booting windows from pen drive

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 19:50

well? is this possible?
If i bought a 4 gig pen drive, can I boot windows off it (this would be mighty handy for school

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wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 19:51

And illegal, but its possible

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 19:59

wizardmaxx said:
And illegal, but its possible

Why is it illegal?

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:20

Windows xp is to be installed on one pc, and one pc only as far as i know. Not to be carried around and booted as required.

Jokester · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:21

A pen drive is no different to a hard drive in that respect.

Jokester

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:34

anyway never mind, how's it done?

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:46

If i thinks illegal, not gonna tell you ????

Phil99 · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:50

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/index.html

Is that what you're after?

Trifid · 22 Sep 2006 at 20:51

It is possible to install it onto a removable hard drive in windows, so you should be able to do the same with a pen.

It is breach of the EULA though, so it will tell you, you have an conterfiet copy. Go for a linux tbh.

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:05

Possible on a pen but not without issues.

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:05

hmm, I cant have access to bios in school (obviously) is there a floppy bootup type thing?

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:20

whats it for anyways :confused:

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:24

wizardmaxx said:
whats it for anyways

Playing counter strike

killer_uk · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:27

Do some work instead!

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:43

Playin counter strike at school. Descent is the best we managed at work years ago, but 2222's to u. You may get xp to work, but any apps that follow after that have to be modified specifically for the pupose, so to get cs to work i think u may be the first

jamoor · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:55

wizardmaxx said:
Playin counter strike at school. Descent is the best we managed at work years ago, but 2222's to u. You may get xp to work, but any apps that follow after that have to be modified specifically for the pupose, so to get cs to work i think u may be the first

I have a modified version of CS to run off pen Drives, problem is for some reason the .exe doesnt work on their windows systems

wizardmaxx · 22 Sep 2006 at 21:59

http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/2004/10/utility_to_make_usb_flash_driv.html

Massive Attack · 22 Sep 2006 at 22:09

just copy the program files and run the .exe file, thats what we did, how does a 128 player lan game of unreal tournament sound