Community Newsletter: Q&A: How do I easily create a bootable USB HD with WinXP on it?

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In reply to: Not from Microsoft. by R. Proffitt 

To: Not from Microsoft,

I read this forum's sticky but there's nothing that precludes anyone from asking a question like mine as you can see by reviewing the topics and their content posted in this forum. As well, in the header to the posting reply it has the following statement:

"Note: If you're asking for technical help, please be sure to include all your system info, including operating system, model number, and any other specifics related to the problem. Also please exercise your best judgment when posting in the forums--revealing personal information such as your e-mail address, telephone number, and address is not recommended."

Consequently, I don't think my question posted to this forum is inappropriate.

As well, I have looked at Bart PE and other potential methods to creating a bootable usb hard drive but, as I stated in the post you criticized, they are quite complicated and most people who have tried them have difficulties and most have been unsuccessful. I did try one method which involved using an HP utility and it resulted in causing my 2 1/2" usb hard drive to become invisible and I had to take the hard drive out of its case, connect it to the IDE cable inside the computer and reformat it. Now I am trying a method posted on Addonics' web site which used a DOS boot floppy. I hope that will work but I am not betting on it.