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Vancouver911
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« on: October 30, 2010, 04:51:48 PM »
my desktop computer is screwd and it wont load at all and i am trying to install windows xp on it with USB but i dont have CD drive to do that easy way i tryied wintoflash but its not working can anyone help
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« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2010, 05:05:30 PM »
Hi there Vancouver911

first in your bios boot menu dose it give the option to boot from usb mass storage devices ?

Secondly are you able to get a cd drive for your desktop and have it fitted

and also what make is the computer model ect did it come with a cdrom orignaly it only needs to read the cd

if the computer is shot and you need to reinstall your os and you have a cd would you be able to copy the information on another computer such as a friend nabough a relertive computer just to copy the files across wintoflash is brillant if you are able to do this kind regards

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« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2010, 05:23:10 PM »
my computer accepts USB mode but i dont have the CD i have downloaded a full version of windowsxp sp2 dose that helpp??
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« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2010, 05:26:15 PM »
When you say you have downloaded a full copy of windows xp SPK2 do you mean it is a brought copy or a torrant
if it is a oem genuinue copy then that would be good if not :(
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« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2010, 05:51:58 PM »
I would strongly recommend against using torrents not only do they carry viruses that infect the hard drive but you can get in to trouble for it do you have a rescue cd for it normally
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« Reply #5 on: November 03, 2010, 04:45:00 PM »
BJseal91 i do not know your most user friendly way of doing this but i would recommend
novicorp wintoflash
http://wintoflash.com/home/en/
its very strait forward
BACK UP ALL DATA befoure doing this becuse it will format your usb drive?
also with your ISO you must extract it or mount it.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwZDboRv6U" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SwZDboRv6U</a>
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« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2010, 01:07:17 AM »
I agree with you on wintoflash is excellent and I saved a copy and use it myself I is one of the newer video tutorials
but in regards to the question on how to get it on to the flash drive it needs a Cd which was stated the computer dose not have
if it did have a Cd then you could right the files across as you say using wintoflash there is no disk and only a torrent of it which I still stick to what I said before that you can get into trouble using torrents.

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« Reply #7 on: November 04, 2010, 06:26:35 AM »
Quote from: BJseal91 on November 04, 2010, 01:07:17 AM
I agree with you on wintoflash is excellent and I saved a copy and use it myself I is one of the newer video tutorials
but in regards to the question on how to get it on to the flash drive it needs a Cd which was stated the computer dose not have
if it did have a Cd then you could right the files across as you say using wintoflash there is no disk and only a torrent of it which I still stick to what I said before that you can get into trouble using torrents.

Kind Regards
 

ye you just exstract or mount the ISO and direct wintoflash to the folder or drive ?
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