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Use our miniPSS tool to get
enhanced hotkeys in PSS.
miniPSS is an EXE wrapper
for PSS on Windows XP/7.
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Use our miniPSS tool to get
enhanced hotkeys in PSS.
miniPSS is an EXE wrapper
for PSS on Windows XP/7.
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USB Setup USB Boot
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Sept 9th, 2010
This creates a Bootable USB Drive for Windows XP Setup.
Based of the popular USB_Multiboot method.
Also see USB XP Setup Information & Scripts.
** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK **
This uses the HP USB Dos format tool and is copyright HP.
That tool is no longer available on the HP site so it is included in this download.
You must accept the HP End User License which is also included.
Read Me
• Download the attached package, unzip, and run the EXE.
• Select your USB drive from the drop down list then click START.
• Select the path of your XP Setup source.
• Once you have selected a valid path for the XP Setup source it will automatically begin the process.
• In this version there is no cancel so please be certain your USB drive and XP Setup source is correct.
• The USB drive will be formatted and files will be copied to it.
• Once the process is completed, the USB drive will be bootable for XP Setup.
• A full XP Setup source can take a while to copy to the drive.
• This can also be used as a Windows XP USB Recovery setup.
Technical
The process is as follows:
• Create temp folder
• Run Format.com and dismount USB drive
• Run HP DOS Format tool and make USB drive bootable
• In this case it uses empty text files named as the dos boot files.
• Run BootSect to make NT Bootable
• Create the ~BT Folder from the users Source
• Copy all boot files to the USB Drive
• Create bootsector for boot.ini and save on USB drive
• At this point the USB disk is bootable for Windows Recovery Console.
• Ask the user whether they want to continue making the XP Setup disk.
• If they do not then the program will finish.
• If they do then it will continue to copy the XP Setup source to the USB drive.
• It will also copy additional files used during setup and for final cleanup.
• Remove temp folder
Download the package: Download ZIP