Installing Windows XP on a flash drive allows you to create media that will be used as a system for emergency needs. For example, if your OS crashed, you can always connect USB to save all the files you need from your hard drive. Also, a flash drive can be used as a carrier of a backup system, which can always be with you.
It is necessary
- - USB flash drive with a capacity of more than 2GB;
- - Hitachi Microdrive driver;
- - Acronis Disc Director;
- - FlashbootXP.rar
Instructions
Step 1
Download the Hitachi Microdrive hard drive driver from the Internet and unpack it to any temporary directory. Open the cfadisk.inf file with Notepad and find the [cfadisk_device] section.
Step 2
Connect the flash drive and go to Device Manager (right-click on "My Computer" - "Management" - "Device Manager" - "Disk Devices"). Find your drive in the list, go to its properties (right-click - "Properties"), click on the "Details" tab. Copy (Ctrl + C) the contents of the "Instance Code" item.
Step 3
In the "[cfadisk + device]" section, replace the value of the last line after the comma with the instance code you copied (paste Ctrl + V). Remove the part of the line after the backslash "". For example, if the line looked like “USBSTOR / DISK & VEN…. REV_1.00 / 7 & 211312312 & 0”, then everything that begins after “REV_1.00” must be erased. Remember to save your changes to the file.
Step 4
In the properties of the drive, go to the "Driver" - "Update" - "Install from a list or specific location" - "Do not search" - "Install from disk" tab and select the modified cfadisk.inf. Make a safe removal of the disk (right-click in the "Device Manager" - "Safely Remove") and reconnect the flash drive.
Step 5
Download the Acronis disk director program and format the USB-Flash to FAT32 format, and also make the main partition of the flash drive active using the corresponding menu item.
Step 6
Turn off your computer. Disable the hard disks in use in the BIOS settings, and specify your CD-ROM in the "First Boot Device" parameter. Insert the disc with the burned Windows XP into the drive and connect the flash drive. In the system installation menu, select the installation on a flash disk without changing the FS. After the computer restarts, set the BIOS to boot from the hard drive, but do not disconnect your USB device.
Step 7
Download the FlashBootXP archive from the Internet and unpack its contents. Start Registry Editor ("C: / Windows / System32 / Regedit.exe"). Select the "HKEY_LOCAL MACHINE" branch and go to the "File" - "Load Hive" menu at the top of the window. Specify the path to the file "Your_Flash: / Windows / System32 / Config " and open the file "system". In the section selection window, write the value "123" and right-click on the newly created section.
Step 8
Select "Permissions" - "Administrators". In the window that opens, select the "Full access" checkbox and click "Apply". Go to "Advanced" - "Administrators" and select "Overwrite permissions for all children …". Click OK and exit the menu.
Step 9
Navigate to the USBBOOT.reg file and right-click on it. Select the "Merge" menu and confirm the changes that will be made to the registry.
Step 10
Go back to regedit.exe. Select "123" and click "File" - "Unload Hive". Close the editor and copy the archive files usb, usbport and usbstor to the folder of your flash drive "Windows / Inf".
Step 11
Shut down the computer, unplug the hard drive again. Select USB-Flash as First Boot Device and wait for the installation procedure to complete.
