When you bought your PC or laptop, it probably already came with Windows pre-activated, which means that you could use the computer out-of-the-box without having to enter your Windows licence key from Microsoft or needing to activate the machine. However, when you reinstall Windows, you will need a Windows licence key.
You can usually find this taped somewhere on your computer sometimes on the underside or back of the computer. Without this, you won't get far in the installation. Some manufacturers provide you with the device drivers for your system on a CD that comes with your system. Others require you to go to their website and download these drivers.
Whichever the case may be, make sure you have all your drivers handy before you start. Do not leave them on your hard disk, since your clean installation of Windows will probably wipe out everything on your hard disk. If your computer has SATA, IDE, SCSI or other mass storage devices for your hard disks that the Windows installer does not recognize out of the box, you will need to create a floppy disk with the drivers for that device.
At the appropriate time, when Windows prompts you to hit F6 to load the drivers from a floppy disk, you will need to so. This is however outside the scope of this tutorial. If your manufacturer has not provided you with any device drivers, or if you have lost the drivers CD or DVD that the vendor has provided you, all is not lost.
You can try using a device driver backup program to extract the existing drivers on your currently running system. You can get a device driver backup program from the Free Device Driver Backup and Extraction Utilities page on thefreecountry. In such cases, you need the manufacturers' textmode drivers which the driver backup utility will not recreate. You can of course use other software, but since it is difficult for me to write a tutorial that covers every possible burning software around, this guide will assume that you are using ImgBurn.
Since the software is available free of charge, I doubt that this choice will pose significant hardship for anyone. The easiest way to get this is to download the file wxp In fact, you should do this now. Download the file and save it on your desktop. You will need the file later. Update : the site mentioned in the previous paragraph is no longer available, and I don't know any reliable alternative locations that provide it.
I would also strongly suggest that you make a backup image of your entire system before you reinstall it. By entire system, I mean the whole system and not just your data. This is important in case there is some glitch in your installation or some fault in the setup CD that you create, resulting in an unusable system.
In such a situation, you will be able to restore your working system from your backup image. If you are not sure what a backup image is, or think that I'm only talking about saving your documents to another location, or worse, think that "image" refers to some sort of picture, please do not carry on with this procedure. If you are tinkering with your system, you owe it to yourself and your sanity to get a good hard disk image backup program. It is possible that it does not work - for example, if your vendor has deleted some essential file in the I folder which we will need , your installation may well fail at some crucial point after it has formatted your hard disk!
It is also possible that my procedure will not work on your system, or that I made some mistake in describing it here. So do it all at your own risk. And make sure you have an up-to-date backup of your system that you know works. Actually, you can name it anything you want and put it anywhere you like, but for ease of explanation, the remainder of the steps below will assume that you have created the XPSETUP folder in the root of drive C:.
Notice that I said "copy", not "move". It is important to work from a copy of the I directory so that if you make mistakes, you can simply go back and start all over again. If you move the directory or drag and drop it, and you make a mistake, your mistake will be permanent. It may take a while for the copy operation to complete, but it's safer this way.
If you're not sure how to copy, follow the following procedure: Highlight the I folder using Windows Explorer. Right-click the folder and select "Copy". The folder should be empty at the moment. Right click the empty space in the window and click "Paste". A very lengthy copy procedure will take place. There might be some paid tools that help to create a bootable USB, but these tools are really helpful as one can create a bootable USB in a few steps.
All these utilities are absolutely free to download and use. With this tool one can create a bootable USB pen drive with a single-click. However, things have moved on, and for the first time, Microsoft has begun to sell Windows 10 on pre-configured USB drives. Previous versions of the OS XP, 7 and 8.
Creating a bootable Windows USB drive used to be a chore, but today, one solution can pretty-well suit most people. However, there are times when a flash drive has some quirk that prevents it from working with a particular solution, so for that reason, this article takes a look at five different methods. Even if the target desktop or notebook has an optical drive, there are a couple of reasons to consider first creating a USB-based installer.
Admittedly, the time and effort of creating the drive might make it best-suited for system builders, but for people like us, who juggle test machines, USB is a no-brainer. To start, USB media is more durable than disc-based media. Discs can be easily scratched, while well-built USB flash drives can generally handle a bit of abuse.
Ever walk around with a disc in your pocket? It looks a bit odd. To give an overview of what to expect from each solution, refer to this success table:. For starters, modern UEFI-equipped machines are not designed to support such an old OS, so chances are that it will not even install, or even be detected in the first place.
If the motherboard in question happens to support a legacy BIOS mode, then it might work. Different version of Rufus explained later have better luck with the XP process than others. We strongly suggest you skip to the dedicated part of this article that explains the problems with Windows XP and USB support. What about Windows Vista?
But first…. Some solutions listed on this page require a Windows disc image. ISOs are available from a number of sources, but most people will acquire them after purchasing the OS online through Microsoft, or through some other related Microsoft service.
Only the ISOs directly supplied by Microsoft would have static hashes. How the image was captured as well will have an effect on how the final boot drive turns out, so stick to official sources where possible.
Other tools exist that accomplish the same thing, but these are the only ones we can personally recommend. However, we prefer Rufus because we find it loads a lot quicker, and feels a bit faster, too.
For a great many reasons, this is still our preferred method of creating USB boot drives. To load the Windows. NOTE: As the program will state, doing this will erase all data off of the flash drive — so backup first. If you have any issues, be sure to check out our Common Problems section below.
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