Help Required for USB booting

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hi guys,

Is there is any way i can use my pen drive as hard drive and save my xp/windows 7 operating system into it.

I have used win2flash software which helped me copy the windows xp cd files to my usb pen drive but This is not what i want to achieve .

I want to copy the entire hard drive to my 8 gb pendrive and boot from the flash drive .

Will it impact the performance of the machine.

Why no one is replying to this thread .Is my question too dump?
 
pinga123 said:
any body doing it as the process seems to be very lengthy and confusing to a novice user like me?
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Im not sure why anybody would do it even in the first place as the speeds would be pathetic, running your OC from a USB drive
I would receommend using VMware and then storing the Virtual Machine on the USB drive that way you can have it portable if that's what your main purpose might be!
 
tommy_vercetti said:
Im not sure why anybody would do it even in the first place as the speeds would be pathetic, running your OC from a USB drive
I would receommend using VMware and then storing the Virtual Machine on the USB drive that way you can have it portable if that's what your main purpose might be!
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I have read somewhere that speed is not that bad because of the fact that Pen drive has no movable part like hard drives do.
 
pinga123 said:
I have read somewhere that speed is not that bad because of the fact that Pen drive has no movable part like hard drives do.
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But the transfer speed is no where near. Write speed is even slower. Hence HDD is a lot faster.
 
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