Is easier as you can simply make the installer USB drive for it. But what if you want to install Windows XP from USB drive?
It is not so easy as like as you did for the Windows Vista, 7 or Windows 8. To install XP from a USB/Pen drive, you need to follow some advanced steps. Because, Windows XP does not have the ‘boot from USB’ drive feature.
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If you put in a windows XP install disk, and run magic ISO, you can extract the boot loader file right from it. But remember that EACH boot loader file MUST be matched to the OS you are booting, so if you are trying to create a single DVD with XP, OSX and linux on it, you can have only one boot loader per disk -- or per disk image. This guide explains how to create a Windows bootable USB drive for the following Windows versions: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Creating a bootable USB drive will allow you to install Windows from the USB drive directly.
But, you can still or flash drive in your computer using by following this simple how-to guide (If you are facing any issue with your USB drive then read ). Is always useful. Especially, if the CD or DVD-ROM of your computer does not work properly then this is a handy way to get your computer installed with XP.
When you insert the installer disk in your CD/DVD-ROM, the machine detects it and prompts for “Press any key to boot from cd”. By then, you can format the hard disk, make the partitions and then you can install the operating system in your system. The same thing does not happen with you if you just copy the content of a Windows XP installer disk into a USB drive. You need to make your USB drive bootable.
Here, in this article, I’ve discussed the best way to setup Windows XP from USB Drive step-by-step. How To Prepare Windows XP Bootable USB Stick Step 1. Firstly, download the software which does not need any installation. Just double-click the setup file and the following screen appears. Head to the ‘Task’ tab and choose your task as the following. Choose the Task type as “Transfer Windows XP/2003 setup to flash” from the drop-down.
Click the ‘Create’ button. Click the ‘Next’ button to continue. Select the source path of the Windows installation disk. Or, locate the path of the copy that is dumped at your hard drive as well as the path of your USB flash/pen drive.
Click the ‘Next’ button and wait until the bootable copy is prepared into your USB Flash drive. Once completed, you can start installing Windows XP. It is a pretty easy to install the from that USB drive. Just boot your computer from that USB stick. To do that follow the steps below.
How to Install Windows XP from USB Flash Drive Step 2. After preparing the bootable USB device (with any of the above processes), you need to boot your computer from the USB drive to start the setup process. Go through the following steps in order to boot your PC/Laptop from the removable device. Press the F2 key (or the DELETE key, it varies with the brand of your computer mother board) to enter into the BIOS settings. Head to the “Boot” menu and set the boot preference for the Removable disk as “First”. Save the setup and exit by pressing the F10 key. Now your computer should boot from the USB/pen drive.
Just follow the onscreen instruction to complete the setup. Hope this helps to setup Windows XP in your desktops or laptops which do not have CD or DVD drive.
You can just do it from a USB drive. You can also go through a longer but more reliable way to prepare bootable USB stick and setup Windows XP from the removable drive – (recommended).
Rahul: It seems that you did not setup the bios option. Press F10 when your computer boots. It will take you into the bios window. Find for system configuration or some thing like that, then find Boot Options. Now click on it.
Set the USB drive as the first option to boot from. You can take a reference from this image:.
Now save the settings. You will be guided to save the bios settings.
Complete the steps carefully. Now I recommend to follow this procedure to make your usb drive bootable: techtipsgeek.com/windows-xp-bootable-usb-drive/1286/. Let me know if it solves your problem. Note: Here I have given you some links. Simply copy the link in your browser address bar to open. Format 2 flash drives with fat32 file system.
Make 1 flash drive bootable using win98se.iso or.img found on net. Copy i386 directory on 2nd flash drive. A: will be first flash, e: will be the second. Copy smartdrive.exe found on win98se oem cd toolsoldmsdos or on net to flash drive containing i386 directory.
Boot machine with both flash drives. May get error “Non System Disk” while bios looks for bootable hdd.
Fdisk, format and install from i386 directory on second flash drive using “winnt” (load smartdrv.exe first). Recommended good high speed flash drives on newer systems to avoid timeout errors during installation or copy i386 directory to formatted hdd.
Hi Miro, I think you’ve selected a wrong source! When putting the CD on the CD-Rom, just verify the drive of your CD-Rom, whether it’s drive D or E. If your CD-Rom is drive D, just select drive D. After that, the USB will able to copy your XP CD to USB thumb drive. How would you verify what drive is your CD-Rrom? Just click My Computer and look for the icon that represent you CD or DVD-Rom. There is a single letter on there, like D, E, G or something else, it depends on how many partitions you’ve done on your hard drive.
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After you created that bootable USB, ofcourse you have to plug it in the USB port of your computer, and then boot your computer. Press Delete or F2 key in your keyboard to enter into BIOS. You’ll be directed to BIOS of your PC. BIOS stands for Basic Input and Output System. Just look for the boot sequence there, and then you will going to notice that it boots from your hard disk, change it to boot from USB, because you are going to install the Win XP using USB. After saving the changes you have made, as the computer boots up again just follow the instructions on the screen. Hope that this will help you dude!
Dear sir, after using Win2flash and selecting text mode for setup, and loading all drivers. It gives a message of installing windows xp on ” drive w: ” though there is no such partition on the disk. When clicking on any of the options, “Convert the partition to NTFS” and “Leave the current file system intact (no changers)”. It checks c: drive then drive w: afterwhich displays a msg ” Setup has determined that drive w: is corrupted and cannot continue”. Plz tell me wht to do, im so frustrated as i dont have cd/dvd rom. It is a simple process and it works. Well it worked for me.
A few things you need to remember. Follow the steps closely.
If you miss something it will not work. Make sure you have set your bios to boot from USB as the first option.
When it boots, it gives you 3 options. Select the first one. The files copy really slow but it works. When you boot into the setup, if it goes straight into saying it has to format your drive, press Esc and it should show you a list of all the drives on your pc.
If you are installing on a new drive and it has not been formatted yet, go into the setup, format it and then restart your pc. I have sometimes had the issues where it installs it as D.
You do not want this. But by formatting it and restarting the setup it will pick up your HDD as C: and your USB as D. Which is the coreect way to have it. Worked great for me.
I used wintoflash to built a bootable USB drive. I have a Compaq Presario 6000, with a completely empty hdd (erased with KILLDISK, formatted to NTFS).
The drive boots, and starts loading my XP SP1 Version 2002 upgrade (I have the base OS of Windows 98 in the USB attached cd reader because Windows XP upgrade requires it). Windows XP install gets to the point of the first re-boot under XP, and then I get a meesage that there is a disk issue. I ran hdd diagnostic tests using BIOS, and they come back clean. What is the problem?
It is a simple process and it works. Well it worked for me. A few things you need to remember. Follow the steps closely. If you miss something it will not work. Make sure you have set your bios to boot from USB as the first option. When it boots, it gives you 3 options.
Select the first one. The files copy really slow but it works. When you boot into the setup, if it goes straight into saying it has to format your drive, press Esc and it should show you a list of all the drives on your pc. If you are installing on a new drive and it has not been formatted yet, go into the setup, format it and then restart your pc. I have sometimes had the issues where it installs it as D. You do not want this.
But by formatting it and restarting the setup it will pick up your HDD as C: and your USB as D. Which is the coreect way to have it. Worked great for me.
Please help I installed windows 8 on my desktop PC but after 2 days it was showing me disk error after automatic repair it was working properly but again on the next day it was showing me the same problem, disk error. I thought better to install windows 7. When I enter into the bios set up menu it was showing no HDD, actually I had 500 sata HDD again after 30 minutes the HDD was showing. When I was trying to install windows and at the time of disk partition again it was showing me no disk drive found. Again I restart and while entering into bios it is not showing HDD. What could be the problems? Please help Any suggestion for solving the problem.
WinSetupFromUSB is a Windows program, which prepares or fixed disk to install any Windows versions since 2000/XP, boot various Linux and.BSD flavors, as well as many Windows, Linux, DOS based and other utilities. Since version 1.1 program can create USB disk with Windows versions which support (U)EFI (Vista x64 SP1 and later x64 versions), which USB disk can be used in both (U)EFI and Legacy BIOS modes. The install Windows from USB project started as a challenge back in 2006 at the msfn.org forum.
With the invaluable contribution of several forum members, it was the first method to have regular XP setup run from a USB disk, just like if started from a CD media. WinSetupFromUSB Free Download Latest Version for Windows PC. It is full offline setup installer of WinSetupFromUSB.
WinSetupFromUSB program was made later on to offer graphical interface, and program functionality was slowly extended to allow many other sources in a multiboot USB disk. WinSetupFromUSB can also prepare Windows XP (2000, 2003) setup files to be installed from USB disk onto the same or another USB disk. What can be added to the USB disk using WinSetupFromUSB:. Multiple sets of Windows setup files- XP, 2000, 2003, Vista, WIndows 7, Server 2008, Windows 8, Server 2012, both 32 and 64 bit versions are supported. As of version 1.1 program allows to create a USB disk which can boot both in BIOS and (U)EFI mode. Multiple WinPE2 (Vista and above) based sources from ISO files such as Windows Defender Offline, recent Norton Ghost versions and PE (preinstallation environment) based PC manufacturers recovery disks. Single WinPE1 source, such as BartPE, UBCD4Win, LiveXP and similar WinBuilder projects, WinFLPC etc.
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