screamer Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 Hi I have tryed this over and over and it still does not boot to the USB stick : (my Dell laptop is USB boot ready)I started it of in CMDdiskpart select disk 1 (being the usb drive) clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=fat32 assign exitthen I copyed using this command from the XP CD xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (the XP cd is fully bootable)Is their a different method of doing it. Please all the help I can get would be great.
jaclaz Posted May 28, 2007 Posted May 28, 2007 If it was so easy, would you think that a few people are fighting this battle since months without need?However a working solution has been found, do check this thread:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=61384&hl=First tutorial (with reported success) here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=128Second one here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...1384&st=178First thing however would be to make sure you can boot from THAT USB device on THAT computer, try using the HP utility, read the FAQ here, expecially #4 and #10:http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...SB/USBfaqs.htmljaclaz
buseeliu Posted May 29, 2007 Posted May 29, 2007 Hi I have tryed this over and over and it still does not boot to the USB stick : (my Dell laptop is USB boot ready)I started it of in CMDdiskpart select disk 1 (being the usb drive) clean create partition primary select partition 1 active format fs=fat32 assign exitthen I copyed using this command from the XP CD xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (the XP cd is fully bootable)Is their a different method of doing it. Please all the help I can get would be great.I thinks this method is for Installing Window VISTA from USB Flash drive.
spacesurfer Posted May 30, 2007 Posted May 30, 2007 Indeed, the steps in first post is for installing Vista, not XP.They have made installing Vista from HDD much easier. Installing XP from USB is a booger though.I never wasted my time trying to get XP to install from USB. Once installed, I create a Ghost image. Thus, I can bring back my original XP state with Ghost in 3-4 minutes max, with all my progs the way they were. No more installing drivers and restarting XP either.
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