juzzie

Thanks ilko_t for detailed answer. I will install DiskMod and look into buying decent USB stick. Mine is couple of years old and maybe not the best one

I'm very pleased to try out this fine utility. My goal is to create USB flash drive with windows XP installed on it. So here is what I did: 1) Installed WinSetupFromUSB version 1.0 2) Used AOMEI Partition assistant to create NTFS partition of 4GB size on my 8Gb flsh drive. Marked it as active and set MBR to Windows XP; 3) Copied all contents of Nlite slipstrimmed XP SP3 to my hard drive 4 ) Launched WinSetupFromUSB and chose that XP directory as a source; 5) In Advanced options ticked a checkbox "Prepare Windows XP to be installed on USB" 6) Hit a GO button. It took me like 20 to 25 minutes to create the flashdrive with WinSetupFromUSB on my desktop pc. I also have a Dell laptop and I removed hard drive from it.Then I booted my Dell laptop with a flash drive and Plop manager displayed a choice to install windows xp (part1). I clicked there and windows setup copied files and gave me a choice to install XP to the same partition where WinSetupFromUSB was(it was drive letter U). Then machine rebooted and graphic interface started. It took me more than an hour to finish installtion. Now I have a bootable USB stick with windows xp installed on it. The problem though is that it starts up a little bit on a slower side and then displays Limited Virtual Memory message: Your system has no paging file or the paging file is too small.... Then I hit OK button and it loads windows xp. I have some questions for you guys: 1) Did I do everything correctly? 2) What are those utilities in WinSetupFromUSB installation folder: MULTIpartitionUSBstick, imdisk and etc? Was I supposed to use any of those? 3) Is there a way to force USB flash drive to be determined by XP like a fixed drive? In that case I probably could've had two partitions on USB stick and install XP to the second partition... 4) How can speed XP up to work on my usb drive as a minimum components OS - sort of like MINI-XP? 5) How to fix that paging file missing error? 6) I have a file in the root of USB flash disk, called "usbdrive.tag". For some reason it is Zero byte (0B) size. Is it normal?