Have *.tib fil - want to run image from USB
Is it possibel to make a Bootable USB stick from a *.tib (windows XP image) fil, sow I after can run and start windows XP from the USB ?


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Steve Smith wrote:Microsoft will not permit Windows to be run from any USB drives unless you have a Windows Ultimate license and can create a Windows to Go drive.
I know this is the case with recent versions of Windows, is it also the case with XP? I cannot remember.
Not sure why there is the need for XP booting from USB device. If you want to carry it around with you, you could creat XP in a virtural machine, and run it that way. That would allow you to tie-down XP as it its long term support expired some years ago and it is no longer a safe OS to have exposed to the world.
Ian
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Ian, the core question asked was about booting from a .TIB image on USB which definitely is not possible.
I have used Hiren's Boot CD lots over the years and this allows a mini-XP environment to be booted from a CD which could be migrated to a USB stick but even Hiren's has a limit of 24 hours before needing to be rebooted, which I believe is a limitation of Windows PE type environments.
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