Re: Booting Widows XP from USB Drive

It will fail - as the boot device will have moved from the IDE bus back to
the USB bus. Windows doesn't support booting from the USB bus. WinPE,
however, will work - in it's latest incarnation.

Bear in mind given the limited number of writes allowed on a flash drive,
Windows on a flash drive is a bit of device torture...

"Mark Dormer" <markd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> It is not supported by Microsoft, yet.
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/usb-boot.mspx
>
> Linux or DOS will boot
>
> Windows XP needs about 1.5 GB whether you have it on USB or IDE or
> whatever.
>
> I saw a claim that if you pulled the IDE hard disk out of the USB
> enclosure, put it in a a PC attached to the IDE bus and then installed
> windows, you could put it back into the USB enclosure and boot from it. I
> can't verify that. Might give it a try next weekend.
>
>
> Regards
> Mark Dormer
>
>
> "Abbas" <Abbas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:339AC446-0C6B-44D1-A20A-742D63392514@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Hi Folks,
>> Is it possible to install Windows (XP/2000/98) on usb Drive., in other
>> words
>> can I boot My windows Os from USB drive, (My Bios allows booting from
>> USB)...
>> Is it possible if yes plz give me detailed answer,,,
>>
>> also what is the min storage requirement for windows XP on USB..
>>
>> Waiting for your reply...
>>
>> Bye..
>
>


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