Booting From USB

[rolanddes]

Hello Everyone..

I have a few things in my mind if which i wanna know can be done.

1- I have an 8 gb sandisk usb pen drive formatted in FAT32.
2- I have my windows xp in iso format
3- I have Hiren's boot cd.
4- I have portable virtualbox and a windows xp image for that.


With these I basicly want to be able to boot my computer from that drive. But I want to be able use all of them at the same time. I mean that I want to get a menu like that:

1- Run windowsxp.iso
2- Run Hiren's boot cd.iso
3- Run windows xp with virtualbox


Is there anyway to do that?


Ps: Hiren has smthg here about booting his cd from a pen drive which did not work for me. I had a file missing error (http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd-on-usb-disk)

 

[number13]

Does the motherboard support USB boot?, why do you want to use a USB install? it's slower than dirt, I am assuming that you don't want to put a CD ROM in the system, which I don't understand either, Nero, Magic Disk, Daemon Tools and Ultra Disk will burn the ISO into a bootable CD, saves a lot of trouble

 

[rolanddes]

My mainboard supports usb boot. I just want to be able to carry it in a pen drive. My cd-rom drive does not seem to last long..