Installing Vista from a USB Hard Drive (20 GB)

Hello,

For some reason my bios does not recognize my IDE DVD Burner so I can't install the Vista DVD.. I've found online that there's a way to copy the disc to a USB Drive and do the installation that way.
However, one of the lines of code in the tutorial for DISKPART (http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry) involves the FORMAT command , which I don't have in my version of DISKPART (Current OS is XP) .
Right now the bios does not recognize the USB HD as a valid boot but instead says to "remove media" or something of that fashion (meaning he could read the drive but doesn't find any bootable info on it, despite the fact I used Xcopy to copy my Vista CD to the USB Drive ,after formatting it to FAT32 using the windows util).

Please, please (as I am getting desperate here) , How do I get this thing to boot from the USB Harddrive and also install Vista from it?

Thank you very much in advance!

Dana Berliner

Well, you can do this sence your running XP so whut you wanna do is DOWNLOAD a torrent of YOUR copy of windows HOME Basic ECT. and use DEAMON TOOLS LIte to mount the image (iso) and to make it NOT illegal Use YOUR CD KEY xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx ECT and there you go!
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