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| Thread ID: 89425 | 2008-04-30 06:45:00 | Can you make a USB flash drive bootable? | supersi (8401) | Press F1 |
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| 664246 | 2008-04-30 06:45:00 | I've bought an ultra-portable pc (no optical drive) which comes with Vista. I want to blow away Vista and install XP Pro. Needless to say I don't want to splurge on a portable optical drive. I have a 2gb usb key which could hold the XP install files. Can you do this? How? |
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| 664247 | 2008-04-30 06:46:00 | Yep - Link (www.eeetips.com) | jwil1 (65) | ||
| 664248 | 2008-04-30 06:47:00 | Change it to the bootdisk, in the BIOS, boot from it, and see what happens | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 664249 | 2008-04-30 12:07:00 | Here's a tutorial from toms hardware (www.tomshardware.com) (condensed XP for emergency using the free bartpe builder) and for a full USB - XP boot up visit this (www.ngine.de) (lot of full on editing though). Both require the XP disc for editing and re-editing... | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
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