How to run Windows XP from a USB stick
Recent days, there are so many Linux comes with live CDs. This is an alternative way for those who doesn’t want to install Linux on their hard drive. The live CD also become a problem solver when the system wont boot up or something happened with the system & you may rescue the files with CD. Beside the CDs, one of merely known Linux named DSL are comes with damn live USB! Note that this method required a computer which have ability to boot from USB devices.
By the chance, I heard something about Windows XP live in a USB flash disk. This is much interesting for me & would like to tried it. In a seconds, there was a secure link referred to the download page from Google. It size’s about 54MB & the link are here.
After it had completely downloaded, the packages are being extracted with WinRAR ~ since it is compressed with RAR format somehow. Finally, there are 7 files extracted from it. The first 2 files are the manual in Germany & Russian language. You might not found the English documentation because bartPE are seems developed by a Germany. First of all, we need to provide a USB stick with minimal size of 256MB. Then, make a fresh quick format with hpusbfw.exe tool includes in the packages. See the picture below.
After the format process done, reboot the system & make sure to activate the USB boot sequence from BIOS ~ while the USB disk are still plugged in. Let the computer booted from it & it will displayed a boot process in the monitor. The boot processes are taking much times depend upon the USB storage speed, so it would be great if you also preparing a coffee & a cigarette during waiting the desktop showing up.
The default desktop background is covered by dark bartPE pictures. In the left corner are showing up a “Go” button ~ representing a Start button in a real Windows. Have a click on it, it will raise a list of simple menu pointing to the default applications such as Windows Wordpad, the Calculator program, Paint image editor & a file manager called A43 replacing the Windows Explorer instead.
Note that this USB live also equipped with the fully functionality of command prompt. From the picture below, it’s DOS are actually come from a real Windows XP.
To view the detailed system information, take a tour to About menu. It will displayed a core simple information likes the system environment & other embedded programs.
Look at the picture below again, an About link from Paint programs shows you the exactly same as the About you might found in a real Windows. However, it is a Germany entirely. Doesn’t have to confused with it.
Although it has great advantages, eg: to rescue the system, it’s legality to use is being asked. This one link from several address pages are showing about the proprietary law legality. For me, it might be fine as long as the needed are still in a right condition. Have a nice mobility with it.
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December 20th, 2007 at 7:52 pm
That stories are great time users
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Why, when I read this, does it feel to me that I am on acid or somethin? Did the person who typed this down a six pack first or what?
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:35 pm
This is pretty good article, but it looks like it was translated with a program. Since it is in English I assume you expect English speaking people to read it. I took the liberty of correcting the most obvious mistakes. As it is, it is very annoying to read. Please replace each paragraph with the ones below. I had to completely delete a few sentences that made no sense at all, but I do not think the main idea has been altered. It would be much easier(for an English speaker) to read is all.
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Recently, there have been many Linux live CDs. This is an alternative for those who don’t want to install Linux on their hard drive. The live CD may also become a problem solver when the system won’t boot up or if something has happened to the system you may rescue your files with the CD. Beside the CDs, one distribution of Linux named DSL comes with damn live USB! Note that this method requires a computer which has the ability to boot from USB devices.
By chance, I heard something about Windows XP live in a USB flash disk. This is very interesting to me and I wanted to try it. In seconds, there was a secure link referred to the download page from Google. Its size is about 54MB and the link is here.
After it has completely downloaded, the packages need to extracted with WinRAR ~ since it is compressed with RAR format somehow. Finally, there are 7 files extracted from it. The first 2 files are the manual in German and Russian. You might not find the English documentation because bartPE seems to have been developed by a German. First of all, we need to provide a USB stick with a minimal size of 256MB. Then, make a fresh quick format with hpusbfw.exe tool included in the packages. See the picture below.
After the format process is done, reboot the system and be sure to activate the USB boot sequence from BIOS ~ while the USB disk is still plugged in. Let the computer boot from it and it will display a boot process in the monitor. The boot processes may take a while depending upon the USB storage speed, so it would be great if you also prepare a coffee and a cigarette while waiting for the desktop to show up.
The default desktop background is covered by dark bartPE pictures. In the left corner there is a “Go” button ~ representing a Start button in a real Windows. Click on it, it will raise a list of simple menus pointing to the default applications such as Windows Wordpad, the Calculator program, Paint image editor & a file manager called A43 which replaces the Windows Explorer.
Note that this USB live is also equipped with the full functionality of command prompt. From the picture below, it’s DOS actually comes from a real Windows XP.
To view detailed system information, take a tour of the About menu. It will display simple core information like the system environment and other embedded programs.
Look at the picture below again, an About link from the Paint program is exactly the same as the About you might find in a real Windows. However, it is in German entirely.
Although it has great advantages, eg: to rescue the system, it’s legality to use is questionable. This is one link from several address pages about the proprietary law legality. Enjoy its mobility.
December 23rd, 2007 at 9:44 pm
I’m going to see if this will work with Virtual PC or VirtualBox
December 23rd, 2007 at 10:05 pm
It works great with Virtual PC. Just create a virtual machine,start it,
then go to menu→File→Pause,
then go to menu→CD→Capture_iso_image,
then navigate to the extracted rar folder you downloaded and select BartPe.iso,
then go back to menu→File→resume to unpause the virtual machine.
December 27th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
You seem to be confused. What you have is not Windows XP, it’s a trimmed down version of windows known as WinPE (this is further enforced by the “Bart PE” title). WinPE is usually used for deployment processes, though can be customized to your hearts delight. It’s available through microsoft and is completely legal. But i repeat, it is NOT fully equiped like XP is.
December 31st, 2007 at 10:40 am
It was hard for me to understand what you mean. I would strongly recommend you to have someone who speaks english, check your posts before posting them. Oh and you are posting about something that is illegal, don’t be surprised if your hosting service asks you to remove the page.
January 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
This is pretty cool but is there something you can do to make it English? Some parts of the OS are in German. This isn’t really a critical thing since the main things you would be doing on this are in English but it would be nice to have it 100% English. Thanks.
January 8th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Why can’t you understand it? I’m not an English speaker, and could perfectly understood everything… much better should do an English speaker reader of this!!!
January 19th, 2008 at 1:07 pm
I can perfectly understand what is in the post.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Reply to Jeff
“# Jeff Says:
December 22nd, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Why, when I read this, does it feel to me that I am on acid or somethin? Did the person who typed this down a six pack first or what?”
No you babbling idiot. He is from a different country. His English isn’t well developed.