Booting a windows XP recovery disc from a flash drive or external hard drive

[racevedo]

My mother setup a win XP password and forgot it, I dont have an external CD drive so I need to setup a recovery disk on a Flash drive is this doable?

 

[makaveli2007]

yes i think you can install winxp from USB

here some guides chose one which will suite you

http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/install-windows-xp-using-usb-flash-disk.html

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/111406-how-to-install-xp-from-usb/

http://en.kioskea.net/faq/3065-installing-windows-xp-from-a-usb-key

http://liliputing.com/2008/04/install-windows-xp-on-mini-note-usb.html#

hops thats would help you