[sedhm]

Thank You Kadosh you made my day!

[NuMystic]

Are there clear directions posted anywhere on creating a SL/XP dual boot system using only USB flash drives without a PC?

I already have a successful SL install on my mini 10v, but the XP install outlined by Kadosh and the original poster both rely on a bootable external DVD drive.

Unfortunately my DVD drive isn't being recognized during booting, and Googling only turns up PC based prepping of flash drives for XP installs.

Any insights and help would be appreciated.

[nedcook]

I have SL installed on my Dell Mini 10v and would like now to redo it as a dual boot with the original XP Home that came with the computer. I've looked at some of the guides on this site for doing this, but I don't have an external CD/DVD drive. Is it possible to create a USB stick or USB hard drive with the XP install? I have a PC running Vista Home Premium if that helps.

[NuMystic]

Anyone???

[sylmini]

I tried different ways to get SL / XP dual booting. The only way I was successful was using an external CD/DVD to install XP. The usb method of installing XP only seems to work for single partition (this is from my experience.) Perhaps there is a way to do a usb installation of xp on a dual partition, but if you want to avoid the headaches borrow an external dvd from a friend or just buy one.

[NuMystic]

Originally Posted by sylmini

I tried different ways to get SL / XP dual booting. The only way I was successful was using an external CD/DVD to install XP. The usb method of installing XP only seems to work for single partition (this is from my experience.) Perhaps there is a way to do a usb installation of xp on a dual partition, but if you want to avoid the headaches borrow an external dvd from a friend or just buy one.

Unfortunately, neither is an option. If I knew someone with an external DVD that would work I'd have used it already, and I can't afford to buy a 2nd optical drive just for the installation... I already have one, but it won't work for this installation.

If anyone else can respond with regards to USB installs of XP I'd be enormously appreciative. TIA

[Digitaldr]

or do what I did - buy one from a store with a generous returns policy.

[eemerkacken]

---------- Post added at 06:19 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:46 PM ----------

Originally Posted by sylmini

I tried different ways to get SL / XP dual booting. The only way I was successful was using an external CD/DVD to install XP. The usb method of installing XP only seems to work for single partition (this is from my experience.) Perhaps there is a way to do a usb installation of xp on a dual partition, but if you want to avoid the headaches borrow an external dvd from a friend or just buy one.

The Useful-Software-for-Netbooks Thread

under "windows only" there is a program listet named winsetupfromusb. I often used it and it´s just the same as booting from the cd, but faster. Always worked, and i have 4 partitions on my HDD. Hope i helped

[milobloom]

I just went through my own saga with getting XP and Snow Leopard to dual boot.. this thread and this one were very useful to me.

I had the luxury of an already-hackintoshed MSI Wind to build my USB drives for installation.. nothing I did on my PC would boot properly for the MacOS install. This was the biggest issue that I had - getting the install media to work.

Then I fought with trying to get XP to install on a GUID partitioned hard drive. Snow Leopard would install fine; XP would do the first part of the install and then crap out after the first reboot no matter what I did.

I ended up using information from the second thread I mention above to modify my OSX installation USB key to allow Snow Leopard to install on an MBR partitioned hard drive, rather than insisting on a GUID partition. (Perhaps Netbook Bootmaker would have done this for me? Not sure.) This allowed me to install SL, then install XP with no problems. I installed NBI 0.8.3 for starters, then downloaded and installed the 10.6.2 combo update, and reinstalled the latest NBI (0.8.4 RC2 I think), which I know is not the correct sequence but it worked anyway. All working fine.. many thanks to the good people posting information on this forum.

I have to say, all things considered, a Mini 10v works a whole lot more nicely for hackintoshing than my MSI Wind U120. Too bad the Mini 10v belongs to a friend of mine!

cheers,
Milo

[tiuno]

Check out my own thread I had a really easy and quick install and no problem of MBR or changing any instalation file and no cd drive just a couple of usb drives one for the Mac OS X installation and onther one for the XP installation plus a comptuer runing Mac OS X with DVD drive and another runing windows with a dvd drive too a real mac with booth camp will make it great!

My thread.
Dual Boot Snow Leopard/Windows XP Home Edition.
Just message me if help needed!