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Female Liu   01-26-2012 at 06:52:49 PM

hello
i have a stupid question to ask.
is it possible to install and run windows xp off a 16gb usb flash drive?

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WyomingKnott   01-27-2012 at 06:30:36 PM

Possible? yes. Why would you want to; it would run so slowly? That's not a rhetorical question; for instance, I have a thumb drive that can boot five different repair / diagnostic environments.

Here's one article about doing it: http://www.techrepublic.com/articl [...] ve/5928902 . Note that the motherboard and BIOS do need to support booting from a USB port.

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ram1009   01-27-2012 at 06:56:35 PM

If you're thinking about running more than one computer off the same copy of XP by using a USB drive forget it unless the computers are identical in every way and can be kept that way for ever. XP adapts itself to the environment in which it's installed. Moving the OS from one environment to another would cause major problems. More problems than the cost of a new OS, especially XP which I'm sure is cheap right now.

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jeremo   01-28-2012 at 04:52:53 AM

Female Liu wrote :

hello
i have a stupid question to ask.
is it possible to install and run windows xp off a 16gb usb flash drive?


no i dont think so

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