generic bootable usb stick?

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Is it possible to create a generic bootable usb stick based on
embedded xp?
that is will at least support the keyboard and have a command shell?
thanks
black_13
 
Yes, it is possible. I have an XPe image that is set up to boot off a USB stick that I can boot with on pretty much any PC.

Although WinPE may suit better for that purpose. Only advantage of XPe vs WinPE there is that you can tweak your XPe image in much
easier way and minimize the footprint. The same is possible with WinPE but just takes longer since you will have to operate with
registry directly and remove unnecessary Dlls manually.
 
Yes, it is possible. I have an XPe image that is set up to boot off a USB stick that I can boot with on pretty much any PC.

Although WinPE may suit better for that purpose. Only advantage of XPe vs WinPE there is that you can tweak your XPe image in much
easier way and minimize the footprint. The same is possible with WinPE butjust takes longer since you will have to operate with
registry directly and remove unnecessary Dlls manually.

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what minimum starting components would you recomend for a bootable usb
stick?
thanks
black_13
 
You may want to start with:
USB 2.0 Boot
Minlogon demo
Standard PC [HAL]
and resolve thier devpendencies.

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Regards,
KM

Yes, it is possible. I have an XPe image that is set up to boot off a USB stick that I can boot with on pretty much any PC.

Although WinPE may suit better for that purpose. Only advantage of XPe vs WinPE there is that you can tweak your XPe image in much
easier way and minimize the footprint. The same is possible with WinPE but just takes longer since you will have to operate with
registry directly and remove unnecessary Dlls manually.

--
=========
Regards,
KM




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what minimum starting components would you recomend for a bootable usb
stick?
thanks
black_13
 
Yes, it is possible. I have an XPe image that is set up to boot off a USB stick that I can boot with on pretty much any PC.
Although WinPE may suit better for that purpose. Only advantage of XPe vs WinPE there is that you can tweak your XPe image in much
easier way and minimize the footprint. The same is possible with WinPE but just takes longer since you will have to operate with
registry directly and remove unnecessary Dlls manually.
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Hi,

XPe stick work, but... As I have tested, some motherboards (from
GIGABYTE manufacturer with Intel 945 chipset and newer) didn't boot
from stick, and hang after detecting him. Probably somethings wrong in
generated MBR (GIGABYTE support say - it's MS problem). Same stick
boot OK on Intel, ASUS and some other motherboards. Same stick with
some Linux booting OK on all motherboards.

Slavo Tomascik
 
black_13 said:
Is it possible to create a generic bootable usb stick based on
embedded xp?
that is will at least support the keyboard and have a command shell?
thanks
black_13
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Thought I would mention that 128gb USB flash drives are now "out", at least
in Beijing. My son and a friend picked one up for $39 USD two days ago
while vacationing there and brought it back to the USA. There were 320gb
also available supposedly. That is a lot of storage, more than many
laptops. I have a couple of 1gb solid state drive "replacements" that plug
into the IDE connector on a motherboard. We use them for booting command
line Linux with no swapping file. Possibly the $39 one he got was an
engineering sample that managed to pass the 100,000 erase test. It was Sony
VAIO labeled. I told him it might not survive to many more erasing.
 
Depends on what boot stage it hung on.
It is was ntldr/ntdetect you may be able to get some more debug info if you use debug version of ntdetect for USB boot - USBNTD.CHK.
 
Depends on what boot stage it hung on.
It is was ntldr/ntdetect you may be able to get some more debug info if you use debug version of ntdetect for USB boot - USBNTD.CHK.
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It's some time ago. As I remember, bios write on screen only "Disk
error" message.

ST
 
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