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Hello there, i currently have Fedora 11 installed and would like to make a bootable USB from an ISO so i can install Windows XP, i have the ISO for ...
  1. 06-21-2009 #1
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    Creating bootable USB from an ISO

    Hello there, i currently have Fedora 11 installed and would like to make a bootable USB from an ISO so i can install Windows XP, i have the ISO for windows XP.

    I have searched on google but have had no luck. The reason for doing it this way is that i have just bought a nettop which has no CD drive.

    Firstly is this possible? If so, can anyone point me in the right direction?

    Thanks in advance
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  2. 06-21-2009 #2
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    Welcome to the forums!

    Sorry, but I'm not sure that I understand what you are wanting to do.

    Are you wanting to put Windows XP on the bootable flash drive and install WinXP from that? If so, you might have better luck asking about this on a Windows OS forum since more users there might have attempted such a task.

    If I've misunderstood, can you please clarify?

    In the interim, perhaps someone here has tried it and can provide an answer.
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    It's easy to create a bootable Linux USB drive with UNetbootin, and I've heard that you can create a bootable Windows USB drive, but I don't know about tools to make a Windows installation ISO into a bootable USB drive. However, it should be possible from your FC11 system. What you should try:

    1. Run fdisk against the usb drive and create a DOS (w96 FAT32) partition. Make it bootable.
    2. Create a vfat file system on the usb partition.
    3. Mount the usb drive partition: sudo mount /dev/sdx1 usb-mnt-point
    4. Mount the iso image: sudo mount -o loop filename.iso iso-mnt-point
    5. Copy the contents of the iso image to the usb partition: cp -rv iso-mnt-point usb-mnt-point
    6. Reboot with the USB drive your boot device.

    I don't know if this will work, but it's probably worth trying.
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    Yes that is correct, you have not misunderstood and thanks, i will give it a go!
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  5. 06-22-2009 #5
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    If you are trying to install and boot XP from a USB drive then you will have problems, XP was not programed for that option. Did try once (some what) with out success on a USB hdd with 1st link.

    Read:
    Ngine.de - How to install and run a FULL Windows XP from a USB drive
    SolutionBase: Boot Windows XP from a USB flash drive
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    Since this is a windows question, and not a linux one, would suggest you go to a windows forum.

    Vista Forums has provided me with quite a few good answers. It is a vista forum, but they have quite a few answers for all windows. Do a search there for "XP install usb" and i'm sure you'll find something useful. Or even

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