Actually very easily. You going to be looking for a program called booting from USB iso. I believe the website is portableapps DOTcom IF I'M NOT mistaken..
BY THE WAY THROUGH Google SEARCH YOU'RE GOING TO COME UP TO THAT WEBSITE THAT I MENTIONED So what it does is it uses your USB port which installs Windows XP on your USB drive. Therefore you do not need a internal hard drive or hard drive at all. As I can see from the other answer you have been greatly misinformed. So once you locate the file and you get the iso and install it or I meant download it onto the thumb drive. You select it with the program that I mentioned. You set your boot up for your USB and your bias even if that's even needed in some cases other cases may not May automatically try all the ports for a boot. F12 generally or f10? As you're booting up you got to get into your bias change your booting order make sure that it starts with at least utilizes in the mood order your USB port. Do not have the hard drive above that otherwise it's going to stop there. You want hard drive lower on the boot in the bias. Well glad it helped and if you need more information just get a Facebook for that group called Windows XP 2024 and beyond. Have yourself a great day and I had to be of a actual help
Find a computer where you can add a password in the bios. Doing so, you can setup your bios to boot from hard drive first before booting from the DVD drive. No windows install DVD will be able to re install windows since the hard drive will boot first.Then, in windows, setup you account as admin and add a password for it if there is no password. Setup a guest account for other windows users. That's it.
Assuming your Compaq laptop has a USB port or two, just plug in the new drive with the USB cable. It will show up as another drive, using the first available drive letter, in Windows Explorer (or equivalent).
I have a toshiba Satellite l40 laptop it came with no operating system and i am planning to install windows xp but when I try to install xp it says no hard drives found
Yes. Actually, there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP on it as well. Note: Yes, you can there is no need to remove the hard drive. You can format the existing hard drive and install XP. and also you can install both opreting system single computer. XP and vista both.
Did you install Windows XP to the hard drive? New hard drives do not come with an operating system; to boot from it, you have to install one on it.
If you are trying to install xp, you have format the hard drive prior installation. If you trying to reinstall Vista, check your hard drive for bad sectors. Make sure that the installation CD/DVD is readable (just try to copy all content on your hard drive).
You can install Windows 7 from optical drive (CD, DVD), hard drive (a local copy), network or USB device.
This will not perform a direct upgrade. It will remove everything from the hard drive and install Windows 7. You must re-install all of your programs.
If it has the minimum RAM and hard drive space, you can.
There is no upgrade path from Windows ME to Windows 2000. You would have to reformat the hard drive to remove ME before you install Windows 2000 from scratch.
It depends on type of Windows 8 installer. If it is update, you need Windows OS preinstalled. If it is full installer, you can install it on a bard hard drive.
Create two partitions in ur hard drive and install Windows '98 on Drive C and install Windows 2000 on Drive D to another partition.