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hgjybrandon
July 11th, 2011, 06:17 PM
hi, i am currently running Ubuntu 11.04 . i have an ISO image of Windows XP, i would like to install it on a usb so i can boot and install windows xp. does anyone know a program where i can make the USB boot up thing.
- Please, you help is valued!-

vivakh
July 11th, 2011, 06:34 PM
I managed to do it, using an .iso of windows XP installed on a USB flash drive with unetbooter, but only for one computer, a dell inspirion laptop. i tried the same thing with a dell mini 9 and no luck. i was apparently missing the correct bootfiles. i'm not sure why such similar machines behaved so differently towards the same USB stick... i wish i did know!

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1097294

Bucky Ball
July 11th, 2011, 06:36 PM
System>Administration>Startup Disk Creator might work.

hgjybrandon
July 11th, 2011, 06:37 PM
System>Administration>Startup Disk Creator might work.


ive tried this, when i click the iso image, it wont show up in the box above the usb

hgjybrandon
July 11th, 2011, 06:40 PM
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1097294

is it possible, my friend has a windows 7 laptop, is it possible to find a program and do it from there?

ajgreeny
July 11th, 2011, 07:46 PM
System>Administration>Startup Disk Creator might work.
That will only work with the ubuntu family of linux distros, not others, and certainly not Windows of any variety.

You might like to try unetbootin, but I have no idea if it will work or fail.

Bucky Ball
July 11th, 2011, 07:48 PM
You might like to try unetbootin, but I have no idea if it will work or fail.

That was the other one I couldn't remember. Pretty sure I made a USB of Windows using that. I had a 4Gb stick with Win and one with Ubuntu at one stage. Ready for anything!

Mark Phelps
July 11th, 2011, 09:27 PM
From the unetbootin homepage ...

"UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for Ubuntu, Fedora, and other Linux distributions ..."

It appears to be runable on MS Windows but the pulldown only appears to list Linux distros.

Bucky Ball
July 12th, 2011, 06:54 AM
I'll get on my desktop machine later and see if I can discover what I used to create the Windows install USB (created it on that machine). I was setting up a dual-boot on a friend's netbook with no CD drive in it so it was the only way to install Windows or Ubuntu.

* Jeez, people, this took two seconds to find with a google. Not the one I used I don't think, but ...

http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2009/08/27/make-a-bootable-usb-installer-for-windows-xp-vista-7-with-wint/

... from this page:

http://www.google.com.au/#hl=en&source=hp&q=usb+installer+windows&oq=usb+installer+windows&aq=f&aqi=g3g-j7&aql=f&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2624l8885l0l21l17l0l3l3l0l275l2340l4.5.5l14&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=b0d115c29418439e&biw=1366&bih=594

... ? Knock yourself out ...