How to Make Windows Xp Sp3 Bootable Usb
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I dunno how many times I have done this in the past, enough to not have a problem I am sure....
So far I have tried Rufus 2.6 and the latest Unetbootin, the damn thing will not boot!!!!!!
I think re ripped my iso with Imgburn, tried to make the USB again and get the SAME RESULTS!!!!!!!
one machine just reboots, the other halts with "No boot record",
HUH??? I know I have made bootables from this iso before
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Have you made the USB bootable before adding the image?
Or is that part of Rufus? Have not used that tool so i do not know if you need to do it as a separate step.
Why are you needing to do this?
Drop the ISO into Windows Deployment services and network/PXE boot the computer you want to run,
Or clone the master computer to the one you need to redeploy.
In rufus, make sure you set the Partition Scheme and System type correctly. It defaults to a UEFI option, which will not work with XP.
Additionally, are these two particular machines set to enable USB booting in the bios?
No longer has access to the development server. I just went and grabbed a USB cd drive, do it that way!
I got ti booted to the Cd, but setup apparently is not loading the controller driver and so it does not see the harddrive..............AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
MrAdam wrote:
I got ti booted to the Cd, but setup apparently is not loading the controller driver and so it does not see the harddrive..............AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
not when the sata operation isn't set to IDE........I am going back to bed.
I know that certain Kingston and Sandisk USB's do not cooperate with a bootable windows ISO, but will work fine for anything NON-windows. One of them I used for an install had to be removed, then plugged back in on the Windows Partition screen for it to progress.
Give it shot with another USB. If you know your ISO is good, you know things are partitioning correctly, then the issue must be with the directory.
May be worth giving the USB a full wipe first, then having RUFUS do a bad blocks scan quick.
Glomgore AKA Glomasaurus Rex wrote:
I would be wary of the type of USB you are using. We've had issues here in house with certain brands of USB's and getting them to be bootable, specifically with Windows install bootables and attempts to make a live USB such as you are.I know that certain Kingston and Sandisk USB's do not cooperate with a bootable windows ISO, but will work fine for anything NON-windows. One of them I used for an install had to be removed, then plugged back in on the Windows Partition screen for it to progress.
Give it shot with another USB. If you know your ISO is good, you know things are partitioning correctly, then the issue must be with the directory.
May be worth giving the USB a full wipe first, then having RUFUS do a bad blocks scan quick.
I know what you mean, i have tried two and they are both drives I regularly use for bootables. When I went up to get the USB disc drive I remembered having to get it one other time; I think I have been through this before and had forgot.
CrashFF wrote:
In rufus, make sure you set the Partition Scheme and System type correctly. It defaults to a UEFI option, which will not work with XP.
Additionally, are these two particular machines set to enable USB booting in the bios?
it was defaulting to NTFS but for S&Gs I tried setting it to Fat32, no joy.
Have you tried Easy2Boot? I use them for my multibook sticks.
http://www.easy2boot.com/introduction/
If your drive controller is other than what comes with XP, you need do F6 at the drive section of the install and load the driver from floppy or inject the driver into your image using something like Nlite and then reburn it.
NFTS is fine.. What I was referring to was the MBR for UEFI vs MBR for BIOS/UEFI
..........yep, back to bed for me........it's MBR, has been.
as a quick test, you can always format the USB drive in RUFUS as a FreeDos boot disc, and then just copy the XP cd over to it... I've never had an issue with that. You have to manually start the installation process, but it makes the bootable USB part stupid simple.
Try to set your drive to Legacy ;)
This seems like the logical next step. I would also ensure your boot is set to BIOS/Legacy/ATA as mentioned above.CrashFF wrote:
as a quick test, you can always format the USB drive in RUFUS as a FreeDos boot disc, and then just copy the XP cd over to it... I've never had an issue with that. You have to manually start the installation process, but it makes the bootable USB part stupid simple.
MrAdam wrote:
I got ti booted to the Cd, but setup apparently is not loading the controller driver and so it does not see the harddrive..............AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Load he controller driver with nLite and save the new ISO
http://www.nliteos.com/
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