How To: Install Windows XP using Pen Drive

This tutorial is for those who wants to install XP using USB/Pen Drives. Though there are a lot of ways to do this but I choose the easiest one. For this you require following

• USB/Pen Drive minimum 1GB
• Windows 2000/XP/2003 CD or Installation Source
• and finally WinSetupFromUSB.

How To:

1. Download WinSetupFromUSB and install it.

2. Plug your Pen Drive.
3. The utility gives two options to format your USB

• HP Format Tool – to format 2GB or above of partitions.
• PEtoUSB – to format up to 2GB of partitions

Use as per your pen drive size.

4. Click Start to Format
5. Now Browse for CD/DVD source, see in picture below

6. Keep rest of the part intact. Press Go button
7. When the first step completes and system reboots, select
 Windows 2000/XP/2003 Setup – First and Second Parts,
then Option 2 (second part) for the second stage of the setup.
DO NOT REMOVE THE USB PEN FROM USB PORT UNTIL YOU SEE THE WINDOWS START MENU

This article is taken from Windows Valley