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July 7th 08, 03:03 AM
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bootable usb stick question
I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and
came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. 
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July 7th 08, 06:00 AM
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bootable usb stick question
In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote:
I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. Havent tried it yet myself but i downloaded off of a bittorrent site a program and batchfile that claims to be able to make a small XP install on any sized stick 256mb or above.
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July 7th 08, 07:18 PM
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bootable usb stick question
do you remember the name of the program?
glenzabr@nospam; xmission.com (GMAN) wrote in message ... In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote: I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. Havent tried it yet myself but i downloaded off of a bittorrent site a program and batchfile that claims to be able to make a small XP install on any sized stick 256mb or above.
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July 7th 08, 09:21 PM
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bootable usb stick question
In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote:
do you remember the name of the program? Just do a search on Google for "Windows XP USB Stick Edition" glenzabr@nospam; xmission.com (GMAN) wrote in message ... In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote: I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. Havent tried it yet myself but i downloaded off of a bittorrent site a program and batchfile that claims to be able to make a small XP install on any sized stick 256mb or above.
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July 7th 08, 09:29 PM
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bootable usb stick question
In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote:
do you remember the name of the program? If you cant find it online, i can possibly send it to my ftp site to you. glenzabr@nospam; xmission.com (GMAN) wrote in message ... In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote: I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. Havent tried it yet myself but i downloaded off of a bittorrent site a program and batchfile that claims to be able to make a small XP install on any sized stick 256mb or above.
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July 8th 08, 03:59 AM
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bootable usb stick question
thanks, found a torrent and downloaded it.
glenzabr@nospam; xmission.com (GMAN) wrote in message ... In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote: do you remember the name of the program? If you cant find it online, i can possibly send it to my ftp site to you. glenzabr@nospam; xmission.com (GMAN) wrote in message ... In article , "~AlicGinnis~" wrote: I was looking around at various options for putting xp on a usb stick and came across the following dated Apr 6, 2007: "Editor's Review of HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool A flash drive is terrific for use as an emergency boot device. Use this tool to format the drive. (Careful -- everything on the flash drive will be deleted.) Then copy three system boot files from the root of your hard drive (usually c:\) -- boot.ini, ntldr, and ntdetect -- to the flash drive. Then set your BIOS to allow booting from the flash drive. --Steve Bass" Has anybody tried this? What's it boot to? DOS? Can you install xp on a stick? Thanks for any input. Havent tried it yet myself but i downloaded off of a bittorrent site a program and batchfile that claims to be able to make a small XP install on any sized stick 256mb or above.
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