Re: Tutorial how to boot from any USB

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Hi C. C. Wu and Gert,

I did the following: I copied in my XP SP2 the registry hive SYSTEM and
the USB drivers from SP1.
But the behavior is exactly the same. It started now as XP SP1 from USB,
but only with IDE harddisk present. So I think: It is not the fault of the
registry or the USB drivers. Perhaps the new NTLDR from SP2 asks, whether
there is an IDE harddisk or not.
This will mean, that the problem can only be overcome if you mask your USB
device as IDE or SCSI harddisk, and that can only be done with an extra
SCSI miniportdriver. I thought, that Microsoft has given us that gift, to
prevent booting from USB device. The reason is simple:
I was able to boot 2 different Computers(!) (each with XP SP1)(means ALL
different hardware) with ONE, the only and same, USB stick!
XP SP1 can be updatet as you wish. If you use not specialisied drivers,
this can be done as with Win98. And also XP Embedded SP2 is not real SP2.
It is a clone of SP1. With SP2 things are much harder as with SP1.

Nice to hear from you
Dietmar



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