[OT?] How to create a Live USB Windows XP

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-----Original Message-----
From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Mon, Sep 27, 2010 11:12 am
Subject: Re: [OT?] How to create a Live USB Windows XP


On 27 September 2010 16:47, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> Hi all,
> I know it's kinda off-topic, so please do not flame right away!
> This is the scenario:
> I have an Asus EeePC 1000HE Netbook running Ubuntu Lucid UNE. This Netbook
> is capable of booting from the internal SD card reader. I have a brand new
> 2GB SD I'd like to use as bootable Live WinXP - for those remote cases I
> need Windows, i.e.: Upgrading my Nokia N97 and Nokia E71 firmwares using
> the proprietary Nokia Software Update (NSU). I would like to avoid the
> re-partitioning of the internal HDD and dual booting to Windows....
> I was Googling for a suitable HOWTO, but all I could find was guides for
> doing this under Windows XP / Vista / 7. I don't have access to those -that
> is all the point of the exercise...
> Can someone direct me to a resource that explains how to do it under
> Ubuntu?
> I have the WinXP ISO, the SD card and Ubuntu Lucid on my Netbook and Desktop
> computers.
> Thanks!

You can't readily run XP from removable media. The LiveCD concept
doesn't really exist under Windows. You can create a bootable CD or
DVD using a tool such as BartPE (Google it) but the resultant
environment is very limited & I've never found it of much use.


 WindowsXP can be ran from a USB drive and so can Windows Vista, I have both loaded and running on two USB drives which I keep in my toolkit. I will find the Article I wrote on it specifying the procedure on how to do it...  It'll be tonight before I can get to it.  I found having WindowsXP on a USB to be handy.

 

Clint

 
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