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Recently I have been working on methods to boot windows xp from USB. 


I have tried nlite with a highly stripped version of XP. It was slow, and took a long time to make. 

I tried various boot usb methods like hiren's, only to find its illegal. 

I tried grub4dos, syslinux, isolinux and just about every other booting from usb method. 


Then I found (re-found) BartPE, and a nice tool that makes the whole process very quick and easy. 


#Run BartPE
#Direct it to your windows CD
#Click build (not ISO or record)
#Download PeToUSB.exe (this is NOT included with pebuilder)--[http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb PeToUSB.exe http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb]
#Select the folder you saved your BartPE build to, and choose the format option, and the copy option. Make sure you select your USB drive also.
#Make it go. Its done from there.

BartPE on a USB stick (booting xp from a usb stick) in less than 15 minutes.


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