Windows xp boot disk ntfs

Proceed with the installation. The setup program will then silently close, which might make you think that something went wrong. Don't worry though. Note: The above guide works with Windows XP only. Now create the USB media. Insert the USB drive you intend to boot from.

Instructions for doing so vary wildly from system to system, but generally entail the following: Reboot the system. Go to the section that contains your boot devices. Exit from the BIOS configuration, saving all changes. Have you correctly prepared the USB drive in step one? Restart the procedure. Does your USB drive properly support being booted from?

Try another one! Step 4: Prepping the Hard Disk You need to make sure that your hard drive is partitioned and formatted properly. To repartition and format This procedure will destroy any data on the hard drive : Click the icon on task bar to launch a command line Window.

Enter DiskPart to run the built-in disk management utility. For example, try the following: select disk 0 select the first disk. Run the following command: Run E:iwinnt Unplug USB drive during post stage. Change your BIOS settings back to boot from hard disk again as needed. You can now continue to finish setting up Windows XP. Although the words partition primary and volume are often thought of as being synonymous we may even use them as such here! I found that the total number of sectors in the file system was less than the total number of sectors in the volume, so the backup copy of the boot sector did not have to be allocated to a specific file.

The following table describes what the values in the "Hex Dump" above mean. Offsets for each field are taken from the beginning 00h of the Boot Record which is located at Absolute Sector 63 for the first partition on most hard disks. The green colored fields contain data that may vary from one computer to the next, whereas, the data in the red and gray fields should never vary between NTFS Systems. The data in the yellow colored fields might possibly be different under some circumstances, but normally should remain the same as shown below:.

This value must be a power of 2 that is greater than 0. Values of 1, 2, 4, 8 are quite common. This field is generally only relevant for media visible on interrupt 0x This field should always be zero on media that are not partitioned. Exactly what value is appropriate is operating system specific. See line: 7CCF in the Subroutine below. This value is supposed to be the number of physical sectors on the disk preceding the first sector of this volume; it's obvious why the first entry in a disk's partition table has a 63 here, but it will also be a 63 for each Logical volume on a disk since each Logical volume in an Extended Partition is preceded by its own Extended MBR.

Note: If you see a value of 29 1D hex in this field, it's most likely because the volume was created on a Dynamic Disk. Is it safe to change this value for booting a Windows OS? The value F6 hex which appears as decimal in many utility programs is in fact a negative 10 decimal. However , you obviously can not have a negative number of clusters! So, a negative number here is instead an indicator that the record length for any MFT File Record is: 2 to the power of the absolute value of this negative number; which of course, results in a positive number.

This number agrees perfectly with the MFT Record sizes we've seen on real disks. If the number is negative 0x80 to 0xFF , the size of the File Record is 2 raised to the absolute value of this number. It is interesting to note how the 3rd and 4th and 6th and 7th bytes repeat here! Do you have a Serial Number where these two sets of bytes are not the same? See below for an example screenshot.

The Second sector always begins with the 16 Hex bytes:. The next line begins with: "49 00 33 00 30 00" we have observed these same 10 hex bytes; which taken together are seen in ASCII as: "..

Your computer with Windows XP must have the floppy disk functioning. In the past it also contained several commercially available software programs, but since version 11 it almost entirely contains Freeware. For Comprehensive list of programs see below. This has to be one of the most useful things I have come across recently — it gives you a portable fast-loading stripped down copy of Windows XP that boots fast from a USB flash drive. You can boot a dead or malfunctioning system, copy data — such as valuable images and files — back to the USB flash drive.

Problem solved! You were right Surferdude! FAT32 was the way to go. Worked like a charm! Haven't converted to NTFS yet, but don't see that becoming a problem. Thanks for the tip! Thank you for posting your results so others can share.

I see no big downside other than the loss of some multi-user security features. I didn't need those anyway.