format winxp using a usb device

[mayank27]

is it possible to format win xp using a pen drive?how?
i did format vista, and there was no problem.but got messed up with xp

[timon]

it is possible to format windows xp to format from usb you need to have windows xp bootable usb key so you need to creat it check here How Do I Create Unattended Windows XP Bootable?

[Calvin K]

First see your motherboard supports booting from a USB device in your bios , under the start up order. Take the windows cd to the drive and startup with usb in the boot order before hdd . If it doesn't work, you have to create boot disk and dos usb driver to load it the 16 bit installer it will be located in the i386 folder on the drive

[MrChris-]

Get the solution.rar file unzip the file on drive C, you need a folder named C:\Dos insert your pen drive,locate the folder C:\Dos and run HpUSBformat.exe file in order to auto detect the pen drive
- now the pendrive with bootable dos on it is ready.Copy all other files from C:/Dos to your pendrive. your pendrive should look like that
insert Windows Xp cd copy all files from CD to pendrive.
Boot your laptop with pendrive Type sys d: and hit enter
- if you see system transferred - you have luck, FAT32 filesystem on drive C:, you will not lose your data
now reboot machine without pen drive type cd i386 and hit enter also type winnt press enter

good luck......