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#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP INSTALL#
#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP CODE#
#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP PLUS#
#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP WINDOWS#

Open up My Computer and note which drive letter is assigned to your DVD drive and your USB flash drive. Put the DVD in your computer's DVD drive.

#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP WINDOWS#

You now need your Windows Vista or 7 installation DVD.

Keep the command prompt window open, but you can minimize it for a little bit. (may take a few minutes, depending on the USB drive size) ASSIGN EXIT

Type in the following commands, one by one, pressing Enter after each command.ĬLEAN CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY SELECT PARTITION 1 ACTIVE FORMAT FS=NTFS.

Usually, the USB drive will be the last drive. If you're not sure what disk is the USB disk, eject the USB drive, perform step number 2 again, connect the USB drive again, and compare the results. It should now state the USB drive is the selected disk. Find the disk number of your USB drive and type SELECT DISK, where "" is the disk # for your USB drive.

A listing of the disk drives connected to your computer appears.

See our diskpart command page for additional information on this command.

Ensure your USB drive is plugged in, type DISKPART, then press Enter.

At the command prompt, type cd c:\windows\system32 to change the directory to the Windows System32 directory.

You can also access this by navigating to Start, All Programs, Accessories, right-click with your mouse on the Command Prompt menu item and select Run as Administrator.

Open an elevated Windows command line window by clicking Start, typing in cmd in the search text field, then pressing Ctrl+ Shift+ Enter on your keyboard (at the same time).

#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP CODE#

This code doesn't have the check for removable storage.You need to have a Windows Vista or Windows 7 DVD for these instructions to be successful. When it starts XP, it doesnt run the Windows bootloader code and runs its own code instead. Since the Linux bootloader detects other installations on the computer, it will give you the option of starting XP. When Linux is installed, it installs its bootloader (GRUB) to the master boot record.

#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP INSTALL#

Let this finish as normal and you have a working install of Windows Why this works (or at least my educated guess) - The code that checks if windows is being run from a removable device is in the windows bootloader (ntldr). This should start up the second half of the installation. Choose the Windows XP option and hit enter. Swap back to the Windows CD, and let the GRUB menu pop up. Finish the installation as normal and reboot. Choose to resize the drive and give the Ubuntu installation about 2.5GB of the available space. Go through its installation steps until it asks for what drive to put it on. Choose install, and let it boot into its setup. At this point, swap to a Linux live CD (I used Ubuntu 8.04) and let it boot to its startup menu. Let the installation continue as normal until it reboots. Go ahead and partition the whole disk as your windows partition, and format it to the file system of your choice (I prefer FAT32). Put the Windows CD in the drive, and let the computer boot into the setup. Click apply and once it completes, exit gparted. Select the maximum available space and set the format to FAT32. Right click the unpartitioned space and click New Partition. This should leave you with the whole drive as unpartitioned space. Select the disk that represents your CF drive and right click the partition on it, and click delete. Go to a terminal and run the command, "sudo gparted" (without the quotations). Put the Linux live CD in and let the computer boot up. With your CF adapter properly installed in your computer, install only the card that you want to use as the boot drive and verify that the computer recognizes it as master. This will require either an internal CD-ROM drive or an external USB CD-ROM drive connected, and the BIOS set to boot from the CD drive before the hard drive. This will keep you from using two microdrives on the same IDE connector Note that some embedded microdrives will internally be wired as master and will not work at all in the slave position on a dual CF adapter. The microdrive is limited to 8GB in size, but work well when coupled with a standard CF card. It has the small form factor of a CF flash drive but without the read/write limitations. If the write cycle problem is a deal breaker, a microdrive is another good option. Write cycles is another consideration, since all normal CF media has a limited number of write cycles. Buy the best that you can afford, as a 4GB card can be had for $10 off of ebay. Speed is also an issue, as read and write speeds are slower than on a conventional hard drive and slower read times can lead to longer startup times. With this in mind, I would recommend no less than a 4GB card.

#HOW TO MAKE A FLASH DRIVE BOOTABLE FOR XP PLUS#

For this to work, there will have to be enough room on your CF card for your install of XP plus an install of your favorite distro of Linux.