If you want 
to install windows xp on your pc and you feel that your CD drive is not 
working properly or you have no any optical drive to install windows, 
than you  can prepare a USB device for installation of windows XP, vista
 or  7. This is very easy and simple way to make a boot able usb. 
Normally all notebooks have the option in the BIOS to boot from USB. 
Many other mother boards like intel 865, 915, 965 etc has also option to
 boot from USB device. So it is very simple and easy way to install XP 
on you computer. 
To make a 
bootable usb, first of all you will install a software "wintoflash". you
 can easily download this software from the web. The size of this 
software is approximately 17MB. Install it on your computer and then 
start this program. It has two different paths. In first browse option 
you will select windows XP disk and in second browse option, select your
 Pen drive/USB. Click next to proceed. It will copy all files of windows
 xp from CD to USB. Now click finish. It is complete. Now you can use 
this USB for installation of windows.
 
 

