Live USB XP

Yes, indeed it can be useful to me one day; I will keep it to save data on an external hard drive via USB.
Thank you for the info.

Yes, if you want, I can sell it for cheap, but who would want it?
It only works via USB, what could its price be?

It's me again!
I couldn't install XP on my 4GB, but I found a 40GB IDE in my archives, great, installation of XP OK.
I was able to update my BIOS.
But the 250GB SATA hard drive is still not recognized, so it's going to the trash.
I just bought another one: WD 500GB 8MB cache (it's little but it will be enough), only €43, so I didn't hesitate.
So my problem is solved.
Thanks to everyone (and anyone) who helped me.

Thank you krazykat.
I hadn't thought of that solution, I have an old 4GB hard drive and I hope that's enough to install XP.
I'll test it and let you know the result.
Thanks again.

Thank you for your response.
Yes, I tried 2 SATA cables, still nothing!
I can boot with USB BarpPE but not in administrator mode.
Flashing my BIOS has to be done in administrator mode, and that's where it gets stuck!
I have the new BIOS on my BarPE USB stick, but it's not that simple!
Do you have a solution?

Yo !

Good news! I tried with another key and everything is working perfectly. I made a C program that automates all the tasks, basically you fill in your .ini and your live works by itself ^^ If you’re interested, I can pass it on to you, I owe you that.

In any case, thanks for the help you gave me, it was really appreciated. As far as I know, I shouldn't have any other problems, but you never know. So I wish you all the best, man ;)

It is possible to launch BarpPE, on Windows: go to the key, folder Programs, Nu2Menu, and launch nu2menu.exe
At the bottom left, you see the Bartpe launcher: GO
Then click on a43 File Management Utility

If it doesn't launch, right click, compatibility mode XP, run as Administrator.

If you still have issues, download the portable version of BartPE here: http://www.nu2.nu/download.php?sFile=pebuilder3110a.zip
Unzip it.
Right click on PEBUILDER.exe, compatibility mode XP.
Run it as administrator.
Create your Bartpe folder and an iso file, if possible.

Right click on the petousb.exe file, XP mode and Administrator.
Create your bootable key.

If it doesn’t work, you will need to burn your iso at someone's place or at your training (if I’m not mistaken^^) and test your CD.
Because right now, we don’t even know if the problem comes from the compilation or the key.
You can even borrow a USB keyboard or mouse, it would make things clearer ^^

Regarding drivers, SP3 contains many more drivers than SP2.
To retrieve your driver, there are software options, driverMax works on Windows 7.

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Well, it works when I put it on a drive that's less than 2GB. But as soon as I try to use my 32GB drive partitioned to 512MB, it doesn't work anymore. That is, it doesn't even boot -.- I can't figure it out anymore.

No, I produce the BartPE under W7.

I'm booting on my laptop, so it's a pre-wired keyboard. I don't think there are any options to check to enable the keyboard when compiling BartPE.

Thanks for the links, I'll take a look at that. For portable software, you just need to put them in a folder at the root of the USB drive, and that's it, handy ;D

I used a different ISO and now it's booting ;D!!! However, I can't use the keyboard -.-". Have you experienced this problem? I need to integrate software into the ISO like OpenOffice, do you have any idea how to do that?

Thanks for your help.

I followed another tutorial that you kindly recommended http://www.supinfo-projects.com/fr/2006/winxp_sur_usb_2006/2/ and now it boots, that's already something. However: blue screen when loading XP -.-" There's already some progress...

Yes, the SGF FAT does not accept files larger than 2GB in size. You need to switch to Linux to partition using parted or gparted. But anyway, that's not the main problem... It doesn't even work with 1.2GB USB drives...

It drives me crazy! I don’t understand what’s wrong!

All my CDs are dead! What was your track?

I'll do it right away and let you know.

It's not working. I admit I'm on the verge of a nervous breakdown right now :D

I tested it on 1, 2, 8, and 32 GB... So did it need to be compiled with BartPE for your ISO or not? I directly used Petousb?

Doesn't work -.-, it's always the same... No need to compile with PEBuilder? Has that already been done?