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How do I create a bootable installation of XP on a USB-stick from the WinXP-license that came with the NC10? Has anyone here done this or know how it’s done? I don’t want to run XP from the USB-stick, I want it to run the installation in exactly the same way that it would as if I use the Samsung Recovery CD with Windows XP to start the installation on the harddrive.
The reason is I want to be able to make a clean install if I ever would need that and I don’t have an external CD/DVD and if I can avoid it I don’t want one.
Or is there a way to connect the NC10 to my laptop and use that computers CD/DVD-player during boot-up and install from there?
Hi Freddy
I loathe recovery partitions and preinstalled crapware, so I did a clean install of XP Home as supplied on the Samsung Recovery Disk using an USB boot drive created using WinSetupFromUSB as explained in the following excellent guide:
I reclaimed the 6 GB wasted space from the recovery partition and I have allocated the disk space (all primary partitions) on my drive as follows:
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,0 for WinXP
* 50 GB as partition hd 0,1 for Windows 7
* 3 GB as partition hd 0,2 for linux-swap
* and the remainder (about 46 GB) as partition hd 0,3 for Ubuntu 8.10
Works a treat for me 🙂
However, I’ve not been able to boot from a networked DVD drive 🙁
@TCMuffin: Excellent! Just excellent! I have tried other programs and other guides but haven’t got it to work but I haven’t tried this one. I cannot thank you enough, I will try this one out 🙂 Thanks!
One thing to bear in mind.
The USB boot drive is a ‘one off’ installation disk – if you want to do another clean installation from the USB stick you have to recreate it.
I only found this out, because I kept fiddling around trying to find the optimum installation for my triple boot NC10. Once used, the USB boot drive becomes a ‘recovery’ drive. So to do another clean boot, you have to recreate the boot drive using WinSetupFromUSB and your WinXPCD folder.
Ok…there isn’t by any chance a way to get around this?
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One thing to bear in mind.The USB boot drive is a ‘one off’ installation disk – if you want to do another clean installation from the USB stick you have to recreate it.
I only found this out, because I kept fiddling around trying to find the optimum installation for my triple boot NC10. Once used, the USB boot drive becomes a ‘recovery’ drive. So to do another clean boot, you have to recreate the boot drive using WinSetupFromUSB and your WinXPCD folder.
[/quote1233590999]Hi Freddy
This is not too much of a problem…..obviously the USB drive is reusable, so, provided you keep the c:winxpcd it only takes about 30 minutes to recreate the boot USB.
Sorry I don’t know of a work around 🙁
I did some searching and found a site that explians how to make a USB flash drive bootable and install Windows from it
http://kmwoley.com/blog/?p=345
I have tested this be copying Vista x64 to a 4GB flash anfd installing on to one of my workstations. I also copied the NC10 Windows restore CD and that worked as well.
j.baker – that will work to boot to a vista or win7 installation, but not for an xp install. I prefer this method:
http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html
UPDATE: Now having used WinSetupFromUSB more than once I can tell that you CAN use it again and again and again 🙂
You don’t have to create it every time. It’s just a matter of making a choice in the menu when booting from it. When you use it one more time you have to make an active choice in the menus so that it goes into the first mode and there you can do a complete fresh install. I now have WinXP on a USB-stick and also backup important data to it for security reasons. Works great!After using WinSetupFromUSB I suggest you change the boot-order in BIOS from 1st USB drive, 2nd HDD to 1st HDD. I also suggest you remove the second boot-option in boot.ini (USB-recovery) because that doesn’t work anyway (not on my NC10 anyway) and if you want to do a recovery you can just as well plug in you USB-stick and change boot-order in BIOS to 1st: USB. When you get to the menu you can choose to do a recovery installation if you actively choose option 1 (not 2 that is default).
If you want to do a clean install, perhaps even delete your OS-partition you can do this with WinSetupFromUSB a second time and as many times you want, just be sure to choose option 1 (same as above but instead of doing a recovery you can do a fresh install)
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