Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip the section on preparing a flash drive and jump straight to the installation instructions. Also, keep in mind, these notes were written for installing Windows XP on the HP 2133 Mini-Note. Although many of these steps will apply for different computers, some of the commands may differ a little bit.Update 2: If you’re trying to install Windows 7 on a netbook, Microsoft is making things even easier. Just use the Windows 7 USB tool.Installing Windows XP or any other operating system is easy if you have a USB optical disc drive. But if all you’ve got is a USB flash drive and another computer with a DVD burner, you can still install Windows XP (or many Linux distributions for that matter) on a disc drive-less ultraportable like the HP Mini-Note or the Asus Eee PC. After spending most of Saturday installing Windows XP on my HP Mini-Note I thought I’d share my results with you.
- Cara Install Windows Xp Dengan Usb Flash Drive
- How To Create A Bootable Usb Flash Drive To Install Windows Xp
Remember, your results may very, so while these are the steps that worked for me, they may not work for you. For example, depending on the version of Windows XP you are using, you may need a different hotfix to install the audio drivers.There were two resources that were extraordinarily helpful.
Cara Install Windows Xp Dengan Usb Flash Drive
Bsumpter at MiniNoteUser wrote up for installing XP on a Mini-Note, and EeeGuides has a great walkthrough for. By combining these methods and a few other, I was able to setup my Mini-Note with a Windows partition, a spare partition for installing Linux, and a large data partition for shared files.Here’s what you’ll need:. 1 USB flash drive, 1GB or larger. 1 Windows XP installation disc.
Assorted files that I’ll describe as we go along.Preparing the flash driveFirst up, we need to prepare the flash drive. Download and unzip.
It should contain 2 folders: 1 titled Bootsect, and the other USBprep8. Navigate to the USBprep8 folder and click on usbprep8.cmd.
How To Create A Bootable Usb Flash Drive To Install Windows Xp
Brad, is there no way to preserve the system restore partition, i.e., just replace the larger VISTA partition with XP? While I don’t think I’d ever voluntarily go back to VISTA, it might in a pinch be useful if you’re on the road and the XP partition somehow becomes corrupted. Granted, I could also carry around my 1 GB USB drive to restore XP from scratch. Anyway, I tried to leave the VISTA restore partition behind and XP installed okay, but then the machine wouldn’t boot from the hard disk (always got some sort of “bad OS” error at startup). Booting from the flash drive worked, but mucking with the boot.ini didn’t help.
Incidentally, when I then tried to do the XP install again with the same memory stick, the text mode option always failed with “INF file txtsetup.sif corrupt or missing, status 18” error. So now my machine Read more ». Hi Brad, thanks for trying to answer but I haven’t got as far as you think. My fault for not being too clear in my post, so I’ll try again. Sorry for the long post. I have formatted and produced a bootable USB stick with XP but when I try to boot the Mini-Note from the USB stick I get “$WINNTS.BTbiosinfo.inf could not be loaded.
The error code is 14.” I have manually copied this file into the $WINNTS.BT directory and I get a little further before it tells me there is another missing file. I have rebooted my desktop XP machine and started over with the same result. I think that the “missing” files are present on the USB stick but perhaps not in the correct directories (folders).I’m not sure how this happened since I have followed your instructions to the letter (but I’m a newbie with this stuff). I have two suggestions.1. Try repeating all the steps over again.
Sometimes you need to completely reformat the flash drive and add all of the installation files to it again. I have no idea why.2. It’s possible that you have a USB stick that you cannot boot from. I’m not sure what sets some sticks apart from others, but I do have one stick that I can’t seem to mark bootable no matter how many different Windows or Linux tools I used. If you’ve got a different flash drive or an SD card that you can try, that may help. This same problem happened for me.
OK These days I was trying to copy my windows xp setup disk in my pendrive and install it from there. I became mad because I was looking for something very easy to use that just take seconds to do what I want. This software exist!
Rufus can make a bootable usb disk using MS-DOS stored in the system or using a system ISO. You can create Windows XP, Windows 7 or Linux bootdisk very easily!these are the steps to follow!. Download rufus from. Plug in your USB Flash drive. to make a Windows bootdisk (Windows XP/7) select NTFS as file system. then click on the buttons that looks like a DVD drive, that one near to the checkbox that says 'Create bootable disk usng:'. Choose the XP ISO.
Click StartDone!Enjoy.