Install Windows XP without cd
Do you want to install Windows XP without CDROM drive? Do you have a laptop without a CD player and do not know how to install Windows? Do you want to install Windows but do not want to spend money to buy a USB external CD player? Here's the solution: Install Windows XP from a pen drive.
Install the OS from a thumb drive you can. The only requirement is that your motherboard must be able to boot from a USB device. Usually you have to activate the BIOS for USB LEGACY SUPPORT. Once established this feature we can continue with this guide to points:
1 - Go into the possession of another PC where you downloaded the file eeepc-PPACK-winxp.zip that found at the bottom of the page and unzip to a folder. Within this file there are any programs that are needed for this procedure.
2 - Inside the folder you created or found by another name USB_prep8 will you bring in and double click on the file usb_prep8.cmd and press any key to continue.
3 - Click Start to start formatting. When this is complete, open a command shell with start -> run -> cmd without closing the other windows.
4 - In the CMD shell to the directory where the command bootsect.exe, for example if you extracted to c by typing: cd c: \ Pre-packed \ bootsect \, and type the following command: bootsect.exe / nt52 G: ("G" is the letter that windows recognizes the pen drive).
This step is to copy the boot process of windows xp in the memory stick to make him look like the PC that it is an installation CD itself. Remember I told you not to close the other windows? Well recativi in step 2 window and type these commands in sequence:
- Press 1 and indicate where our CD of Windows XP
- Press 2 and point out a letter to a virtual drive that is not currently in use in your PC (eg. Z ")
- Press 3 and indicate the letter of our pen
- Press 4 to start with the process
If you answer "Y" for yes to every question that asks you wait for the program and confident. After all you will get a pen drive which, when inserted into a PC that can run it from USB from the installation of XP as if you had a CD.
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