Is there a way I can install Windows XP from a USB pen drive?

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I'm pretty familiar with nlite and slipstreaming drivers into XP, but I'm trying to install windows on a machine with no optical drive, so I was wondering if it's possible to use a USB stick?

If so, how? Can nlite do it automatically and make the USB stick bootable in the same way it produces bootable ISO files?
 
which method did you use?

xp is a ball ache compared to vista for installing from usb


with vista, you just format your usb pen as fat32, set it as active and copy your vista dvd to it
 
Theres a really good video giude over on youtube. It shows it being installed on an acer one netbook but thw procedure would be the same on any machine id imagine.
 
Xp is a piece of cake to install from USB, as is Vista.

For XP, use multiboot:
http://www.msfn.org/board/install-XP-USB-t111406.html

For Vista, use xcopy:
http://www.techmixer.com/install-windows-vista-from-bootable-usb-flash-memory-drive/

Both options take around 3 minutes to do at the most. Option one (multiboot) will let you choose whether to install XP/Vista/Linux from the same pen drive.

Helmut, I'm not sure how you found it to be so difficult.

*edit*
In the xcopy guide, they format the stick to fat32.. I formatted to ntfs, and it worked equally well.
I reinstalled Vista on my gf's machine the other night, and it took ~4 minutes :)
 
^^uvmain

that hasn't been around long on msfn

before that, it was hard to find one resource with all the info in one place :)


also, you don't need to use xcopy..
just a normal copy works fine :)
 
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