1. First download a tool called "Old Peach WinPE" to the hard disk, then connect the USB flash drive to the computer, then select Item 4 "Grub Installation/Start" and then enter;
2. Enter the letter of the U disk (no colon is needed, for example: h), and then press enter;
3. Enter the formatting step and click "Start" according to the default settings;
4. Formatting has been completed;
5. Enter the boot area of Grub2U. What needs to be explained here is that there are two options on the "equipment" disk, one is the hard disk of the computer, and the other is the U disk to be made. Be sure to choose the right USB flash drive here. Don't choose the wrong hard disk. You can tell which USB flash drive it is from its size. The following Options section can be ignored, and no parameters are checked by default. After confirming the above steps, click "Install" to enter the next step;
6. Prompt "Your USB flash drive has been successfully formatted and written into Grub boot, please press any key to continue", and press any key to enter the next step;
7. Enter the password setting step to set the password for starting the USB flash drive. This step cannot be skipped. After setting according to the prompt, be sure to remember your password, otherwise the startup USB flash drive will be unusable.
8. After "Press any key to exit", the startup USB flash drive of WindowsPE is completed.
Start WindowsPE with USB flash drive
1. Set the first startup item of the computer to USB device startup.
In the past, the system was installed by CD, and the startup item should be adjusted to CD startup. Now, if the system is installed by U disk, it should be adjusted to U disk startup. In this respect, different computers and different versions of bios have different setting methods, but they are all the same. The purpose is to turn the first startup item of the computer into a USB flash drive. Here are some examples of different bios adjustment methods.
The most common bios option for Phoenix Award is USB hard disk.
Bios adjustment option "USB device" of dell brand machine;
BIOS "-USB HDD" of ThinkPad series notebooks;
The BIOS“USB Hrrd Disk "of HP business notebook is set to" First ".
The usb boot step has been set.
2. Start the computer.
Install XP with a bootable USB flash drive, first connect the USB flash drive with boot function to the computer.
3. enter WinPE.
After starting the computer, you will be asked to enter the password to start the USB flash drive, which is the password set when making this USB flash drive. When you enter the correct password, you will see a selection menu and select "WinPE By:MAOTAO".
4. enter WinPE.
Then we will enter a mini operating system WinPE running on a USB flash drive (not a computer hard disk). It has many functions similar to XP. With it, we can do whatever we want with the computer.
5. to format the c drive.
How to do whatever you want? You can format drive C directly. Isn't that shocking enough? Before installing the new XP, let's format the C drive. Please take out the virtual CD-ROM drive to help after formatting the C disk in the computer with WinPE on the U disk.
6. WinPE running on USB flash drive comes with a virtual CD-ROM drive.
7. Load the image of XP CD.
We chose a ghost version of the CD image made by deepin, which was made from the famous "8-minute fast loading version 6.5" CD. If you have an optical drive, just put this "8-minute crash version 6.5" CD into the optical drive and install it directly. However, because there is no CD-ROM drive, we had some trouble installing this system.
8. Start the ghost of WinPe.
Then we started another WinPE software Norton Ghost. Use it to restore the ghost image of the system to the C disk of the previously formatted computer.
In fact, this is just one of the ways to install the system with a USB flash drive. There are many other ways to install the system, so I won't give an example in this article. Maybe you found it carefully. With this startup USB flash drive, you don't have to worry that important data will be saved in drive C after the system crashes, because as long as you start WinPE with the USB flash drive, you can go in and back up important data to other partitions.