Keywords: How to install Windows XP using a pen drive. How to install Windows 7 using a pen drive, How to make boot-able pen-drive There are many times when my friends asked help regarding How to install Windows XP using a pen drive or How to install Windows 7 using a pen drive. Making a bootable pen drive for Windows XP / Windows 7 is not a difficult task. I’ll show here How to make boot-able pen drive using Before you start just consider your situation, what you have and what will you require: Case:I You have.
CD/DVD ROM working (on other system). a pen drive (1 GB for Windows XP & 4 GB for Windows 7). Windows XP /Windows 7 installation CD/DVD Then you don’t require anything else, just download win2flash and install it.
Posts about How to install Windows XP using a pen drive written by Sachin Y.P. For example in my case Drive E contains Windows XP ISO image mounted. Whereas F drive is my usb. Then Click Next button and your USB pen drive will be formatted. This tool will make usb bootable and will install windows XP on usb drive. Once the process is 100% then you can reboot computer and boot XP from USB. Insert Windows Xp installation disk into CD-ROM and copy all files from CD to USB drive. Now pen drive should look like this Now you have a xp bootable pen drive. Now we have XP bootable pen drive. We would install XP from this pen drive. Boot system from this pen drive. If system does not boot from pen drive check first bootable media setting in BIOS.
Case:II You have. a pen drive (1 GB for Windows XP & 4 GB for Windows 7). Windows XP / Windows 7 installation CD/DVD. Windows XP/ Windows 7 ISO image But you don’t have any working CD/DVD ROM. 🙂 Every problem has a solution. 😉 You just need to install ISO image reader like.
Now for both Case:I & Case:II, follow these steps:. Install win2flash.
Install magicISO(For Case:II only). Insert your pen-drive in USB port. Start win2flash, you will see setup like this:5. Click on Green icon. You will see next message screen like this. (Please don’t be angry for step by step screen-shots, some users need this 🙂 )6. Click ‘Next’ and next screen will be like this:Here you give the path of your pen-drive and CD/DVD disk.
For Case-II, you have to mount your ISO image first. Steps are in the end of this tutorial. When you’ll mount your ISO image you’ll have to give your virtual CD/DVD-ROM’s drive letter.7. After giving the correct drive letter, click ‘Next’.You will see next message screen like this:8.
Accept the license and click continue. Next screen will be:9. Click continue, but make sure you have already took backup of your pen-drive’s dataas it’s going to format. It will start the process to make you pen-drive boot-able. This process may take time from 20 minutes to 40 minutes, so please have patience.
After completion of this process you will get a screen like this: 11. If you are seeing this, congrats!!!
🙂 You have a boot-able pen-drive with Windows XP/ Windows -7 setup. Safely remove the pen drive and restart your system. After restart go to bios setup and boot your system from usb pen-drive.( See in your bios settings boot options) 13.
When it boots from pen drive, you will get a boot menu having options for text mode (1st time), GUI mode (2nd Time) and debug mode. When you boot from your pen drive first time you have to choose 1st option, it will start Windows installation process as you could see using your CD/DVD ROM. When your system restart, then you get same menu again. Now choose second option (GUI).
It will continue the installation process. Once you see the Windows desktop first time, then you can remove the pen-drive. Please do not remove your pen-drive until you see your Windows desktop. If you get any error, please try to follow this tutorial step by step. 🙂 Steps for mount ISO image using MagicISO: Assuming you have installed magiciso from given link: 1.
Right click on magiciso icon on taskbar tray on your windows system. Click on uppermost option, you will see a drive letter showing No Media, expand it and choose Mount. Then give path of your ISO image in upcoming message screen. After mounting, see if you could see a screen something like this: It can vary with system to system, but you should see a virtual CD/DVD drive showing your ISO. The process How to install Windows XP using a pen drive or How to install Windows 7 using a pen drive is not difficult but it takes time to understand it.
So don’t be panic, just follow all the steps carefully and you will learn H ow to make boot-able pen-drivefor Windows XP and Windows 7. 🙂 Update (Windows Vista / Windows 7 Users): If you are having any difficulty following steps given here, please check following link: Please leave a comment if you find it useful and share and like it as much as you can.
How to Setup Windows XP from USB drive? You are here: How to setup Windows XP from USB drive? Step1: Create Rescue USB Drive First, we need create a rescue USB drive which can boot the computer. Please follow the steps,. Run PowerISO rescue media utility. You can download it. On Windows Vista or above operating system, you may need confirm the UAC dialog to continue.
Insert the USB drive you intend to boot from. The utility will allow you choose Windows PE architecture and version. It is suggested to select 32-bit architecture and Windows PE 3.11. Click 'Next' to continue. Select USB drive for output device, and select the correct drive from the list.
Click 'Next' to continue. The utility will start creating rescue USB drive. It will check necessary component and automatically download missing component from the server. Please notice that all existing data on the USB drive will be destroyed during this step. The program will alert you before writing the USB drive. Click 'OK' to continue. When it's done, copy the Windows XP setup files to the USB drive.
Please note that you'll only need the i386 folder. If no errors occurred in the above process, you should now be all set to setup Windows XP from USB drive! Step 2: Configuring the BIOS You should now reboot and go into the BIOS configuration to boot from USB.
Instructions for doing so wildly from system to system, but generally entail the following:. Reboot the system. While booting (before Windows starts loading), get into the BIOS configuration screen by hitting something like F1, F2, Delete or Escape. Hotkey instructions are generally provided on the screen.
Go to the section that contains your boot devices. With your USB drive plugged in, the USB drive should be listed. If it isn’t, your system might not support booting from USB. Assuming that it is supported (as is the case with virtually all modern hardware), promote your USB drive to the primary boot device. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes.
Please notice that you can seriously screw up your system by providing incorrect BIOS settings! Step 3: Booting from rescue USB drive Assuming that you properly configured your BIOS and your USB drive supports booting, your computer should now boot from the the rescue USB drive. Depending on the speed of your USB drive, this may take a while. If it isn’t working, then double-check the following before making a scene:. Is your BIOS properly configured for booting from the USB device? (Is the USB device listed and does it have top priority?). Have you correctly prepared the USB drive in step one?
(Restart the procedure.). Does your USB drive properly support being booted from? (Try another one!) Step 4: Prepping the Hard Disk You need to make sure that your hard drive is partitioned and formatted properly. Especially if you've had Linux or some other operating system on it, you'll need to repartition and format it.
The rescue drive contain file manager and command line utility. You can launch DiskPart for disk partitioning and formatting from the command utility. If you are sure that your hard drive is set up properly (i.e. It has only run Windows, it contains a valid FAT or NTFS partition) then you can safe yourself the hassle and skip this step. To repartition and format (This procedure will destroy any data on the hard drive):. Click the icon on task bar to launch a command line Window.
Enter DiskPart to run the built-in disk management utility. Enter the commands needed to repartition and format your drive. For example, try the following: select disk 0 (select the first disk. On your computer, disk 0 may not be the correct disk, you can use 'list disk' to find the correct disk.) clean (purges the entire drive, essentially resetting it) create partition primary (creates a single partition from the entire disk) select partition1 (select the partition created) format fs=ntfs quick (format the partition to NTFS system, and do a quickly format) assign (assign the partition a drive letter) exit (quits DiskPart).
Step 5: Launching Windows XP Setup from USB drive With your drive all ready, you can now launch the Windows XP setup with a few custom parameters. Let's assume that the files are available at E: i386. Plugging in a device now won’t work. Remember that all USB devices will need to be plugged in right from the start while using the rescue drive. Run the following command:. Run E: i386 winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource. Replace C: with the drive you want to install Windows to.
Proceed with the installation. If asked to convert the installation volume to NTFS, answer No.
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The setup program incorrectly believes that your USB drive (if is formatted as FAT) needs conversion. The setup program will then silently close, which might make you think that something went wrong. Don't worry though.
Step 6: Continue Windows XP Setup from Hard disk. Reboot your system.
Unplug USB drive during post stage. Change your BIOS settings back to boot from hard disk again as needed. You can now continue to finish setting up Windows XP. Note: The above guide works with Windows XP only. For Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, or Windows Vista operating systems, please refer to another guide. Copyright 2004-2018 Power Software Ltd. All rights reserved.