install flash drive

[sti]

Hi all i have recently bought a netbook but it does not have h.d.d,so i wanna use a flash drive as a h.d.d and install windows xp on it but i do not know how to do.
I wonder if some one helps me because it is very necessary to me
Thanks

 

[hang-the-9]

Widows was not made to be run off a removable drive, it won't let you install it on one. Get a hard-drive for the netbook.
Even if you could do it, the USB interface is a lot slower than the internal hard drive one, combined with the fact that you have a netbook which are normally slow to begin with, you will not want to use that computer that way.

What you CAN do is run a Linux Live CD off a flash drive. http://www.linuxliveusb.com/ Not windows but will do many things that you'd use a netbook for anyway.

 

[rflulling]

Hi all i have recently bought a netbook but it does not have h.d.d,so i wanna use a flash drive as a h.d.d and install windows xp on it but i do not know how to do.
I wonder if some one helps me because it is very necessary to me
Thanks

There are various ways to do this that involve utilities that helpo you to make the necessary hacks and tweaks. I can tell you that I have a version of a XP boot that was part of a utilties CD. Whatever they did to make XP work, they did well, and the whole thing runs great on my flash drive.

Linux also runs great on a flash drive, and there is a lot of support out there to make that possible.

I also have Windows 7 on a flash drive. Let me tell you it was time consuming to do the research and find some one who had a good tool and that that didn't require many jumps through hoops or strange virtual systems. However, Windows 7 on the flash drive is "Sluggish" and not ideal.

I cannot tell any one here how to get XP onto a drive. I did not create the XP installation I have and I do not know the legitimacy of the install, so I cannot distribute it. But what I can say for certain, is that YES, it is absolutely possible to install any version of Windows onto a flash drive. -Just NOT by default.