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Kman-Sweden:
I think your motherboard/BIOS also need to support USB boot...?

boxman:

--- Quote from: Kman_Sweden on July 30, 2009, 11:21:50 am ---I think your motherboard/BIOS also need to support USB boot...?

--- End quote ---

Yep, your PC must support usb boot. Every PC I have tried it with works apart from my main PC which is about 6/7 years old now.

Ginsu Victim:
I'd found a program to boot from USB on motherboards that don't support it, but I lost it when my hard drive crashed. Wish I knew what it was....

boxman:

--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on July 30, 2009, 03:14:25 pm ---I'd found a program to boot from USB on motherboards that don't support it, but I lost it when my hard drive crashed. Wish I knew what it was....

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That would be really handy. It would save me from burning a ton of cds that I only ever really use once. How did it work? Was it a bootable cd that then boots from the usb drive or something?

Turnarcades:
Nlite is definitely the way to go, particularly as you can mod the XP installation to automatically install drivers and copy folders to the hard drive, meaning you could copy all your backed up games/music/movies back to the PC as part of the standard installation.

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