6 Wouldn't it be great if you could autoboot programs from your Pendrive? PeToUSB is a simple Windows application for formatting and making bootable USB Flash Memory Drives and USB HardDisks. Normally, it's not possible to do this on a Pendrive but PeToUSB works by creating a FAT16 partition so that the device auto-executes in Windows. However, you'll have to make sure that your system's BIOS supports this function - most modern PC's do but there are some that will not. One of the advantages this presents is when you've had a major hard drive error or have had problems booting from Windows. It's also useful if you need to run a virus scan without starting Windows in the case of really serious problems.
A simple, powerful program that's only let down by the fact that it won't work with all BIOS. Author's review.
March 27th, 2009 Posted in, by dennis Installing Windows XP from a USB drive(pen Drive) has been an issue with less number of ideal solutions available. Here we have given a solution which is easy to follow and which works.
The reason why should anybody want to install Windows from a USB drive is that using a bootable CD is always been a problem. Sometimes our CD ROM may not work.
Some mini laptops like Asus Eee PC may not have CD ROMs where installation is possible only through USB or an external Drive. One of the main reason why we were interested in this topic is that in the current trend Using a CD is considered primitive.
A USB drive is much more easy and more portable. Hence why should anybody not want to carry their Installation files in a bootable USB drive and why would anybody rely on a CD which is easily damageable by rough handling. The method given here is tested successfully for Windows XP 32 bit installation with SP2 and SP3. It may work with other versions of Windows like Vista and Windows 7 but we have not tested it yet. Update: Refer to this guide on Requirements: 1. A USB Drive of minimum 2GB 2. Windows XP installation CD (Back Up will also do) The method consists of two parts and one file download (around 499KB).
We will have touse tools like PeToUSB to format your pen drive and copy the Windows XP installation files to the USB Disk using usbprep8.cmd. Then we will boot up from the USB Drive and prepare for installation. After the process is completed your XP install is ready for the process. Now we will start the process: Step 1: Download the File from the link given below: Size: 499KB Name: usbbootprepxp.zip Password: techrena.net Step 2: Extract the usbbootprepxp.zip file in your C drive.
It will give you two folders named bootsect and usbprep8. Plug in your USB drive to your computer and put the Windows XP CD also. Step 3: Go to the usb-prep8 folder and double click usbprep8.cmd file. Press any key to continue. Step 4: Now it will open PeToUSB. Format your USB drive using it.
Select the options as in the image below. Note that after formatting do not close the PeToUSB or the cmd console. Step 5: Now open a new cmd console manually (press Start+L, type cmd and enter).
And type the following command in the commands prompt. Note that you should type your own USB drive letter instead of ‘ h’. Command: Action: 1 cd Enter 2 cd bootsect Enter 3 bootsect.exe /nt52 h: Enter I had copied the folder in D drive. So the image will be somewhat different with the actual display of your console. Collectionneur de recettes keygen crack. Don’t worry copy the folder in your C drive only.
Now close this cmd console but not the other one. Close PeToUSB. Now the usbprep8.cmd console will continue. Select 1 to set the source location.
Select the CD ROM containing the XP CD. Step 7: If you have a drive called T in your computer then check option 2 to change it to any letter which is not present.
Otherwise no need to change. Select 3 to set the destination drive.
Enter your USB Drive letter as shown below: Step 8: Now select choice 4 as we don’t have any Tempimage previously. It may ask you to delete the existing tempimage. Step 9: It will ask you to format the T drive. Enter y and it will format your temp drive.
Press any key to continue. Now it will start copying the XP files to the tempdrive. Step 10: After the completion of the file copy process Press any key to continue. Now it will ask you to copy the files to your USB drive or not. Step 11: During the copy process it will ask whether to change migrate.inf file or not. Is you are using a USB stick then Select Yes.
If you are using a USB hard drive then Select No. Step 12: After the successful completion of copying the files to your USB drive it will ask whether to unmount the Virtual temp drive or not.
As you do not need it Select Yes. Step 13: After the successful completion of the process close the cmd console. Now your pen drive is ready for the installation process.
Step 14: Plug in the USB drive to the computer you want to install XP. While start up make sure that you set the first boot choice as your USB drive. To do this you have to enter to the bios and change the boot order to USB Disk as the first choice. For entering to BIOS press the BIOS setup key while start up. This key is usually seen in the screen in the boot screen. For most of the systems it is DEL key.
For HP and Compaq it is F10 etc. Go to the boot configuration tab and change the boot order. Step 15: While booting up from the USB it will ask you to choose between GUI and TXT mode of setup. Select TXT mode for now. Step 16: Follow the onscreen instructions. It is same as the usual setup process. In the partition selection screen do not select you USB drive for install.
And if you are installing in a new RAW hard disk then your USB Drive will be the C drive. Uconnect update download ram 1500. Now first create a new partition and format your HDD using the setup.
And again restart the process from step 15 by Quitting the current Install(Press F3). Then you should get your HDD partition as C drive.
Continue your installation. Step 17: Now it will copy a set of files to the hard disk. It usually takes lesser time than a CD ROM installation. After the process it will ask for reboot. Press Enter to reboot immediately.
Step 18: Now while start up select the GUI mode of setup to continue setup. Now you can continue your usual setup process. Follow the onscreen instructions carefully. After the setup process which usually takes 39 minutes, it will restart. Now boot from your Hard drive not the USB drive.
Again use BIOS settings to make this happen. Congratulations you have successfully installed Windows XP via a USB Drive. Important: 1.
You can copy the contents of your pen drive if you want for future use. To use in future just format your USB drive with FAT, run the commands given in S tep 5 and simply copy paste the files you had saved earlier. No need to run the whole process again. While unmounting the Virtual Temp Drive T, it may fail and ask you to try again. And when it asks you to Force unmount select yes. This Method is for informational purpose only and should not be used for Software Piracy and illegal practices. We are not responsible for any loss or damage resulting from this information.
This method will not work if your motherboard or your BIOS does not support USB booting. This method is an implementation of the guide given in. And PeToUSB is a property of Featured Post. Thanks a lot.this post really helped me out of trouble from my friends bad dvd rom. I got through all the steps but the problem for the non recognition of sata drive still persisted and displaying only the drive of my pen drive later the post by dennis (shown below.) really helped me out.thanks a lot again. Says: @Kunal The problem you are facing is due to Non SATA support in your XP installation.
You need to disable your native sata support or slipstream the sata drivers to your XP CD. Otherwise it will not detect your SATA HDD for the installation of XP. Check the posts below:. Says.
I hope not be abusing; but you are very knowledgeable on Flash Drives, so I submit this question to you. I have a Micro Vault 2GB flashdisk. I have a Text File notepad where I keep daily notes; it grew up to 1.7 MB; trying to always carry it with me, I save it to this Micro Vault, sometimes from Word, or from Notepad or copying it via Explorer, always as a.TXT file.
Well, when I try to read it back, through any application of those mentioned or even others, I just get little squares throughout the 1.7MB file. Could you help me to understand (and overcome) this problem? Thank you for your attention. I did everything to the tee, but still no joy when I load it ony dell mini 910 I get “File $winnt$.BT biosinfo.inf could not be loaded the error code is 14 setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit” is there anyone with some suggestions plz help. I’m using a kingston g2 4gb usb pen drive but i followed every step to the letter and still no joy.
Could it be that it’s looking to load xp from a pata drive? Thanks for the info though I’ved tried just about everything. Imho it cannot be done. gotcha99 Says. The error also mentioned the file binifix4.cmd under SourceDisksFiles (i cannot remember the exact wording of the error) To fix it i removed the usb plugged it into my laptop and opened up txtsetup.sif in notepad and ctrl+F’d sourcedisksfiles. I noticed that the code for binifix4.cmd along with undoren.cmd and renfold.cmd read: 100,x,2,0,0 which differed from the other million files which read: 1,3,2,0,0,1,2 simply changing the 100 to a 1 (on all three) and then saving the.sif file fixed the corrupt.sif problem.
I don’t know if this is a mistake in the.sif or not but it fixed my problem. Hopefully this will help anyone who gets this error, i think its pretty rare as a google brought up few relevant hits. Stacey Garo Says. “PROBLEM when you are selecting GUI option it says ( windows root/system32/hal.dll) file corrupt or missing.SOLUTIONAfter TXT mode installation select boot device Hard Disk.Then during reboot press down arrow to select appropriate Windoes Xp installationselect last windows xp from menu This is because you may have previous version xp in your machineI think it will work.bcoz i solved this problem in my case cheers!!!!!!” NOT WORKING. PLEASE PROVIDE ME WITH A SOLUTION SOON. THANKS.
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Purple Haze Says. Just wanted to let you know, I ran into a couple of issues with your process. First of all, my system has no CDRom drive and had enumerated my flash stick as D. The usbprep8.cmd file had to be modified to allow D: to be a valid USB drive by inserting D and d into this line: FOR%%i IN (E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y) DO IF “%%i” “!ok!” SET usbdrive=!ok!: so that it looks like this: FOR%%i IN (D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y) DO IF “%%i” “!ok!” SET usbdrive=!ok!: After that, it let me use the drive as the target drive (step 3). The other issue I have is that the only flash stick I have is an 8gb one. Drives of this size cannot be formatted as FAT by PEtoUSB.exe. To get around this, while PEtoUSB.exe was loaded in memory, I used the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool to create a FAT partition.
Then I exited that program after the format was complete and wrote out the boot sector with NT52 using the bootsect.exe program and continued from there. Everything is working great. Thanks to all the coders out there who are doing all the hard work for me. Edgar Sousa Says. Thanks to the author for creating this post and helping ppl out.
Great job sir! BUT, I am going thru an issue while booting windows from usb drive.
PROBLEM: When i select the TXT OPTION at first instance to install windows the process continiues for a few seconds and then a MESSAGE PROMPTS:” CPQUARRY.SYS file is MISSING/cannot be found” and the SETUP CANNOT CONTINUE, the computer has to RESTART. Did anyone on this forum go thru such a problem( as i cud not find any relative post on this issue)?? PLEASE HELP ME OUT WITH THIS SITUATION, I am stuk with this installation process need to get it done badly and the CD ROM DOES NOT EVEN WORK ON MY PC!! Hope to hear from author or any one of you!.
saurabh Says. Mike Says: The error also mentioned the file binifix4.cmd under SourceDisksFiles (i cannot remember the exact wording of the error) To fix it i removed the usb plugged it into my laptop and opened up txtsetup.sif in notepad and ctrl+F’d sourcedisksfiles.
I noticed that the code for binifix4.cmd along with undoren.cmd and renfold.cmd read: 100,x,2,0,0 which differed from the other million files which read: 1,3,2,0,0,1,2 simply changing the 100 to a 1 (on all three) and then saving the.sif file fixed the corrupt.sif problem. I don’t know if this is a mistake in the.sif or not but it fixed my problem.
Hopefully this will help anyone who gets this error, i think its pretty rare as a google brought up few relevant hits. Mike You were right great thanks!!!. Tieyok Says. EXCELLENT SOLUTION: Mike Says: The error also mentioned the file binifix4.cmd under SourceDisksFiles (i cannot remember the exact wording of the error) To fix it i removed the usb plugged it into my laptop and opened up txtsetup.sif in notepad and ctrl+F’d sourcedisksfiles.
I noticed that the code for binifix4.cmd along with undoren.cmd and renfold.cmd read: 100,x,2,0,0 which differed from the other million files which read: 1,3,2,0,0,1,2 simply changing the 100 to a 1 (on all three) and then saving the.sif file fixed the corrupt.sif problem. I don’t know if this is a mistake in the.sif or not but it fixed my problem. Hopefully this will help anyone who gets this error, i think its pretty rare as a google brought up few relevant hits. Mike You were right great thanks!!!. missfinland Says. Ho guys, just sharing my exprnc.
There is an easier way, less step than above. And i am succeeded installing XPHE (SP3 included) on my netbook (N450proc, 1GBRAM ddr3, 250SATAHDD) 1. Preparation (an UFD (1GB), XP cd/ISO master, cd emulator/ cd drive, DONT FORGET TO WRITE your KEY FIRST before install. Download novicorp freeware (search on softpedia). Plug in the UFD, and run the novicorp, follow the wizard. Wait to finish.
Boot your computer target from this USB, and follow on screen instruction (standar XP installation). Or, you can try Universal USB Installer from pendrivelinux. It supports most linux distros, windows vista & windows 7.
Mostly using ISO file. But not the XP.
subodh Says. Well., thanks to author for sharing this. When i was trying to do this, i ended up with 2 problems(1 minor and 1 major prob) I did the first part, making the usb stick bootable fine, i had some difficulties in the second part i.e in installing. Problem 1: Hard disk was not shown, and only the usb disk was shown,so i was unable to do neither partition nor installing the os Soln: We need to disable our native sata support, Otherwise our SATA HDD for the installation of XP will not be detected. For this go to the bios, select the system configuration tab, in that there will be a option called SATA native support, disable it. Note: this options depends on the bios version and the manufacturer, it may differ.
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In some bios option, for default in some bios AHCI will be enabled, select IDE and then save the configuration settings. Problem 2: this was really a pain in the neck for me,cos everything went fine and after installing the xp,it rebooted and it has to go through graphical installtion, i.e option 2 but it displayed some hal.dll file was missing Soln: the hal.dll file has nothing to do with the installation. The problem relies with boot.ini file.
Insert your pen drive in some other computer, double click the boot.ini(if you cant find search and find it, it will be there). Boot.ini has some contents, there will be word called partition(0)., actually there will be two words.
In my case i installed my xp in 4th partition so i edited the partition(0) to partition(4), on installing be aware to check on what partition you are installing.,so that you can change the parameter accordingly. After Changing click save.
Now Plug it in your Laptop. Voila i am damn sure it will work this time. Good day everyone, I ended up in a rather different situation here today. I have had this machine HP (COMPAQcx6120) for a while and the dvd rom was broken. A couple of months ago I followed your instruction and it went like a charm and i had a WinXP professional installed on it. Few weeks ago I encountered the machine to be displaying some system file errors which turned out to be due to my young nephew messing with it while i was away and i decided to redo the same procedure only this time, I am always at this dead end.
Since the same HP (Compaqcx6120) had been setup with WintoFlash I decided to go with it. Everything went OK except when I plugged in the USB to boot i was stuck on the prompt with cursor flashing for 10 mins and no magic whatsoever, not even the menu TXT or GUI. Next i went manually setting up as you mentioned above and everything was a OK, USB booted the machine to Windows setup and up until the Partition part. I see 2 partitions of which one can be deleted and repartitioned however the other one which comes up as either D or E is an NTFS about 30 GB and cant be touched by windows setup since it says its a system partition and needs it for files to copied later on for setup to complete, the USB drive comes listed separately so i m confused why. The other problem is if i select the other partition to setup windows it goes until formatting is done and the point at which setup starts copying files it gives back an error that setup can not copy files default.pif with only opton to quit to setup. As to what I understand I fear the partition that can not be deleted or used to setup the WinXp seems to be an old WIN7 partition, (i have had win7 on it too long ago but like I said i did your tutorial to setup the winxp before on the same machine not too long ago) what else can be done to remove all or completely format the disk at this stage?
Other thing is, what is causing my installation to stop copying the files it seeks (naturally the setup says it wants to copy from CD which infact are to be copied from the USB in this case)? V Trackbacks. May 5th, 2010. June 19th, 2010.
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