I used to use rEFIt when I had a triple-boot setup with Mac OS, Ubuntu, and Windows XP. Installing Lion seems to have disabled it, and I was afraid to enable it again in case it's not compatible. I'll do some research and see it if still works with Lion, despite not being updated recently. – iynque Jul 29 '12 at 21:25. My Mac Mini – not so much. No games, no work not much to do with it at all. I had a contingency plan. In the back of my mind, I knew that buying a Mac could be a mistake. I also knew that I could simply use Boot Camp to turn my Mac into a PC. I decided to install Windows on my Mac. Not surprisingly, my Mac didn’t go quietly. Despite the Mac's recent gains in market share, Windows is still the dominant operating system, especially in businesses. That means there may be times when you need to run the Microsoft OS. I just bought a new Mac Mini and am trying to install Windows XP (OEM Version) on it via Bootcamp and VMWare Fusion. Both programs tell me that they cannot find an install disc. I borrowed a copy of Win XP from a buddy of mine and the same thing happened. These are not original discs but copies made from the originals.

Windows XP is one of the popular OS Microsoft have ever introduced. In the era of Windows 10, the demand of Windows XP is too high. Though, Microsoft does not provide any support to XP users now, yet the usability of this Windows version can’t be compared with other versions. XP supports at very low ended PC and performs well. So, in different sectors and studios, there is still a demand of Windows XP. There are many PCs and notebooks which do not have any CD/DVD ROM support. So, you need to install Windows XP from USB flash drive to those devices. Apart from that, many PCs do not have a working CD ROM and those PCs also need a bootable USB drive to install a Windows XP operating system.

Later versions of Windows e.g. Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are very easy to handle at the time of creating a bootable pen drive as compared to Windows XP. You can use Microsoft’s “Windows USB/DVD Download Tool” to create a bootable USB stick for Windows 7 and later versions. But, this tool does not have a support for Windows XP. And when you want to create a bootable flash drive for Windows XP, you face a lot of difficulties and you need to follow few advanced steps because Windows XP does not have the feature ‘boot from USB‘ feature. Yet, you can install Windows XP from USB if you make it bootable properly.

In this article, I am showing you how to install windows XP on a PC using a USB flash drive. This procedure lets you install Windows XP OS on a netbook or on a PC that may not have a working CD/DVD drive. Yet, in order to prepare the bootable USB, you need a computer with a CD/DVD drive support and Windows XP installation disk.

When you insert the WIndows XP bootable installation disk into the CD/DVD ROM and restart your computer, you find a screen along with the following message: “Press any key to boot from CD…”. You get this message as the inserted CD or DVD is a bootable one. When you copy every file of the installer CD and paste it to a USB drive, and then restart your PC, the same thing does not happen to you. You need to make the USB drive bootable and as Microsoft’s USB/DVD tool does not support Windows XP, so, things become a little trickier for you. A free tool “Win to Flash” can be used to transfer bootable Windows XP installation files to a USB flash/pen drive.

There are another few market available apps to create a bootable USB (I also discuss about them in the later part), the latest version of “WinToFlash” is very appropriate for creating Windows XP USB. The free app also supports the creation of Windows 7,8.8.1 and Windows 10 bootable USB.

Now, let me discuss the best way to set up a bootable USB for Windows XP step by step.

Create Bootable USB and Install Windows XP from USB on a PC or Notebook

To install Windows XP operating system on a Windows PC, you have to follow the below steps.

1. Preparing a USB thumb drive to create a bootable USB flash drive.
2. Setting up the BIOS configuration of your PC to install Windows XP using the USB disk.
3. Install and run Windows XP from USB.
4. Handling with errors during Windows XP installation.

Step #1: Prepare Your USB Thumb Drive to Create Bootable USB Drive

Requirements:

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• USB 2.0 (Minimum 2gb drive space)
• Windows XP bootable installation CD/DVD or ISO
• WinToFlash (download link) free app

Now, follow the below guidelines so that you can easily create a USB flash drive for Windows XP installation.

1. First, download the ‘WinToFlash‘ from the above link. The portable edition of this tool does not require any installation.
2. Just open the app and select the ‘Advanced Mode‘. Under ‘Task‘ option, just select “Transfer Windows XP setup to USB drive“. See the screenshot below.
3. Click ‘Create‘ button to go to the next window.
4. Tick the “Use my ISO, RAR, ARJ, ZIP, 7Z, CAB, DMG image or archive” option.
5. Select Windows source path then.
6. Then, under USB drive, select ‘Refresh‘ button to get the list of all USB drives attached to your PC. Select the USB from the drop-down that you prefer to create bootable USB for Windows PC.
7. Tick the option which says – “Remove the read-only attributes from files“.
8. Under ‘process steps‘ tick the following options: format drive, collect information of text mode, collect information of GUI mode, create folders structure, copy files, install boot, assign a drive letter for set up, create answers file, add additions files for installation process, check the USB drive for errors, transfer all folders from original image.
9. Go to ‘boot loader‘ navigation menu and choose ‘GRUB’ boot loader from boot loader option.
10. Click ‘Run‘ button and wait until the bootable copy of Windows XP operating system is created on the USB flash drive.
11. After successful completion, safely remove the USB drive from the PC.

Now, you can install Windows XP directly from the newly prepared USB. The process of installing the OS to the new PC is very simple if you have the proper boot device configuration in your PC. If you have the proper boot configuration, then insert the USB to the PC where you want to install Windows XP. Otherwise, go to next step to know how to set up the BIOS configuration of your PC so that you can directly install Windows OS using bootable USB thumb drive.

Step #2: Configure BIOS Setting to Install Windows XP from External USB Pen Drive – Choose Boot Device Priority

After successfully creating a bootable USB drive, insert the USB to the PC in which you want to install the OS. Then restart your PC and keep pressing Del/F2/Esc key to enter Bios mode. The key may vary due to different motherboard configuration.

1. Enter in the BIOS setting page and navigate to the boot menu. Change the boot preference there. Select ‘Removable disk’ as first boot device.
2. Press F10 to save the set up and exit.
3. Restart the PC once again and when you get the option “Press any key to boot from USB/CD…“, just hit any key to install Windows XP to that PC from USB device.

Step #3: How to Install Windows XP from USB Device

Before installing Windows XP on your PC, you need to create new partition on your Windows hard drive or you need to edit the existing partition table. But, create, delete or edit of a hard drive partition using Windows XP is not simple like Windows 7 and later ones. While installing Windows XP from a USB or from a bootable CD, you need to create partition using DOS based set up. Later, the text based setup and GUI setup can be seen. So, you can get a complete guide of installing Windows XP here with an image representation.

Step #4: Bypass Windows Blue Screen of Death while Installing Windows XP Using Bootable USB

At the time of installing Windows XP, you may notice the error message with a blue screen. This may occur due to the following reasons:

• ACHI is enabled. Change SATA disc controller configuration and disable ACHI and try to re-install XP.
• Lack of disk controller or bus (miniport) driver.
• Low space in installation drive.

When an error occurs, try to trace the root cause for the error and know what type of error that is. Then, you can only find the proper solution before you install Windows XP from USB flash drive.

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Alternate Method to Create a Bootable USB Disk and Install Windows XP to PC/Computer/Laptop

As I have already mentioned that creating a Windows XP bootable USB is a bit difficult as compared to Windows vista, Windows 7 and the later versions of Windows. ‘Windows to Go’ is a brilliant feature that Microsoft includes in Windows 8 and later OS to create a portable USB version of the operating system. But, in case of Windows XP, you need to use a different technique. You can create a bootable Windows USB by just extracting the setup files to USB device and this method is not compatible with Windows XP. So, lets see how to prepare a USB drive and make it bootable with Windows XP. And this procedure requires a fully functional Windows XP operating system.

1. Download and install BartPE builder from the following URL: http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and install the OS to C:pebuilder. Start PE builder and browse the source Windows XP files and point it. Make sure that you set the output for “BartPE”. Set the media output as “Create output image”. You can set the output name as ‘pebuilder.iso’. The full path looks something like that – C:pebuilderpebuilder.iso . Press ‘Build’ to create ‘pebuilder.iso’ file. At first, make sure that the file is properly created.
2. Create a bootable USB drive for Windows XP: Insert the USB drive to proper port and launch ‘Power ISO’. From the menu, navigate to Tools >> create bootable USB drive. The dialogue with “Create bootable USB Drive” appears as a pop-up. Confirm the UAC to continue. From ‘create bootable USB’ dialogue window, click “…” button and open the “c:pebuilderpebuilder.iso” file. In “Destination USB drive”, choose the correct USB drive. Choose writing method as ‘USB-HDD’. Then, click the ‘Start’ button to start creating bootable flash drive for Windows XP.
3. After successfully completion of the process, copy setup file (from i386 folder) of Windows XP to USB drive. That’s all. The USB drive is ready now to install Windows XP from USB.
4. Launch Windows XP setup from a flash drive: Plug-in the USB device to your PC. Run the command: {usb drive letter}:i386winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource. ‘C:’ is the drive where you want to install your Windows XP. You can change it if you want to install the OS on a different partition. At the time of this installation process, if you see the notice which says: “Do you want to convert the installation volume to NTFS?”, just answer ‘No’. After that the setup program closes automatically.
5. Reboot your PC and unplug the USB this time. Change the BIOS setting and select boot device priority to “boot from hard disk”. Now, you are done and just wait until installation finishes.

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If you follow on screen instruction while installing Windows XP to any PC, it will be much easier for you to install and run the OS from USB. So far, I try to cover two best methods along with associated steps, problems and solutions to install Windows XP to your PC. If you find any better way to install Windows XP to a PC or to a notebook, don’t forget to drop comment in below comment section. However, if you wish to install the latest OS i.e. Windows 10 in your PC, read our guide on installing Windows 10 from bootable USB.

Step1: Creating Rescue USB Drive

First, we need create a rescue USB drive which can boot the computer. Please follow the steps,

1. Run PowerISO rescue media utility. You can download it here. On Windows Vista or above operating system, you may need confirm the UAC dialog to continue.

2. Insert the USB drive you intend to boot from.

3. The utility will allow you choose Windows PE architecture and version. It is suggested to select 32-bit architecture and Windows PE 3.11. Click 'Next' to continue.
   

4. Select USB drive for output device, and select the correct drive from the list. Click 'Next' to continue.
   

5. The utility will start creating rescue USB drive. It will check necessary component and automatically download missing component from the server.
   Please notice that all existing data on the USB drive will be destroyed during this step. The program will alert you before writing the USB drive. Click 'OK' to continue.
   

6. When it's done, copy the Windows XP setup files to the USB drive. Please note that you'll only need the i386 folder.

If no errors occurred in the above process, you should now be all set to setup Windows XP from USB drive!

Step 2: Configuring the BIOS

You should now reboot and go into the BIOS configuration to boot from USB. Instructions for doing so vary wildly from system to system, but generally entail the following:

1. Reboot the system.

2. While booting (before Windows starts loading), get into the BIOS configuration screen by hitting something like F1, F2, Delete or Escape. Hotkey instructions are generally provided on the screen.

3. Go to the section that contains your boot devices.

4. With your USB drive plugged in, the USB drive should be listed. If it isn’t, your system might not support booting from USB. Assuming that it is supported (as is the case with virtually all modern hardware), promote your USB drive to the primary boot device.

5. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes.

Please notice that you can seriously screw up your system by providing incorrect BIOS settings!

Step 3: Booting from rescue USB drive

Assuming that you properly configured your BIOS and your USB drive supports booting, your computer should now boot from the the rescue USB drive. Depending on the speed of your USB drive, this may take a while.

If it isn’t working, then double-check the following before making a scene:

• Is your BIOS properly configured for booting from the USB device? (Is the USB device listed and does it have top priority?)

• Have you correctly prepared the USB drive in step one? (Restart the procedure.)

• Does your USB drive properly support being booted from? (Try another one!)

Step 4: Prepping the Hard Disk

You need to make sure that your hard drive is partitioned and formatted properly. Especially if you've had Linux or some other operating system on it, you'll need to repartition and format it. The rescue drive contain file manager and command line utility. You can launch DiskPart for disk partitioning and formatting from the command utility.

If you are sure that your hard drive is set up properly (i.e. it has only run Windows, it contains a valid FAT or NTFS partition) then you can safe yourself the hassle and skip this step.

Window XP doesn't support GPT partition. If your hard drive is partitioned in GPT mode, you also need repartition and format the disc.

To repartition and format (This procedure will destroy any data on the hard drive):

1. Click the icon on task bar to launch a command line Window.

2. Enter DiskPart to run the built-in disk management utility.

3. Enter the commands needed to repartition and format your drive. For example, try the following:

select disk 0 (select the first disk. On your computer, disk 0 may not be the correct disk, you can use 'list disk' to find the correct disk.)

clean (purges the entire drive, essentially resetting it)

create partition primary (creates a single partition from the entire disk)

select partition1 (select the partition created)

format fs=ntfs quick (format the partition to NTFS system, and do a quickly format)

assign (assign the partition a drive letter)

exit (quits DiskPart).

Step 5: Launching Windows XP Setup from USB drive

With your drive all ready, you can now launch the Windows XP setup with a few custom parameters. Let's assume that the files are available at E:i386.

Plugging in a device now won’t work. Remember that all USB devices will need to be plugged in right from the start while using the rescue drive.

Run the following command:

1. Run E:i386winnt32.exe /syspart:C: /tempdrive:C: /makelocalsource. Replace C: with the drive you want to install Windows to.

2. Proceed with the installation. If asked to convert the installation volume to NTFS, answer No. The setup program incorrectly believes that your USB drive (if is formatted as FAT) needs conversion.

The setup program will then silently close, which might make you think that something went wrong. Don't worry though.

Step 6: Continue Windows XP Setup from Hard disk

1. Reboot your system.

2. Unplug USB drive during post stage.

3. Change your BIOS settings back to boot from hard disk again as needed.

4. You can now continue to finish setting up Windows XP.

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Note: The above guide works with Windows XP only. For Windows 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, or Windows Vista operating systems, please refer to another guide at http://www.poweriso.com/tutorials/how-to-make-win7-bootable-usb-drive.htm .