There is so much discussion on trying to boot XP (and other OS's including BartPE) 
of a usb drive. 

Are there disk manger programs that could be installed on a USB drive to trick the 
drive into think the USB drive is an IDE drive?  If XP or other Windows OSes "thinks" 
the USB is an IDE drive, you should be able to install XP, 2000 ect.

This would be a similar concept from 10 years ago when old 486's needed a disk manager 
to read HDD over 512MB.

Tip: Run a free scan for common Windows errors ad

re: Disk Manager: USB to IDE Monday, August 21, 2006 at 6:31 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) Puppy Linux will boot from most any media, as long as the bios for the computer will allow it. I even booted Puppy from a SD Memory card. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disk Manager: USB to IDE Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 10:12 am Posted by George (25 messages posted) I have been able to boot XP (Full) not just BartPe from a USB drive. It works! Modifications are made to the XP i386 set up files: usbstor.inf usbport.inf usb.inf DOSNET.INF TXTSETUP.SIF Here is the link. The info was compiled from the 911 forum. http://www.ngine.de/index.jsp?pageid=4176 [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disk Manager: USB to IDE Wednesday, August 23, 2006 at 4:05 pm Posted by Steve (23810 messages posted) One of the forum regulars,though I forget who, has a Thumb Drive that will Boot BartPE. Must be info somewhere on the Net about it. I never had any real interest in booting Bart, or XP from usb drives, so never tried it. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Disk Manager: USB to IDE Thursday, August 24, 2006 at 8:31 am Posted by George (25 messages posted) BartPe or any other XP based PE tool is a must have for anybody looking for an emergency repair or pre-installation environment. You can pretty well throw away all your Dos and Windows 9X utilities. Of course, if you have Linux (Knoppix ), that's good too. I've seen individuals to rescue/fix dead XP from Knoppix. Personally, I'm nervous on using non-Windows NT (2000/XP) based tools to write anaything to NTFS. If you are going to a write anything to an NTFS drive, a Windows PE tool is your safest bet because it uses the same i386 XP system files. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum