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After clicking on “Yes” the USB disk will be formatted.Wait for few seconds and then
click on “Ok” and then chose “Close”.
Insert the XP installation CD in you CD/DVD ROM and in command prompt window
type 1 and press “Enter”..
A “Browse For Folder” window will appear and here select the CD/DVD drive and then
click OK.
Similarly for the choice field enter 2 and if there assigned the letter “T” for your
computer then change it otherwise do not alter it. After typing 2 in the choice option it
will prompt “Enter Available Virtual Drive Letter”.
Here type a letter that is not any drive letter of your computer.
Let us say S is not a drive letter in your computer. So put S then press “Enter”.
Now it will get back to the Command prompt and then type 3 where it prompts for the
choice. Then it will prompt “Please give Target USB-Drive Letter e.g type U”.
Now put your USB drive letter and press “Enter”. Here my USB drive label is “I” so I put
“I”.
Now input 4 and press Enter. It creates the new temporary image and makes a copy of
it to the USB Flash Drive .
Please wait for a few seconds..
Please wait………..
After completing Format it will prompt “Press any key to continue” and to continue hit
any key .
Please wait………..
It will again prompt “Press any key to continue” and obviously press any key to continue.
Now after this a message box will appear showing “Would you like USB-stick to be
preferred Boot Drive U……………….”
Click “Yes”.
The next one asking “Would you like to unmount the Virtual Drive ?”
Click “Yes”.
Now your USB you can Install Windows XP from the USB drive.
6. Insert your USB drive in the USB port and Reboot your computer. When starts the
computer enter in the BIOS Setup and set the first boot preference as USB Hard
Disk.Now Save and Exit from the BIOS Setup. Your computer will again restart and the
following screen will appear.
Now Chose The TXT Mode Setup.After completing the partition, formatting and copying
file the computer will restart again.
I think this will help you to install XP from USB flash disk/drive especially in those
computer without CD/DVD ROM.