If it goes beyond the partition selection, your drive is already fine for booting Windows XP. Start the installation, and proceed to the section where you are allowed to pick a hard drive. Then, shut down your computer, disconnect any other hard disk drives from it, and insert your original Windows XP CD into the drive. If you are not sure, proceed and see what happens -)Ģ) Sorting out the "Bootability" of your USB-DriveĬonnect your USB drive to your computer, directly, without a Hub. Usually, if its an option in your BIOS boot sequence menu, the answer to this is yes. I am also covering a few pitfalls that happened to me, in hope they will save you a bit of time.ġ) Does your computer support booting from USB?
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The resulting ISO image is burnt back onto a CD media, and can then directly be used to install Windows on your USB drive. We will dump the contents of your original Windows XP CD, extract a few files from the Image using ISO modification software, edit the files, and put the modified versions back on the ISO. * A CD-burning software that can handle ISO files. * A registered version of WinISO (or any other software that allows direct editing of ISO files) * An original Windows XP CD (tested only against SP1 so far, but reported to work on other versions)
* A USB2-compliant Hard disk drive (or a big USB2 stick, see remarks below) * An existing Windows install for carrying out the steps in this tutorial I've made a Prepatched rar file for this so you dont haveto but this is from the tutorial