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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Joseph Davis on July 12, 2009, 07:54:28 AM

Title: Install XP via USB
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 12, 2009, 07:54:28 AM
Anyone ever done this?  Thinkpad X60, SanDisk Cruzer 4GB (currently with the U3 shit removed).  I've tried:

- USB Multiboot, didn't do anything
- GRUB via several different installs, BSOD
- reinstalled the U3 crap and ran Universal Customizer so it'd theoretically act like a virtual CDROM, but it did nothing of the sort.

I'm trying USB Multiboot again with a different flavor of Windows, but I'm not terribly hopeful.  Any advice?

Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: BigGameHit on July 12, 2009, 08:17:29 AM
is the bios of the thankpad current enough to support USB Booting? i know even with the multiboot setup.... if the bios is not set to support OS booting, it will not..
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: dvst8r on July 12, 2009, 12:22:23 PM
Not sure if this is the same thing or not, but I have backtrack3 that boots from usb. I just mounted the .ISO too the usb Works fine as a bootable drive.

I have a feeling I am missing the point though.
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: BoostedSchemes on July 12, 2009, 02:26:25 PM
i install every windows app including 7 from usb drive, have you used google sucka?
wizard homo you need to format it to ntfs, set as active and primary then mount it and make it bootable using the BOOTSECT.EXE/NT60 command in dos
good day you old faggot

ps this is all useless if you have a piece of shit and your usb drive does not show up in bios... its shows up fine on my 4 year old china laptop so you have no excuses outside of being old replaceable and generally full of hot air and semen
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 12, 2009, 02:50:41 PM
It's an X60, yuriney. 

Google says that XP via thumb doesn't work, but Vista and 7 do.  I need a USB CD drive.

Thanks for being uninformed, though.
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: 88dx on July 12, 2009, 04:12:04 PM
haha The Grand Wizard of the Internet Sucks at the Internet  :P
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: BoostedSchemes on July 12, 2009, 07:11:05 PM
thanks for being uninformed, I installed xp from a usb drive to either corey or jons computer, both post on this site... this was like 3 years ago thanks
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: BoostedSchemes on July 12, 2009, 07:14:13 PM
i googled "install xp from usb"
this was like the first link you old faggot
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=92a5daee7a2af58488c8758b386413ab&showtopic=111406 (http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=92a5daee7a2af58488c8758b386413ab&showtopic=111406)

if you cant make that or anyone of the 99999 identical guides work then you are just fucking stupid and should stick to fucking civics wrecking cars because you are a drunk and ruining your kids life by being a piss poor role model for a fucking hamster
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 12, 2009, 08:24:38 PM
Again, you fail to understand.  I've been through that writeup, and others.  X60 is a special case.  I can thumb drive Vista or 7 onto it, but it does not take XP.  For XP I need a USB CD drive, and I can probably install over a network.
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: BoostedSchemes on July 12, 2009, 10:34:36 PM
why the fuck is it a special case

this would be like me posting "bmw fails to start" and saying special bmw you fail to understand
and neglecting to mention the niggery under the hood
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: Joseph Davis on July 12, 2009, 10:37:14 PM
Niggery under the hood is right.  Lenovo support forums has a sticky about all the things that cause BSOD on X6 Thinkpads, some of it is quite assinine.  The Thinkwiki also has a list of known good and known bad models of thumbdrive to use on various models of Thinkpad.  Any of the boot disk sites tell you it's still beta technology and shit sometimes doesn't work as advertised.

The good news is that this laptop, wiped and unusable, is worth more than your BMW.  Thanks for playing.
Title: Re: Install XP via USB
Post by: crttaz on July 13, 2009, 05:21:30 AM
Niggery under the hood is right.  Lenovo support forums has a sticky about all the things that cause BSOD on X6 Thinkpads, some of it is quite assinine.  The Thinkwiki also has a list of known good and known bad models of thumbdrive to use on various models of Thinkpad.  Any of the boot disk sites tell you it's still beta technology and shit sometimes doesn't work as advertised.

The good news is that this laptop, wiped and unusable, is worth more than your BMW.  Thanks for playing.
No Lenovo JB Porn from JD???

This thread fales!