Install Windows XP on the Asus Eee PCInstalling Windows XP on the Asus EEE pc using a single USB flash drive. Please note this tutorial works on all computers not just the Asus EEE PC. To complete this tutorial you need a 3. Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC. What you'll need: USB. We lead the pack! More formats, more camera models supported, from Windows XP SP3 to Windows 10, all editions 32 and 64 bit: you can't go wrong with the. Windows 3.1x/95/98/NT/2000/ME/XP/2003/Vista/2008/7/8/8.1/2012 Power Toys + Tweaking Tools Description: The Windows XP Service Pack 2 (XP SP2) fixes a range of bugs in Windows XP. The file is a large download and can be applied to any version of Windows XP.
What this part does is write the correct boot sector to your USB stick, this allows your PC to boot from the USB stick without it nothing works. Please note: When running the bootsect. USB stick, if you have a window open bootsect. If all went well you should see . A folder browse window will open for you to browse to the location of you XP setup files (aka your cdrom drive with xp cd in)Press 2 and enter a letter not currently assigned to a drive on your PCPress 3 and enter the drive letter of your USB stick. Press 4 to start the process. The script will ask you if its ok to format drive T. This is just a temp drive the program creates to cache the windows installation files. Press Y then enter. Once it's done formating press enter to continue again, you can now see the program copying files to the temp drive it created. Once this is done press enter to continue again. Next you will see a box pop up asking you to copy the files to USB drive yes/no you want to click yes. Once the script has completed copy files a popup window asking if you would like to USB drive to be preferred boot drive U: select YES on this window. Now select yes to unmount the virtual drive. Ok we are done the hard part, close the usbprep. Now make sure your EEE pc is configured with USB as the primary boot device. Insert your USB drive and boot up the EEE. On the startup menu you have two options, select option number 2 for text mode setup. From this point on it is just like any other windows XP installation delete/recreate the primary partition on your EEE pc and format it using NTFS. Make sure you delete ALL partitions and recreate a single partition or you will get the hal. Once the text mode portion of setup is complete it will boot into the GUI mode (you can press enter after the reboot if your too excited to wait the 3. Once the GUI portion of setup is complete you will again have to boot into GUI mode this will complete the XP installation and you will end up at you XP desktop. It is very important that you DO NOT REMOVE THE USB STICK before this point. Once you can see your start menu it is safe to remove the usb stick and reboot your pc to make sure everything worked. This method has advantages over all current no cdrom methods of installing XP to the EEE. You do not have to copy setup files in DOS to the SSD and install from there. It gives you access to the recovery console by booting into text mode setup, and it gives you the ability to run repair installations of XP if you have problems later on. I hope this worked out for you and please post feedback to the comments section. Please note due to the amount of comments this article has received you must now click on.
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