




Thank you so much for your help so far! I'd really appreciate it if you'd help me out just a little further! :)