Installling XP on a dell mini via usb stick?

Balb0wa · 26 Jan 2010 at 16:33

How do i do it?

I had an acer, i seemed to do it ok, think it was a program that that made the usb bootable and put xp on, was quite easy.

Cant for the life of me find it now though.

Anyone help?

Thanks

Davyb · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:05

What i used to make my bootable USB Win 7

http://wintoflash.com/home/en/

Balb0wa · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:14

Davyb said:
What i used to make my bootable USB Win 7

http://wintoflash.com/home/en/

Yes ive found that one and tried it a few times, wont boot from my usb :-(

Davyb · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:16

Have you set it to boot in the bios from external usb /disk ?

Balb0wa · 26 Jan 2010 at 17:17

Davyb said:
Have you set it to boot in the bios from external usb /disk ?

yes. cant figure out why its not booting, i did it first time i tried with me acer 6 months ago. arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh :eek:

marmalade · 27 Jan 2010 at 19:51

Easy as falling off a log using the MS software for a usb stick:
http://download.cnet.com/Windows-7-USB-DVD-Download-Tool/3000-18513_4-10972600.html?tag=mncol;pop
or
http://images2.store.microsoft.com/prod/clustera/framework/w7udt/1.0/en-us/Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe