Is there a way to install Windows XP (or windows 2000) from a USB thumb
drive? I want to be able too boot from the USB drive, and have the windows
installer come up, as if I were installing from a CD using a CDrom drive.
My new laptop (EEE PC 900) has no optical drives, and I really don't want to
get an external optical drive just to install windows.
It would been wonderful if I could find some way to simply copy a bootable
ISO of a CD onto the thumb drive and allow it to boot as if it were a boot CD.
"Hugsie" <Hugsie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2C4E2980-1751-4A4F-B948-D487DE8C7A64@microsoft.com...
> Is there a way to install Windows XP (or windows 2000) from a USB thumb
> drive? I want to be able too boot from the USB drive, and have the
> windows
> installer come up, as if I were installing from a CD using a CDrom drive.
>
> My new laptop (EEE PC 900) has no optical drives, and I really don't want
> to
> get an external optical drive just to install windows.
>
> It would been wonderful if I could find some way to simply copy a bootable
> ISO of a CD onto the thumb drive and allow it to boot as if it were a boot
> CD.
Only if the BIOS supports booting from a USB device....
Jim
> Only if the BIOS supports booting from a USB device....
> Jim
it does, i wouldn't ask if this little laptop didn't. Regardless your reply
doesn't answer my question.
how can i get a bootable ISO of a cd to boot up and install on a USB thumb
drive as a boot device, so i can install OSes, including windows, to be used
on PCs w/o optical drives? (e.g. EEE PCs)
>>Only if the BIOS supports booting from a USB device....
>>Jim
>
>
> it does, i wouldn't ask if this little laptop didn't. Regardless your reply
> doesn't answer my question.
>
> how can i get a bootable ISO of a cd to boot up and install on a USB thumb
> drive as a boot device, so i can install OSes, including windows, to be used
> on PCs w/o optical drives? (e.g. EEE PCs)
You didn't search too hard, in the first few search hits I found this:
Installing Windows FROM a USB drive 
Linear Mode
