From our readers always get the most varied demands, among all choose to meet the most interesting such as those of Leo and Funkmayer asking us a better guide is installed as XP on a pen drive and create for ourselves as our operating system pocket. In fact, the request is legitimate especially if you do not have to always carry a notebook, which however will always resposabilità to have to guard carefully to avoid damage or theft. Alternatives? Sure, portiamoci behind our operating system installed in a pendrive to boot from any computer at our disposal. Comfortable, safe, legggero, in short, a gem!

WINDOWS IN MINIATURE:

1. Insert the Windows installation CD into the PC. Esploriamone content, then right click the mouse all the files and folders contained in it, and from the context menu, click on Copy. Create a folder on your hard drive (giving the name XP) and incolliamoci in the copied files (Ctrl + V). 2. We can now install nLite. Execute the file nLite-1.4.9.1.installer.exe downloadable from here : start a simple wizard. Click Next in the screen that appears, accept the terms checked the license agreement and continue with Next.
3. On the next screen of the wizard, if we do not have special needs, preserving for nLite installation directory, C: \ Program Files \ nLite. Click Next to continue and even in the two following screens Next to start the installation of nLite. When finished, press Finish. 4. After installation of nLite, it will automatically launch a practical configuration wizard software. Welcome screen in nLite selected the Italian language from the pulldown menu. The interface will be immediately translated into our language. We continue with Next.
5. We will be asked to indicate the folder that contains files previously copied to the hard disk from the original CD of Windows. Click the Browse button and select in the Browse for Folder screen, the directory C: \ XP. After a while, some information will appear on the system found by nLite. 6. Next and proceed with the jump screen configurations always Next. In Select operations click on Firefox. This allows the removal of unnecessary Windows tools for the realization of our mini distribution lightening of your C: \ XP.
7. Click Next. Compatibility screen choose the functions to be preserved by possible removal. Click the radio DHCP functionality (Ethernet and Wi-Fi), useful for obtaining an IP address automatically when you connect to the Internet using the pendrive. Then click OK. 8. Once in Firefox sbizzarriamoci elimination of the various features of Windows. The Applications category can be eliminated completely as long, however, to retain some components: Calculator, Paint and Wordpad. For all other just a check mark to remove them permanently.
9. In Multimedia checked entries Windows Media Player, Speech, Images and Backgrounds Movie Maker Music Samples and Tablet PCs. Click Next, and we start the removal of various components responding Yes when asked Apply the changes. 10. Nlite We expect to complete its work in a few moments our Windows thumbnail will be ready!

To facilitate the process CHICCHEDICALA prepared the EP-ARCHIVE BUILDER.RAR, integrating PLUG-IN NEEDED DESCRIBED IN GUIDE.

(Otherwise you'll have to download them separately). PeBuilder.rar Downloads

The next step is to integrate the operating system everything needed to surf the Internet. To do this, we can use BartPE. Here's how.
11. Pebuilder.rar Unpack the tarball and execute the file to begin the simple pebuilder3110a.exe BartPE installation. The first time the software originally indicated the folder C: \ containing the version of Windows XP with nLite reduced. 12. Java installed on your PC (if we have not already done) initiating the file jre6u2-windows-i586-p.exe to this archive. We do the same thing with Foxit PDF Reader by running foxitReader.exe pebuilder.rar also present in the archive.
13. Pebuilder.rar compressed in the archive there are also plug-ins firefox-2.8.7z, java160-1.2.cab pdfrd.cab and useful to integrate the browser, Java and the PDF reader in the mini distribution. Scompattiamoli with WinRAR to a folder on your hard drive. 14. Following a similar procedure regexpander-1.2.cab unpack the file (the archive pebuilder.rar). This plug-in allows operation of Java without problems, creating special temporary registry keys when running from pendrive of our distribution.
15. In so created folders, find files and configuration files directory (if not present, creiamole by right-clicking the mouse in an empty area of the Windows Explorer screen and select New / Folder from the shortcut menu). Then, copy everything in C: \ pebuilder \ plugin. 16. Now we copy the folders bin and lib in C: \ Program Files \ Java \ jre1.6.0_02 directory C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ java \ files and files and NPSWF32.dll flashplayer.xpt C: \ Program \ Mozilla Firefox \ plugins to C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ FireFox \ files \ plugins. If there are no files firefox see notes to instill leadership.
17. FoxitReader.exe us copy the executable to C: \ pebuilder \ plugin \ pdfrd \ files renaming PDFReader.exe. Posizioniamoci in the C: \ pebuilder \ pdfrd and Notepad open the file PDFReader.inf. In the [SourceDisksFiles] delete the line files \ preview2.dll = a,, 1 and save. 18. At this point we return the main interface of BartPE. Plugins and click on the button, the screen that appears, verify that the installed plugins are properly activated. Click on the button Enable / Disable to enable or disable the additional software included.
19. Securing the screen plug-in from the main BartPE and how to set any output media. Then click the Create button to launch the procedure for implementing the LiveCD version of Windows. 20th. Armiamoci patience: The process may take several minutes. After we make sure everything is successful, if no errors were examining the log file and identify the problem, in my case the file was not present access.cpl solution? download it here .
21. Download from here the Service Pack 1 for Windows Server 2003 contains the files that make the pendrive bootable. We start the command prompt (Start / Run / cmd) portiamoci in the folder where we saved the file and its contents with estraiamone WindowsServer2003-KB889101-SP1-x86-ENU.exe-x. 22. Our choice to choose a folder to save the extracted files. Srsp1 then create a directory within C: \ pebuilder3110a. Without this we get, from Windows Explorer, the folder where we unpacked the Service Pack, portiamoci i386 subdirectory, copy the file and Setupldr.bin incolliamolo in C: \ pebuilder3110a \ srsp1.
23. The last step in the expansion of another file in the i386 directory. From the command prompt give the command cd C: \ directory \ i386 followed by Enter and type the string ramdisk.sy_ expand-r C: \ pebuilder3110a \ srsp1 confirming with Enter. Just a few seconds to copy the file to the destination folder. 24. We download the tarball from USBDiskFormat.zip www.techportal.it . Execute the file that contains the tool to install the HP USB Disk Storage Format. Connect the key to your PC and we start the software will automatically recognize you. Leave everything as is and click Start to format the pendrive.
25. We can now transfer the OS on the stick (if we followed the steps seen so far, it just a 256 MB). Open the command prompt and portiamoci folder BartPE cd C: \ pebuilder3110a. We command pe2usb L: where L: is the drive assigned to the pendrive, typing Yes and press Enter. 26. After the transfer, reboot and enter the BIOS by pressing Delete key before the Windows logo appears. We set the primary drive to boot USB-HDD-FDD FMD to restart the system from USB stick! Loaded mini distribution, press Yes to configure the network settings and verify that it has obtained a valid IP address.

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