Boot XP from USB - easy method

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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.


  1. Run BartPE
  2. Direct it to your windows CD
  3. Click build (not ISO or record)
  4. Download PeToUSB.exe (this is NOT included with pebuilder)--PeToUSB.exe http://gocoding.com/page.php?al=petousb
  5. 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.
  6. 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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