Booting XP from USB

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Hi Folks,
How to boot Windows XP, for that matter any Windows OS,
From Usb???
How to do it, My motherboard supports booting from USB...

Details answers Plz...

Bye
 
Windows cannot boot from an USB drive. If your computer supports
booting from such device, you can load a boot loader to the USB device
which starts Windows XP from the hard drive.

How-To: Boot Windows XP Off a Compact Flash Card
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/425/how-to_boot_windows

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User
Microsoft Newsgroups

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| Hi Folks,
| How to boot Windows XP, for that matter any Windows OS,
| From Usb???
| How to do it, My motherboard supports booting from USB...
|
| Details answers Plz...
|
| Bye
 
what's the size of USB? 4 Gb?
IIRC, a group of people trying to develop ramdisk booting

While sipping a glass of wine, I read that Abbas wrote in
 
Your M/B may support booting from a USB drive but Windows XP doesn't.

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Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 

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