Bootable XP Flash Drive?

On Thursday, December 5, 2013 6:23:45 PM UTC-6, philo* wrote:
On 12/04/2013 03:42 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:

Sometimes I go to a library where I copy DVDs.



Right now, I'm bringing my own PC because, of course, the library PCs

are all locked down and aren't running the specialized application

needed to copy the DVDs in question.



Is there any hope for me creating a flash drive/USB stick that a PC

could boot XP from? The idea being that the application in question

could be installed on the flash drive's instance of XP and I could use a

library PC instead of having to bring my own.



I've got several unused XP licenses, so licensing would not (?) be an

issue.



Drivers? XP's installer seems to deal with the issue....



Is this worth pursuing, or am I trying to fool Mother Nature?









XP is not designed to run from a USB stick. There is a very complicated

hack I read about somewhere but it would be way more trouble than it's

worth.



OTOH: A bootable USB stick is easy to do with Linux

I heard think that ____ has been notified.

http://www.mpaa.org/contentprotection/report-piracy

On 12/06/2013 09:14 PM, Andy wrote:


troll


/plonk/

In ,
philo typed:
XP is not designed to run from a USB stick. There is a very
complicated hack I read about somewhere but it would be way more
trouble than it's worth.

OTOH: A bootable USB stick is easy to do with Linux

Actually WinPE and BartPE (both available in XP versions) run just fine
from an USB stick, CD, or whatever. Also XP Embedded also runs fine too.

To take the classic XP though is tricky because it requires about three
pages of registry changes. But then there are scripts available that
will that care of that in one mouse click. ;-)

--
Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core2 Duo T5600 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP2

On Saturday, December 7, 2013 2:05:11 PM UTC-6, philo* wrote:
On 12/06/2013 09:14 PM, Andy wrote:





troll





/plonk/

Not 2 original.

Andy