Install Windos XP using USB Flash Drive

It's not just XP that you can install via a USB drive. If I'm not wrong, you can also install Windows 7 via USB drive (the instructions and installers are obviously different). I generally install Linux on my netbooks though, cause it's so much easier to manage that way.

yeah usb flash drive really helps to manage the no DVD/CD drive situation . Microsoft has released a tool to install Windows 7. But a third pary application called wintousb does the job easily .More details can be found here http://sharepress.org/installing-windows-using-a-usb-flash-drive.html thanks for the discussion....

change the bios so the first one that will boot is your flash drive.

alright installing on windows xp was i never try. i want to try this but im scared with this may be it has a wrong information.

here is the solution to install XP using flash drive.before some days i installed XP using pendrive and after mobile mmc,but it is true.you need a software called "WinSetupFromUSB",by using this i made my pendrive and mmc bootable,and did process step by step according to its software.then i installed XP successfully.also by this software you can install not only XP but Vista as per process. more info www.tipsfuninfo.blogspot.com/2009/12/win-to-flash-2009.html any problem pm me i will provide you full process.

there are external cd/dvd drive available in market and they can be connected via USB. why don't you buy one and install in via that one

Or you can try an external CD/DVD drive. That's a better idea in my opinion because you're actually using the windows disc itself. There are a number of laptops that don't have optical drives and external ones are the answer to that.