USB Key Boot XP

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Brett Evanson

I am trying to develop a device that needs to run without the added heat and
power necessities of a hard drive, so i was going to use a usb key as the
hard drive, but windows xp won't let me install onto it. i have the bios set
right, but there is a limitation somewhere not letting me set it up as i
would like to. has anybody been able to install windows xp onto a jump drive
and boot from it? i would like any advice or discouragement. thanks in
advance for your time and expertise.

Brett
 
Forget it. You can't boot up an OS from USB Flash drive. Security
features otherwise people will go around carrying flash drives to steal
information from systems.
 
Brett Evanson said:
I am trying to develop a device that needs to run without the added heat
and power necessities of a hard drive, so i was going to use a usb key as
the hard drive, but windows xp won't let me install onto it. i have the
bios set right, but there is a limitation somewhere not letting me set it
up as i would like to. has anybody been able to install windows xp onto a
jump drive and boot from it? i would like any advice or discouragement.
thanks in advance for your time and expertise.
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http://www.informationweek.com/windows/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=177102101

the article mentions a boot usb tool that bartpe introduced but I could not
find any reference to booting usb at http://www.bartpe.org/

If you get it working be sure to post it here or email me, I am interested.

I have booted RH9 linux from 1GB flash that plugged into the IDE header.
Worked fine, works at high altitudes where disk drives cannot function.
Picture here: http://tinyurl.com/s2mws it is the chip with the purple label
with a 5v power line at the top of the dual xeon. Core dump was bigger than
available memory so the code had to be good or we were dead in the air
(literally).


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how did you hook up the usb to the ide header? that could help us out a lot.

brett
 
Brett Evanson said:
how did you hook up the usb to the ide header? that could help us out a
lot.
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You misunderstood ..it is an all-in-one 1GB ide drive substitute. We
purchased the device. It has a built in bridge chip that interfaces to its
on board flash memory. It does take 5 volts external as the IDE connector
on motherboards does not supply voltage to run the bridge.

We did not attempt XP on it. All we needed was an ftp and telnet service
and to be able to run our application. Embedded XP is another way to go.
There is a limit on the number of times flash can be rewriten so you
probably want enough memory to not need a swap file and make do with ram
drives for all temp storage. With 1GB size we were limited to linux console
shell, but then, what does a GUI do for you when runnning embedded apps.


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Brett Evanson said:
I am trying to develop a device that needs to run without the added heat
and power necessities of a hard drive, so i was going to use a usb key as
the hard drive, but windows xp won't let me install onto it. i have the
bios set right, but there is a limitation somewhere not letting me set it
up as i would like to. has anybody been able to install windows xp onto a
jump drive and boot from it? i would like any advice or discouragement.
thanks in advance for your time and expertise.

Brett
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You enable booting a USB device (if possible) in the BIOS as described in
the computer manual.
Jim
 
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