In all cases the target internal hard disk partition was quick formatted as NTFS. When I reformatted the same USB stick as NTFS however, the same stage took just over 4 minutes! When I tried to install XP from a WinToFlash USB stick on my Asus EeePC 904, the first copy files stage took over 79 minutes to copy the files from the USB drive to the internal hard disk!įormatted using the WinToFlash FAT16LBA option took almost 8 minutes. WinToFlash formats the USB stick as FAT32.

If you have already tried WinToFlash but got an ' NTLDR is missing - Press any key to restart' error, or it would not boot correctly, or you find the installation of XP (1st stage copy files in text mode) verrrrry slow, you might like to try this method which greatly speeds up installation and may make it more reliable on a wider range of systems. In this Tutorial, I will just deal with Windows XP installations. WinToFlash can copy the contents of a Windows Install ISO or CD/DVD to a USB flash drive so that you can boot from the USB drive and install Windows to a target system (e.g.

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