To put a long story short, this is exactly what i do now, thanks to the fantastic research of the people credited below. I was wondering about the same thing, as i did not want to put a Windows partition on my Linux.based work laptop, and thought it was a good idea to run Windows XP off a USB Hard drive that i just plug in when i need it, and boot from it. If your computer supportsīooting from such device, you can load a boot loader to the USB device Or this one from the microsoft newsgroups: USB-based mass storage devices cannot be the primary hard disk storage solution on a regular system. Q: Can a USB storage device be the primary (and only) means of storage? What is this about? To keep the introduction short, Microsoft denies that booting Windows off a USB drive works. The PC will boot from C: as it was some DVD and will actually install Windows on itself.įind tons of help with installation issues on our Windows XP on USB Forum try this: 1) download windows 7 installation ISO 2) unpack it on flash drive 3) boot from any installation CD/DVD (just to get close to command promt) 4) format C: 5) copy contents of flash drive to c: (xcopy f:*.* C:) 6) reboot. If you have no boot menu on your laptop and installation Windows 7 (or any other Windows) DVD was scratched. For example, depending on the version of Windows XP you are using, you may need a different hotfix to install the audio drivers. Remember, your results may very, so while these are the steps that worked for me, they may not work for you. After spending most of Saturday installing Windows XP on my HP Mini-Note I thought I’d share my results with you.
But if all you’ve got is a USB flash drive and another computer with a DVD burner, you can still install Windows XP (or many Linux distributions for that matter) on a disc drive-less ultraportable like the HP Mini-Note or the Asus Eee PC.
Installing Windows XP or any other operating system is easy if you have a USB optical disc drive.
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