Booting from a USB Pen drive

K I gotta question, this girl asked me to fix this tiny computer that doesn't have a cd drive or a floppy drive, only SD card/USB drives. Anyway It's got xp on it, it needs to be reformatted and blah blah.

Anyway, say I have the ISO of Windows xp home, (Thats what was previously installed) how would I got about putting this onto a flash drive and booting it? Should I extract the files, just transfer the ISO, or is it impossible?

Thanks-

Spec

I think you need some cracked version. Use a free install of Ubuntu instead.

You could try some kind of jump drive, if that's possible. Not sure, I've never used anything but this big hunk-a-data.

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-5928902.html

It's old, but it should still work (though one or two points might need updating).

power on > Bios > set boot as usb/drive.

Thanks lenny, that's going to be my best bet I think.. so difficult.

And it's not quite that easy D3v, for what I'm trying to do.

Oh sorry I skimmed the thread. Lenny is right with that link. Just installing your OS onto a jumpdrive is the tricky part. You can use NERO and get the free version, it does it easily for you.

This keeps getting more and more complicated. >.>

http://www.ngine.de/article/id/8/

The only problem with these articles is that I dont want to install XP to the USB drive, I want to install XP FROM the USB drive, as if it was the XP CD.

BLEH

Oh! OK then.

I've not done it for a while, but I think all that needs to be done is to extract the files from the XP ISO onto the USB and set the USB as the bootable device.

Oh! OK then. I've not done it for a while, but I think all that needs to be done is to extract the files from the XP ISO onto the USB and set the USB as the bootable device.

Exactly right.