USB flash drive to start the XP System

Many of my friends are using laptops without optical drives, but the problem also arises. When we need to reinstall the system, there is no optical drive. What should we do? Maybe you can say that the hard disk can be installed under DOS, but how many people will use dos? In fact, not only do laptop users without optical drive worry about how to install the system, but also those desktop users without Optical Drive. To facilitate these users, we will explain how to install the operating system conveniently and quickly without an optical drive.

● Preparations before installing the system

A USB flash drive that can boot your computer and a system CD image. The following describes how to use a USB flash drive to start and install the Windows XP system of ghost XP.

● The first step is to create a boot USB flash drive with windowspe to enable the computer.

Download a tool named "old peach winpe" to the hard disk first.

Click "pesetup. EXE" in setup to go to the following steps. Be careful when performing this operation. Do not mistakenly cause data loss on the hard disk.

Select item 4 and press Enter.

Enter the drive letter of the USB flash drive and press Enter.

Click Start in the formatting step. After a long wait, the formatting is completed.

Click OK to complete the formatting.

Guide:

It should be noted that there are two options in the "device": one is the hard disk of the computer and the other is the U disk to be made. You must select the right USB flash disk instead of the wrong hard disk. The size of the USB flash disk can be determined. The author's USB flash drive is 2 GB, so we should choose (hd1) [1898 M]. You can skip the "options" section below. By default, no parameters are selected. After confirming the above steps, click "Install" and then proceed to the next step.

After completing the above steps, congratulations, a USB flash drive with the startup function has come to your side. You no longer need to worry about starting the drive from the drive, because you can start the drive from the USB flash drive and then install the operating system! Do you want to know how to perform this operation? The next page begins.
● Download the latest deep ghostsp3 SP3 system deepin_ghostxp_sp3_v2011.03_ie6.iso and extract the. gho file from it to the USB flash drive.

● Set the first boot item of the computer as a USB device.

You can see that the above BIOS options are different, but the adjustment options are for one purpose: Set the boot item of the computer to start from the USB device, in this way, the computer can be started from the USB flash drive.

● Install XP with a USB flash drive that can be started, First connect the USB flash drive with the boot function to the computer

After you change your computer, you will be asked to enter the password for starting the USB flash drive, that is, the password you set when making the USB flash drive. After you enter the correct password, you can see a selection menu and select "winpe by: maotao ".

Restart and enter the system. The reinstallation is complete.

After the ghost image is restored, You can restart the system. Now, the operating system has been installed with a USB flash drive! You can forget the troubles of installing the operating system without the optical drive.

It is worth mentioning that, because the entire process is to read data from the hard disk, the installation speed is much faster than the installation speed with a CD.

In fact, this is only one way to install the system with a USB flash drive. There are many other ways to install the system. This article will not give an example one by one. You may have noticed that with this USB flash drive, you do not have to worry about the system crash. After the important information is stored in drive C, it cannot be saved, because as long as you use the USB flash drive to start winpe, you can back up important data to other partitions. It is hoped that netizens can use winpe, a very useful tool installed on a USB flash drive, to draw a line between them.

References:

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