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I have an older netbook that I just want to have use of occasionally, and want to load XP on it. I tried Linux distros, but as little as this will be used, I don't have time to teach myself how to operate in Linux. I have an .iso file from a Windows XP installation disk. I tried using Unetbootin to put the iso on a flash drive to install to the netbook, but it won't boot from the flash drive. At this point, the netbook's hard drive is formatted NTFS, and I thought that by booting from the flash drive I'd be able to install XP. Suggestions?
ColoBob
Posted 2015-01-24T23:49:58.577
Reputation: 193
I haven't tried installing xp from USB flash disk. One option is to get a usb cd drive. Another possibly is to copy the installation files to a small partition on the hard drive and install from that partition to another partition on the hard drive. – barlop – 2015-01-25T00:32:27.600
Without modifications, Windows XP cannot boot from USB thumb drives, not even the setup. Luckily, Google reveals many options. – Daniel B – 2015-01-25T00:33:32.133
I'm pretty certain that Unetbootin works with Linux ISOs only, not Windows. You can try Microsoft's Windows 7 USB/DVD Download tool at http://wudt.codeplex.com/ - it's advertised to work with Windows 7/8 ISOs but I've heard it works for XP as well. Never tried it though. If that doesn't work, then try Win32 Disk Imager from http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/ which should work for all ISOs.
– tlng05 – 2015-01-25T01:37:01.113