Installing XP onto Netbook from SD card?

Gimpymoo · 16 Oct 2009 at 11:18

Im googling this as I type, but wondered if anyone had any tips?

Aod · 16 Oct 2009 at 11:41

SD card is unlikely to work - they usually need drivers to run. USB flash drives don't because most modern BIOS's have the drivers built in.

Gimpymoo · 18 Oct 2009 at 03:17

So no way to do this then?

Raumarik · 18 Oct 2009 at 08:35

Not that I know of, most BIOSes won't boot from SDcard and even if you boot off CD/DVD it unlikely you could get any USB drives to work with the SD card reader - I don't know of any that would.

USB pen drive is another matter, plenty of ways of doing it from one of them.

lcg · 18 Oct 2009 at 11:08

I would get a SanDisk MicroMate, a USB SD card reader. Mine came with my 8GB SD card last year. I've installed Windows XP and Windows 7 from the SD card using it. It's just like using a standard USB flash drive. I last used it last week; I installed Windows 7 on a five-year old laptop which doesn't have a CD drive, so it should boot on pretty much any modern machine.

I used WinSetupFromUSB to make the SD card bootable, and to copy across the Windows XP setup files from the CD.

MikeHunt79 · 18 Oct 2009 at 11:16

Gimpymoo said:
Im googling this as I type, but wondered if anyone had any tips?

don't bother, you can't do it, unless you use an external card reader...

nutsnut · 18 Oct 2009 at 11:42

You can boot Asus from SD card no problems, I've done it to install varios distros and XP. It tells you ho to do it via the manual plus they are plenty of guides over the net.

Memphis · 18 Oct 2009 at 12:55

It entirely depends on the particular machine's ability to boot from external sources.