Booting WinXP Pro from Flash/Thumb Drive

Robert-Finberg

I have put XP Pro embedded onto a flash drive and booted from the IDE cable, but I put the same onto a 2Gig thumbdrive and get a drive error, the BIOs does not want to recognize USBport with a bootable version of Windows...has anyone had success with this...please email me directly,
Bob Finberg

campfinwood@starband.net

Leonardo

please email me directly

If anyone is knowledgeable and wishes to email Mr. Finberg "directly", please go ahead; but please post here as well, as I'm sure many members here find this if great interest!

Robert-Finberg

Hi Leonardo,
thanks for your post,
Bob Finberg

Gobbles

have you verified that your bios supports usb boot devices. Most current bios have this option. Make sure its in enabled. Also make sure that you have that device set as the primary boot device.

Gobbles

On another note some systems use hdd 0 as the boot device however thats usually with system that have a built in onboard flash card reader.

Robert-Finberg

Ok...thanks I appreciate your help...
I may need a newer different MB and BIOS.
Bob

joeyg2391

i have a 1 gig flash drive. I have a 1.4 Gig bootable XP PRO DVD. What i did was copy all the DVD files into the flash drive. i want to be able to boot of the USB device. I have an Nvidia nForce3 chipset K8N Neo2 Platinum. what settings do i change on the flash drive and bios. Thanks

Tex

joeyg2391 wrote:

i have a 1 gig flash drive. I have a 1.4 Gig bootable XP PRO DVD. What i did was copy all the DVD files into the flash drive. i want to be able to boot of the USB device. I have an Nvidia nForce3 chipset K8N Neo2 Platinum. what settings do i change on the flash drive and bios. Thanks

You can't just "copy" files onto another device and still have it "bootable"

Tex