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Old 03-10-2007, 12:12 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Question Installing Win-XP using a USB pen drive


Is there any way to install Win-xp on a system w/o using CD-ROM and using a USB pen drive.If there is a way, then also tell me how can i be able to make my usb pen drive bootable and how can i be able to install win-xp from it.
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Old 03-10-2007, 02:00 PM   #2 (permalink)
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hey dude i can tell u how 2 install it using a usb device but have no idea how u can make ur usb bootable........

so 2 begin wid take ur win xp cd n copy d entire contents of it 2 ur pen drive....copy dem wid d same directory structure.....den restart ur comp...n use ne startup disk 2 cm 2 dos prompt...den in dos access ur pendrive n goto dat `i386` directory n use `winnt` to start ur installation.....

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Copy all ur XP CD on pen drive

And use this to make ur pendrive bootable.

OR
Use PEBuilder to Make a LiveXP.
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