How to make a bootable USB flash drive?

Many PC users often began to useflash drives to install Windows XP instead of boot disks. This is due to the fact that the flash drive takes up less space, is easy to use and has more memory. In addition, it is convenient to carry in your pocket or bag, and you can also share your OS with friends.

About how to make a bootable usb-stick with Windows XP using a third-party program, will be described below.

Creating a bootable USB flash drive

To create a bootable flash drive, you can use a third-party convenient program UltraISO. To do this, follow the simple instructions:

1. Before you write to the flash drive OS image, you need to format it.
2. Download and install the UltraISO program from the creators site. The program has a trial period, which also has the functionality of creating a bootable flash drive, so there is no point in paying for one time.
3. Run the program on behalf of the administrator, insert the USB flash drive into the usb-input.
4. In the program window open the item File - Open. In a new window, you must specify the path to the disk image of Windows XP that you downloaded or created previously.
5. Then open the context menu Self-loading - Write the image of the hard disk.
6. In the window we specify the item "USB-HDD", we specify the path to the USB flash drive.
7. If you did not clean the flash drive before starting the process, you can do it in the program. To do this, click on the "Format" button in the window and wait for the cleaning process to finish.
8. We start the process of creating a bootable USB flash drive by clicking on the "Record" button.
9. After the creation of the flash drive, we check it for operation.

So we create a bootable USB flash drive forOS Windows XP, which you can use to restore, install or rollback the OS. The process of creating a bootable flash drive in other programs is similar to the same instructions.