I nod. “Don’t ever unplug that drive. Don’t run Windows Update. And for the love of God, don’t let anyone sneeze near the USB port.”
I try again. And again. I try every USB mass storage driver from the XP driver cab. I hack the registry—adding Start=0 to usbstor , usbhub , usbehci . Nothing. windows to go windows xp
Windows XP wasn’t built for USB boot. It blue-screens if you so much as sneeze at its storage driver. I start with a stripped-down XP SP3 ISO—the one from the MSDN archive that’s been sitting on my external drive since 2008. And for the love of God, don’t let
The USB now contains: a Frankensteined XP Home Edition, a custom boot.ini, and a small prayer I typed as a REM line in the batch file. I hack the registry—adding Start=0 to usbstor ,
I walk in. I pull out the SanDisk. I plug it into a random USB 2.0 port on the controller’s motherboard. I set the BIOS to boot from USB-HDD. Press F10. Save. Reboot.
