I made history yesterday.

[Bird Brain]

Yes folks took a couple of days to work it out,not bad for someone who has trouble with a light switch normally.

I had all sorts of problems in a way with a 4gb flash disk not being enough....(by 1mb)

Some disks didn't work and some did.I now have two bootable flashdisks with Win7 on them.

Although I did use a Microsoft program to do this the first disk I made was with the command prompt and searching the interweb for tips.

The only problem being the files didn't all fit onto the flash so I used an 8gb Verbatim flashdisk and the second one was a Jetflash 32GB.

It took half an hour approx to install win 7 by this method.I have to reinstall again as I have found a bigger clean hard drive to use on my cube system.

Anyone ever installed Windows XP this way?

When I have ever done it all I got was a blue screen.

 

[HJ]

Interesting...

I think you will find that Windows XP is only happy if it is on a hard drive partition labeled C: Microsoft are about 10 years behind Linux on this.

 

[Carwash]

Interesting...

I think you will find that Windows XP is only happy if it is on a hard drive partition labeled C: Microsoft are about 10 years behind Linux on this.

I'd be worried if there were any partition my Linux systems labelled 'C:'!

 

[iAmiAdam]

I've installed XP from an external HDD and a usb pen before.

 

[rh100]

HJ I think the OP is referring to using the USB stick as the install medium, not the resulting C drive.

That was good going, I haven't tried doing Win7 from a flash drive yet, could be usefull.

For XP I tried this http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb using method 2, but I made a mistake and I think I've done some damage to the usb stick as it wont boot from it anymore - haven't had the time to investigate further.

 

[Bird Brain]

It's actually not to hard and with the Microsoft tool to do it it's even easier.

I'd be interested to know how it was done on XP because every time I have done it I have received a blue screen.

Useful to have for when I go on holiday in case it goes tits up.Oh thanks for the link rh100.

http://store.microsoft.com/help/iso-tool

Actually this is the tool.I did do it via command prompt first time but it didn't work as a 4gb stick wasn't big enough,by 1mb.

 

[twowheelsgood]

Been installing XP from flash for years now as netbooks don't have CD/DVD ROMS.

This method works for me: http://www.eeeguides.com/2007/11/installing-windows-xp-from-usb-thumb.html

 

[twowheelsgood]

Oh, if you've installing XP on newer systems, avoid AHCI mode and put the hard disks in IDE...

 

[Bird Brain]

Thanks!

Im finding 7 not too bad at the moment,the honeymoon is still on.

Fixed minor problems.

 

[HJ]

HJ I think the OP is referring to using the USB stick as the install medium, not the resulting C drive.

That was good going, I haven't tried doing Win7 from a flash drive yet, could be usefull.

For XP I tried this http://wiki.eeeuser.com/windowsxpusb using method 2, but I made a mistake and I think I've done some damage to the usb stick as it wont boot from it anymore - haven't had the time to investigate further.

Ah, I see that I got the wrong end of things, sorry....