How to install the XP system with a USB flash disk

Many of my friends are using laptops without optical drives (especially netbooks). What should I do if I don't have an optical drive when I need to reinstall the system? Maybe you can say that it can be installed on a hard disk under DOS, but now, apart from a few people who work on a computer like me, 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. In order to provide convenience for such users, I 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

Prepare something before installing the system. One is the operating system image, and the other is the U disk that can be started.

The following describes how to use a USB flash drive to start and install the Windows xp system of Ghost xp.

Note: to read this article, you need to understand some basic knowledge about operating system installation.

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

First download a tool named "old peach WinPE" to the local hard disk, and then irregularly download a "GHOSTXP SP3V9.9 enhanced version ". Among them, the "old peach WinPE" Tool can be downloaded by Baidu, there are a lot of online. Connect the USB flash drive to your computer and follow these steps to create a boot USB flash drive.

GhostXP_sp3 computer company quick installation version V9.9 + (available on the blog)

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Fast Start thunder, create a download task, copy the following address to the "URL" column, and click OK)

Http://www.dhgho.com/ghostxp_sp3 _9.9 .iso

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

Select 4th items and press Enter.

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

In the formatting step, click "start" on the default settings.

Smooth 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 writing the boot, press any key to continue.

Set a password for the USB flash drive.

I didn't want to set the password for starting the USB flash drive, but this step cannot be skipped, so I had to set a password. After setting the USB flash drive, remember the password you set. Otherwise, the USB flash drive cannot be used.

Finished

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.

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

In the past, the boot item must be adjusted to Drive boot (Press DEL at startup to enter BIOS settings). Now we need to use a USB flash drive to mount the system, so we need to change it to USB flash drive. Different bios versions on different computers have different settings, but they are similar in that the purpose is to change the first boot item of the computer to a USB flash drive. The following describes how to adjust the bios.

The most common bios option for Phoenix-Award, just select the USB-HDD

Bios adjustment options for dell brand machines

BIOS of the ThinkPad series notebook

BIOS of HP commercial series notebook

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 an Enable USB flash drive

First, connect the USB flash drive with the boot function to the computer.

Start the computer

After starting the computer, you will be asked to enter the password for starting the USB flash drive, that is, the password you set when creating the USB flash drive. After you enter the correct password, you can see a selection menu and select "WinPE By: MAOTAO ".

Enter WinPE

Then, a mini operating system WinPE running on a USB flash disk (not a computer's hard disk) is displayed. It has many functions similar to XP, with it, we can do whatever we want on the computer.

You can format disk C.

How can this problem be solved? Can I directly format the drive C? Before installing the new XP, We must format the drive C.

Install the XP Disc

We chose the one we downloaded earlier.

GhostXP_sp3 computer company quick installation V13

Start Ghost of WinPe

Next we start another software, Norton Ghost, that comes with WinPE. Use it to restore the system's ghost image to the C drive of the previously formatted computer. :

Select XP. GHO from the file decompressed by GhostXP_sp3 computer rapid installation V13 (GHOSTXP_SP3_PRO_V13.iso. Click "OPEN.

After the preceding settings are selected, a dialog box will pop up asking you if you want to restore the specified GHO image to the C drive of your computer. Click yes.

Click YES, just wait until it is restored.

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 from this.