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A few days ago, my friend ask me to help her install laptop, Acer Aspire One (Intel Atom,Display 10" maybe, blah blah..), and I say yes. So I took the laptop home,and try to put my cd installation Windows XP, and guess what. I can't find the CD-ROM, that laptop didn't have CD tray. I kinda blank for a moment, my mind spinning around, should I used External CD-ROM ? Or try to grab the harddisk, or using flash disk ?
Then I remembered article about using Flashdisk as bootable to install Windows XP, I remembered the software called HP Storage USB Format Utility, but guess what, all I know that software only capable to format your flashdisk and partition it to make it bootable. But still I have to find a way to put my Windows XP into that laptop. Finally, I found that way after researching Google (Thanks Aunt Google).
This posting is purely not mine, so don't thank me.
Things you must have it first :
1. USB Flashdisk with at least 2 GB
2. Windows XP Installation Disk
3. Computer with CD-ROM to make Flashdisk become Windows XP USB Version.

Okay..Here we go..
1. Download Komku right here Rapidshare
2. Run it, and choose Install and you will get extracted files which is : BootSect.exe, PeToUSB, and Usb_Prep8
3. Plug your USB FlashDisk, and goto Komku extracted folder and locate PeToUSB

4. Run this PeToUSB and mark checkbox as picture below

5. Click Start and click Yes to Continue and Yes again to Start Format the USB Flashdisk (if your flashdisk contains any data,before you click Yes, you should backup first, since this procedure will erase all data on your flashdisk).
6. Wait till it finish and click OK, and click finish to close the program.



Now the next step is inserting the Windows XP into flashdisk.
7. Open Windows XP Command Prompt (Click Start->Run->cmd and press Enter), and put your Windows XP CD to your CD drive.

8. Goto folder bootsect, and type as picture shown below (note:I used F: as my flashdisk drive, if you have different drive, then change it).

9. After that, change your folder to usb_prep8
10. Type usb_prep8 and press Enter,
11. You will see something like this..

12. Make sure point (1-Change XP Source Path) point to your cdrom where you put Windows XP Installation CD.
13. Make sure point (2-Change VirtualTempDrive) point to a location where you don't have it in your My Computer, change it to other drive if you have that drive in your My Computer).
14. Make sure point (3-Change Target USB Drive) point to location where your flashdisk drive.
15. After all things set, choose no.4 and press Enter
16. The procedure is copying CD into temp drive and later make an ISO Windows XP onto your flashdisk.
17. When you see any question, just choose YES for any kind questions.
18. Voila (the process takes about 10 - 15 minutes), after that. Put your flashdisk into your new laptop and choose in your BIOS to set the boot order to USB Flashdisk.
19. There you have it, when the options for installation appears