Booting from usb

RoleyBirkin · 2 Sep 2008 at 21:51

How's this done on XP

There's no option when I go into the F2 options during regular booting.

Theguy · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:56

what are you trying to boot from? usb cd drive for example?

RoleyBirkin · 2 Sep 2008 at 23:07

USB stick.

Im just not seeing how...

Theguy · 2 Sep 2008 at 23:10

booting from usb stick is quite tricky. you need special boot files and a program liked HPs usb boot utility to do it iam afread.

RoleyBirkin · 2 Sep 2008 at 23:15

Stuff that. I'll do it from disc instead! Ta.

Theguy · 2 Sep 2008 at 23:21

You can do it, its just an arse tring to google all the files you need.

bledd · 3 Sep 2008 at 10:20

installing xp from usbstick is basically a no-go

it can be done, but there's so many things to do, and variables that you might as well just use a dvd, it's not 'that' much slower

installing vista from usb is really easy, you just format the drive in a CMD window and you're done

cmd.exe
diskpart
list disk

select disk x
clean
create partition primary
select partition 1
active
format fs=fat32
assign
exit

copy vista install files to usb stick, then reboot and select boot from usb