Illustrated walk-through: Creating a bootable USB flash drive for Windows XP

Topics:: Network Administration,; Removable Storage,; Windows XP

Tags:: Bootable USB,; Bootable USB Flash Drive,; Flash Memory,; Greg Shultz,; Microsoft Windows,; Microsoft Windows XP,; Operating Systems,; Software,; USB Flash Drive

Source:: Greg Shultz

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Overview: A bootable flash drive can come in handy--but trying to create one might have you pulling out your hair. Windows expert Greg Shultz shares the method he followed, from configuring the BIOS to allow the USB port to act as a bootable device to creating a bootable image of Windows XP using the free PE Builder software (and a pair of Windows Server 2003 SP1 files) to formatting and copying the image onto a UFD.

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