Solve : Windows 10 fails to boot from its USB to my Win XP?

1.	Solve : Windows 10 fails to boot from its USB to my Win XP?
Answer» I reset my XP bootup to use a USB, which is the one that came in my Win 10 and rebooted my XP. This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something. Then it failed because it could't find the operating system. I'm not surprised, because I didn't boot from my hard drive. How can you boot from 2 places at the same time, that seems stupid to me? It appears that I'm somehow doing things in the wrong order. Shouldn't I boot from my XP first and then somehow boot from the Windows 10 USB key? If so, how do I do that? Can anyone help me? I'm a newbie to the Hope system and tring to use it is confusing me searhing for posts etc. I hope I can find my post again, lol. Thanks, Gable. It works only if you follow the instructions. In short, the boot up thing has three major steps. 1. Firmware selects a media device that has some boot code. 2. The media device loads more code specific to the OS. 3. The OS loader completes the process and puts the whole OS into memory. Reference: https://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc3.htm Linux has the most versatile boot loads, because the Linux users are very clever. And they like to share with others just to feel good. Microsoft-is not motivated to help you boot some other OS. Learning how the Linux loader works can take weeks, even months to master. Or, just follow the steps yu are told. In the order given Here is just one of many tutorials. How to Dual-boot Linux and Windows (on a PC With Windows 7 Already Installed) Quote he purpose of this Instructable is to set up your computer to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Dual-booting is a technique which allows a single physical computer to run two or more operating systems Have you already done that? Quote from: Gable on November 22, 2019, 12:47:25 PM I reset my XP bootup to use a USB, which is the one that came in my Win 10 and rebooted my XP. This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something. This doesn't make any SENSE. Can you try to explain clearly what you are trying to do?XP pretty much had no USB support...however a USB win install on a USB STIK should STILL boot...how was this stik built and have you tried it on another PC ? ? More details please.The stick came from Micrsoft with the Windows 10 I just bought. I don't have another PC to try it on. My XP has like 254 G.GB. The PROBLEM is it fails when tring to boot from their stick and I don't know why, it says it can't find the Operating System. When the USB Drive is not connected, Does this XP Computer boot properly from the Hard Drive? If you boot from the Windows 10 Flash Drive, it will be for installing Windows 10 on said computer. You cannot run Windows 10 itself without installing it onto the Hard Disk. Quote This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something That sounds like it may not be attempting to boot from the USB Drive at all; that "Link step" you mention seems like it may be the Intel PXE/Network boot, which is often last in the boot order. That is a special way of booting PCs over the network. I suggest you Enter the system's BIOS/CMOS Setup and verify boot order options. It sounds like it is not currently configured to attempt to boot from USB at all.I think the OP needs to do some more reading. Here is stuff he needs to look at: https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/multi-boot-managers.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders Quote Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device. As I said earlier, Linux has more options. Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 22, 2019, 07:06:00 PM I think the OP needs to do some more reading. Here is stuff he needs to look at: https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/multi-boot-managers.shtml https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders As I said earlier, Linux has more options.

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I reset my XP bootup to use a USB, which is the one that came in my Win 10 and rebooted my XP. This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something. Then it failed because it could't find the operating system. I'm not surprised, because I didn't boot from my hard drive. How can you boot from 2 places at the same time, that seems stupid to me? It appears that I'm somehow doing things in the wrong order. Shouldn't I boot from my XP first and then somehow boot from the Windows 10 USB key? If so, how do I do that? Can anyone help me?
I'm a newbie to the Hope system and tring to use it is confusing me searhing for posts etc. I hope I can find my post again, lol. Thanks, Gable. It works only if you follow the instructions.
In short, the boot up thing has three major steps.
1. Firmware selects a media device that has some boot code.
2. The media device loads more code specific to the OS.
3. The OS loader completes the process and puts the whole OS into memory.
Reference:
https://computer.howstuffworks.com/pc3.htm

Linux has the most versatile boot loads, because the Linux users are very clever. And they like to share with others just to feel good.
Microsoft-is not motivated to help you boot some other OS.
Learning how the Linux loader works can take weeks, even months to master.

Or, just follow the steps yu are told. In the order given
Here is just one of many tutorials.

How to Dual-boot Linux and Windows (on a PC With Windows 7 Already Installed)
Quote

he purpose of this Instructable is to set up your computer to dual-boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux. Dual-booting is a technique which allows a single physical computer to run two or more operating systems

Have you already done that?
Quote from: Gable on November 22, 2019, 12:47:25 PM

I reset my XP bootup to use a USB, which is the one that came in my Win 10 and rebooted my XP. This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something.

This doesn't make any SENSE. Can you try to explain clearly what you are trying to do?XP pretty much had no USB support...however a USB win install on a USB STIK should STILL boot...how was this stik built and have you tried it on another PC ? ?

More details please.The stick came from Micrsoft with the Windows 10 I just bought. I don't have another PC to try it on. My XP has like 254 G.GB. The PROBLEM is it fails when tring to boot from their stick and I don't know why, it says it can't find the Operating System. When the USB Drive is not connected, Does this XP Computer boot properly from the Hard Drive?

If you boot from the Windows 10 Flash Drive, it will be for installing Windows 10 on said computer. You cannot run Windows 10 itself without installing it onto the Hard Disk.

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This seemed to work going through several steps upto a Link step or something

That sounds like it may not be attempting to boot from the USB Drive at all; that "Link step" you mention seems like it may be the Intel PXE/Network boot, which is often last in the boot order. That is a special way of booting PCs over the network.

I suggest you Enter the system's BIOS/CMOS Setup and verify boot order options. It sounds like it is not currently configured to attempt to boot from USB at all.I think the OP needs to do some more reading.
Here is stuff he needs to look at:

https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/multi-boot-managers.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders

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Note: The column MBR (Master Boot Record) refers to whether or not the boot loader can be stored in the first sector of a mass storage device. The column VBR (Volume Boot Record) refers to the ability of the boot loader to be stored in the first sector of any partition on a mass storage device.

As I said earlier, Linux has more options.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 22, 2019, 07:06:00 PM

I think the OP needs to do some more reading.
Here is stuff he needs to look at:

https://www.thefreecountry.com/utilities/multi-boot-managers.shtml

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_boot_loaders

As I said earlier, Linux has more options.

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