When booting from the USB stick, you need to leave your boot sequence to boot from hard drive first (otherwise the assignment of drive letters goes off). Leave the boot sequence as is, but during startup pressing F12 allows you to over-ride the boot sequence and you can choose USB as the temporary boot device. This has to be done for a total of
3. For W7 and W8 (should work same) - You can definitely use xcopy in WinPE to do this - you can't do it in Windows while it is running because of file locking. Boot to WinPE and xcopy the root of C:\ to another disk. After copied, delete C:\Boot\BCD (file). Then run bcdboot C:\windows /s D:
9. XP's setup sees OEM, retail and volume CDs and installs as different and so does not offer the repair option. If you copy the CD, altering the data in the setupp.ini file you can "create" a disk of the right type; there are some other differences between the disks, but I can't remember what they are - and in your case are probably irrelevant

Alternatively, navigate to Start > All programs >Accessories > right click on Command Prompt and select run as administrator. Step 3: When the Command Prompt opens, enter the following command: DISKPART. LIST DISK. Once you enter the LIST DISK command, it will show the disk number of your USB drive.

Open the Dell Backup and Recovery Manager software by searching it (or go to Start > All Programs and find the folder). You can type “ recovery ” in Windows 8 Search Charm to find the software. Click on Recovery Media. Dell Backup and Recovery Manager screenshot in Windows 8.

Double-click the XPE cab file that you downloaded earlier. This is the file named "xpe-1.0.7.cab" or the like. Drag all the files in the window that appears to the empty "xpe" folder that you opened in the previous step. Click the up arrow on the Explorer window until you are viewing the "rescue" folder again.

The Windows Automatic Repair may recover certain boot process related errors in some cases. Here are the steps to access the Automatic Repair from an install disc: Boot from Windows install disc; Click Next in the setup page after selecting proper language, time and keyboard input; Click Repair your computer and select Troubleshoot; Click on Windows XP Professional Floppy Boot Disk Image is the original Windows XP Professional, SP1, and SP2 boot disks. Download Windows XP Professional Floppy Boot Disk Image - MajorGeeks < H OME | T UTORIALS | D ONATE | W EB TOOLS | Y OUTUBE | N EWSLETTER | D EALS! | F ORUMS | >

Once you have created the iso, download Rufus and run it. Opt out of any update check. Click iso image in the lower dropdown box. Click the folder icon and browse to the iso file you created

Click Browse and select the downloaded Windows XP ISO file. Plug in a pen drive with at least 1GB free space to your computer. All data on this pen drive will be erased so make sure you have a backup. In ISOtoUSB, select the pen drive from the drop-down menu. Click the checkbox next to Bootable.

The disk must be selected as boot source in bios. Disk must contain valid MBR (first sector of disk). Disk must contain partition marked as active. Active partition must contain Bootsector that can load bootloader. Different bootsectors for different bootloaders. Windows XP bootsector is called nt52, Windows Vista and higher is called nt60.

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