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How to install windows XP from pen drive step by step guide

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How to install windows XP from pen drive step by step guide

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In this article we would prepare pen drive as a window XP installation

media. Once we prepared this pen drive you could install XP from this. This
is useful for notebook or CDROM / DVDROM less system.
Requirement
Windows Xp installation disk,

Install
Pen Drive
Download XP
XP Disk Bootable
Windows XP
Win XP
XP Network Fix
XP Repair
XP Password

solution.rar file
Working pen drive of at least 2 GB.
We need to transfer all XP installation media files into pen drive. If you don't
have dump of XP CD on hard disk then you need to copy them from XP CD.
Download this file solution.rar and extract it.

Attach a pen drive (All data will be erase from pen drive)
Open the folder where you have extracted the files from solution.rar and run
HpUSBformat.exe.

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This command will detect your USB disk, if not, select form the list ( in this
example my USB memory stick is drive M: )
Now set these options
Volume label : - SYSTEM
Check marks on :- Create a DOS Start up disk
Select radio button :- Using DOS system files located at:
Give the path where you have extracted solution.rar (Give the
path of DOS folder) files

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At this moment pen drive has become DOS bootable.

Copy all other files from DOS folder to your USB disk. ( you can overwrite
existing ones)

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Insert Windows Xp installation disk into CD-ROM and copy all files from CD
to USB drive.
Now pen drive should look like this

Now you have a xp bootable pen drive.

Now we have XP bootable pen drive. We would install XP from this pen
drive.
Boot system from this pen drive. If system does not boot from pen drive
check first bootable media setting in BIOS.
Step1:- When system is booted up, and you see command prompt, type
sys d: and hit enter if you see system transferred - you have luck, FAT32
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file system is on drive C:, you will not lose your data
- go to step 5
- if any problem appears go to step 2
Step2:-REMEMBER, you will loose all data from drive C:/> - when system
is booted up from USB, your drive C: appears as D:
Step3:- Type format d:/q/s to format drive D:
accept and when it is finished, go to step 5 ( you are lucky, you don't need
to make partitions)
otherwise go to step 4
Step4:- Type fdisk and hit enter
create new partition ( after restart boot with pendrive in)
go to step 3 and format the partitions and come back here :)
type pqmagic and set your new partition active
( physical drive 2, Advanced A, set Active - S, are you sure - Y, Exit X)
Step5:-Type nc and hit enter, and using Norton Commander, copy all files
form pendrive to disk C: ( you can overwrite existing ones)
Step6:-Restart Laptop without pen drive in it (it should start from hard drive)
Step7:-Type cd i386 and hit enter (it will enter i386 folder)
Step8:-Type winnt and hit enter
Step9:-this will launch xp installation process and you can install xp as
you do with cd.

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# jiten

2014-12-15 08:49

Successfully install window but window is not start without pendrive

Help me
To make c active
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# abhishek

2014-11-11 21:33

Bad command or file name

Shows in the process
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# mukul

2014-11-03 04:29

really it works and done successfully ...thanks sanjay

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# Wasique

2014-10-16 15:20

How to copy from nc.Please explain me that. I am stuck there

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# sunilroy

2014-09-18 08:40

helo i had windows 8.1 dvd, but when i inserted it showing not a
bootable device , please insert a bootable device. help me please
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# mujtaba husain

2014-09-22 06:38

bootable usb format

start ...run...cmd///right click run as administrator
...diskpart
...list disk
....select disk 1
....clean...
create partition primary size=7500
format fs=ntfs quick
active
exit
exit
than copy windows files and paste in usb and restart and go to
boot option ,first boot device select usb
installation will start from usb
good bye
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# Rajko

2014-09-07 09:27

I have 2 drives on hard disc C: and D: and I must safe data on the
disc D:
The step 4 with "type pqmagic and set your new partition active"
looks very dangerous with me, am I right
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# Arsad Iquebal

2014-10-07 13:37

Yes it is dangerous.You may less your all data on Drive D:

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# darshan

2014-08-14 06:42

same as #altaf happened with me.. what should I do ??

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# Ajay

2014-08-07 11:03

its working
thanks sanjay
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# jonathan

2014-08-10 16:16

bro how did you copy files by norton command ..pls let me
know.because i cant understand the words that has been used!
Pls help
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# satya narayana

2014-07-20 12:47

worked good, but little bit change, when all commands followed as
above, some not executed but, finally i got it.
Thank you very much.
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# SURESH

2014-07-01 14:35

thanks bro... it works

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# Anubhav Kanojia

2014-01-13 14:18

I followed the whole process to make my PD bootable.. but at the

boot time my system is not giving any message to "boot from PD" or
mething like that.. I have already changed the First Boot device as
USB-CD ROM.
plz help me ... It's urgent
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# Gijs

2014-01-08 17:18

It says: cannot specify default drive.

when I type sys c:
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# manu

2014-10-24 08:13

Quoting Gijs:
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It says: cannot specify default drive.

when I type sys c:

hey insert two pendrive one should be os and the solution rar.
after extraction and another one pendrive should have only the
solution rar.
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# manu

2014-10-24 08:15

how to copy from nc DUDE

and how to restart while booting
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# Ranjit

2013-12-27 12:06

i have 3 drives. i want to format drive c only, drive D&E have my data.
please tell me if my data in D&E will b safe or not????
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# Nadeem

2014-02-19 13:03

when formatting is going on then open partition format only drive

c then your d or e drive data will be safe
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# Arun

2014-04-27 05:32

if you are formatting only c drive then only c drive will get
formatted the which ins there in your d and e will remain as it is
nothing will happen to your date .
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# Hyuri

2013-11-22 21:28

I'm having a "Invalid drive specification" error. How do i solve that?

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# harry

2013-11-18 12:47

I am unable to copy at step :5 as the language is different

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# Hussain

2013-11-13 16:52

It shows End User License Agrement not found.

What should I do....?
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# Arun

2014-04-27 05:34

you need a complete os in which agreement is there without the

agreement you will not be able to move to the further procedure of
os installation .
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# prince raput

2013-10-27 13:03

Thxx Brother Realy Thx...

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# W@lmik

2013-10-15 10:02

nc command is not working...saying bad command.

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# amzad

2013-10-13 12:05

i am stuck at step no. 5, after typing nc it is sayin "bad command or

file name".
kindly help ASAP
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# altaf

2013-09-09 17:51

thank you
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