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MAME owes italie many thank yous, hah
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12/17/11 06:02 AM
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> I followed an online tutorial on how to copy the Windows XP install disc to a USB
> flash drive along with the boot sector and all that was required to make it run... in
> the end, it didn't work.
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> So I did more research to see if other people had run into the same problem.
> Ultimately, I wasted about 5 hours of researching only to find out that some
> motherboard/flash drive combinations don't jive when it comes to booting the system.
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> So I spent $20 to get a USB DVD-ROM drive from NewEgg. Wish I would have done that
> initially as the drive has actually come in handy several times.
I managed to get a USB install to work once, but it took forever. Save yourself a lot of headache and get a USB DVD drive.
(Dell 270SX, took 3 thumb drives and 9 hours. Didn't help that I was installing onto a CF card either...)
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