Install xp to usb stick

Post by AlphaBeta » Sat Apr 12, pm. Post by Wheatley » Sat Apr 12, pm. Privacy Terms. The community for beta and abandonware collectors. Quick links. Yes it is, BA users. Preparing your USB drive Download the formatting tool. You can google it. When your done, go ahead and unzip it. Insert your USB. Run the formatting tool with Admin privileges. Put the zip somewhere else. Go back to the formatting tool, and tick the Create a DOS system disk box. Search for your DOS folder, and select. This sector takes time, so be patient.

Contact US. Insert the USB drive you intend to boot from. Instructions for doing so vary wildly from system to system, but generally entail the following: Reboot the system. Go to the section that contains your boot devices. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes. Step 4: Prepping the Hard Disk You need to make sure that your hard drive is partitioned and formatted properly.

To repartition and format This procedure will destroy any data on the hard drive : Click the icon on task bar to launch a command line Window. Enter DiskPart to run the built-in disk management utility. For example, try the following: select disk 0 select the first disk. Unplug USB drive during post stage. Change your BIOS settings back to boot from hard disk again as needed. You can now continue to finish setting up Windows XP. Copyright Power Software Ltd. All rights reserved. However, while following these steps meticulously and double-checking everything I keep running into the same problem.

This first pic is what I see after selecting the USB stick as the install location. Note that the USB stick IS detected and is able to be partitioned but this screenshot is as far as the install will go.

The stick does not have an ARC path it can reference, e. When the USB stick is selected the error screen above appears. Any ideas for how to work through this issue would be appreciated!

Thanks in advance for any useful advice. Posted 06 December - AM Even without modification the setup can show usb drives, But the error indicates that you did not do exactly what ngine. Posted 06 December - PM Even without modification the setup can show usb drives, But the error indicates that you did not do exactly what ngine.

So many people spend hours on it and some late Discouraged I did follow the instructions at ngine. I will double-check later to make sure but I've gone through the steps twice and checked them both times so am confident the setup is according to the instructions. I understand this solution will only work on the first computer it is installed to.

That is fine with me. Posted 07 December - AM Wow! This is very puzzling however let me think. Okay so all throughout this setup your still in text mode during XP setup. For starters, modern UEFI-equipped machines are not designed to support such an old OS, so chances are that it will not even install, or even be detected in the first place. If the motherboard in question happens to support a legacy BIOS mode, then it might work. Different version of Rufus explained later have better luck with the XP process than others.

We strongly suggest you skip to the dedicated part of this article that explains the problems with Windows XP and USB support. What about Windows Vista? But first…. Some solutions listed on this page require a Windows disc image. ISOs are available from a number of sources, but most people will acquire them after purchasing the OS online through Microsoft, or through some other related Microsoft service.

Only the ISOs directly supplied by Microsoft would have static hashes. How the image was captured as well will have an effect on how the final boot drive turns out, so stick to official sources where possible.

Other tools exist that accomplish the same thing, but these are the only ones we can personally recommend. However, we prefer Rufus because we find it loads a lot quicker, and feels a bit faster, too.

For a great many reasons, this is still our preferred method of creating USB boot drives. To load the Windows. NOTE: As the program will state, doing this will erase all data off of the flash drive — so backup first.

If you have any issues, be sure to check out our Common Problems section below. NOTE: This method will delete the entire flash drive, so be sure to back up personal data first.

Once selected, it needs to be wiped clean, have a partition created, and then be formatted. The entire command process is summed-up in this block:. At this point, the Windows setup DVD can be inserted into the drive, or the ISO mounted, and its files copied over to the root folder of the flash drive.