Since you have a big USB drive you can go with anything from windows 7 and up,those were made to start from usb as well. Xp can be made to run from USB but it's a lot of hassle and not guaranteed. Is there any way of putting Windows XP and booting it from a flash drive?Įdit: I have a TOSHIBA 64GB USB Drive (2.0) The next day I boot my laptop a BSOD appears (cannot say the error because everything before windows logon is on the laptop screen)and then the laptop restarts.After the second BSOD I could barely read 'repair' and I thought this is my chance of (blindly) repairing my HDD.After 20 minutes of waiting and hdd sounds it loaded but I tried everything and nothing worked so I dumped the idea of hdd repair.Īfter some research i found out that I could use a USB drive to boot windows directly.

But after ~8hrs of playing i started to hear hdd sounds but I ignored it. Then I used a TV(through HDMI,1360x768) for windows and it worked like a charm. I have a MSI GX60 1AC (with windows 8.1) and my display got cracked because of me. NOTE: I do NOT want a Windows installer,I want the entire windows to boot from usb drive

I already tried Windows 7-10 and they work but the 'Starting Windows' takes too much time (more than 30 min)

Win2Usb gives a bootloader error before starting and Easy2Boot boots the ISO file with the virtual hdd instead of setup Before starting: I tried Win2Usb and Easy2Boot already

Win xp usb installer