Installing Windows XP from a USB memory stick
I had the pleasure of upgrading the OS on our sales director’s new notebook today.
(It was shipped with XP Home, which is useless for business work.)
After discovering that the “USB CD-ROM drive” we apparently had in the store-room was infact firewire, and as such totally useless for my purposes, I had to find another way of getting XP Pro installed.
From experience, I know you can run many flavours of Linux straight from a USB memory stick, as long as the computer’s BIOS natively supports USB flash disks. But I’ve never seen or tried to do the same with Windows XP.
After a morning’s worth of trying different ideas and different memory sticks, I was finally greeted by the warm blue installation screen of the Windows XP operating system.
Below is a quick step guide of how I achieved it:
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