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Windows Forum / Windows XP / Setup and Deployment / January 2007Loading XP from USB Flash Drive
Hello, I'm trying to install XP from a USB Flash Drive. I am a system builder and we load XP all the time from CDs. I think it would be much faster from a flash drive. Does Microsoft offer anything like this for system builders? Is it even possible? I tried for a few hours to get it to work including downloading the 6 floppy disks and trying to use them to get the drive to boot into Windows Setup. I have also tried using the boot sectors/code from the XP CD on the flash drive using BART PE tools. I can not get it to work. I would imagine because the boot sectors for a CD to boot into setup are different then that of a flash device. Can anyone help me with this? I don't understand why it has not been done yet. It seems logical to me and faster to use a flash device now that PCs can boot from them. Please Help! Please register and visit the OEM System Builders web site: http://www.microsoft.com/oem/default.mspx which offers newsgroups specific for OEM installation questions.  SignatureCarey Frisch Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello, I'm trying to install XP from a USB Flash Drive. I am a system builder and we load XP all the time from CDs. I think it would be much faster from a flash drive. Does Microsoft offer anything like this for system builders? Is it even possible? I tried for a few hours to get it to work including downloading the 6 floppy disks and trying to use them to get the drive to boot into Windows Setup. I have also tried using the boot sectors/code from the XP CD on the flash drive using BART PE tools. I can not get it to work. I would imagine because the boot sectors for a CD to boot into setup are different then that of a flash device. Can anyone help me with this? I don't understand why it has not been done yet. It seems logical to me and faster to use a flash device now that PCs can boot from them. Please Help! Try using Synergix imageIT http://www.synergix.com. You can make a DOS bootable USB drive (contact support@synergix.com, if you need help) and restore Windows 2000/ XP /Vista / 2003 images from the USB device > Please register and visit the OEM System Builders web site: > http://www.microsoft.com/oem/default.mspx [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > has not been done yet. It seems logical to me and faster to use a > flash device now that PCs can boot from them. Please Help! >Please register and visit the OEM System Builders web site: http://www.microsoft.com/oem/default.mspx >which offers newsgroups specific for OEM installation questions. Can you just tell me if it is even possible before I spend more time with this issue? |
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