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

[Kai Presler-Marshall]

That would be great, I'm also interested in doing something similar (but for
a different purpose)

On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 1:35 PM, <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:

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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [OT?] How to create a Live USB Windows XP
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>  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!
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> 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.
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>  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.
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>  Clint
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