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Bootable XP USB?
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:35:50 -0500, Paul wrote:
If your CD drive works, then just make a copy of the CD ? Images of CDs can be stored as ISO9660 on a hard drive. I keep an ISO9660 image of my WinXP CD for example. If I needed to burn another copy, it would be a snap. Or, you could use something like Imgburn (a free burning program), to make a copy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imgburn That's what I'll do then. Certainly hard drive copies should remain okay a lot longer than CD (or DVD for that matter). The WinXP CD was not intended to install from a USB key. But people more skilled than I, can probably do it. Microsoft also makes WAIK, which is used by IT people, for custom installation. So most of the methods that support operation from a USB key, require a rocket scientist. I eventually half-managed to do it, but only after days of work. I did try a Russian program, that claimed to copy the WinXP CD to a USB key. It (the USB key) wouldn't boot :-) Too funny. And since I have had things on the USB key that do boot, I've had better luck than with that program. There is more than one program of that nature, but my intention wasn't to exhaustively test those programs, one after another. The Russian program also "calls home", an activity I'm not particularly fond of. Virtually anything could be in those packets, such as a WinXP license key. By the time you figure it out, it could be too late. (This is why, for a good percentage of my testing, the Ethernet cable was unplugged.) You can never be too careful, even when a program is virus scanned. Such a scan doesn't detect bad program design (such as calling home). Good thinking on your part. ApeMan Paul |
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