[Help] Install XP to a USB HDD

[JamesRM]

Due to an 'accident' it will not accept Internal HDD's so the ultimate goal is to run Windows XP from a USB HDD mounted in an enclosure.

Did you disable mass storage controller at BIOS?

Then use usbhub.sys from XP Embedded.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee428799.aspx

http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=11196

<POSready2009_CD.iso>\Setup\USB\usbhub.sys

Don't understand what you are getting at. I haven't disabled mass storage controller at BIOS, don't even know how to or why I would want to.

The reason it will not accept Internal HDD's is because I dropped it.

(Crashed the heads of the HDD in there at the time as well )

Fundamently the system has no problem booting from USB, indeed I can run Ubuntu just fine from USB Flash drive.

Edited June 24, 2011 by JamesRM