One of the requirements for creating our bootable USB flash drive is a Windows XP with Service Pack 3 Installation CD. Presently, you are stuck using FAT-16 because most computers will not recognize a flash drive as being bootable if the drive is formatted with anything other than FAT-16.
The reason for this is because you will have to format the flash drive using the FAT-16 file system, which has a 2 GB limit. As nice as it would be to have 16 GB to play with, the flash drive that you use for this project can be no larger than 2 GB. Currently, USB flash drives exist in sizes of up to 8 GB, and 16 GB flash drives are expected to be available by the end of the year. Even so, I still recommend that your flash drive be at least a minimum of 2GB in size.Īs I mentioned, there is a maximum size for the USB flash drive that you can use.
Later I will show you how to use a free utility to trim the excess fat off of Windows XP and make it a whole lot smaller. As you probably know, Windows XP normally consumes over a gigabyte of disk space.
You just need something large enough to hold Windows XP and a few applications. There isn’t really a documented minimal size for a flash drive. Your flash drive can’t be too large or too small. Surprisingly though, there are size limits on both the upper and lower end. The flash drive’s capacity is actually a limiting factor though. Technically, speed isn’t really a limiting factor, but booting Windows will be painfully slow unless you use a flash drive that supports USB 2.0. The primary factors that limit your use of a particular flash drive are capacity and speed. Older systems may require a BIOS update, or might not be able to boot from a flash drive at all.Īnother catch is that not every flash drive will get the job done. For the most part, computers manufactured within the last two years are generally able to boot from a flash drive. For starters, not every PC is capable of booting from a USB flash drive. So, Here’s how you can make your pen drive bootable for windows XP.Īs with most cool new techniques, there are a few catches. Today I was searching for how to make pen drive a bootable device for Windows XP.
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