Boot Windows XP from USB

Searching_ _ _ · Oct 16, 2008

http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176

Anyway, the web is full of those. I was wondering about the same thing, as i did not want to put a Windows partition on my Linux.based work laptop, and thought it was a good idea to run Windows XP off a USB Hard drive that i just plug in when i need it, and boot from it. To put a long story short, this is exactly what i do now, thanks to the fantastic research of the people credited below. However, it took me significant time to figure out all the painful little problems, and i was not fully happy with the current official guide by Dietmar (no pun, he was the first to make ANYthing public). I wanted an easy guide that allows creating a modified version of the Windows XP CD, for painless and transparent installation to as many systems as you want.
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I found this and think it's pretty cool. Have searched to see if someone had mentioned it, via wilders and google, nada.

Enjoy,

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Sully · Oct 16, 2008

My experience with xp and usb is dismal. Mainly because of 2 reasons. First, is that many motherboards a generation or two ago don't all support usb the same. So there is some inconsistency there. Second, usb xp install or running a live version (not including Bart) is very touchy. I did get to install xp from usb, and even had a boot image that ran xp in ram. However, it is not as configurable as an unattended dvd, so I dropped it and went back to my dvd's. Usb is faster, but for tweakers, it is not the same. IMO anyway.

Bootland and MSFN both have very good info for usb booting/installing.

Sul.

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