upgrading to XP Home from linux using portable HD

[GLENDENNING.J]

Greetings People,

Ive just had a shiny new Acer Aspire One with Linux installed and shock horror it doesnt support 3G wireless. Apparently I have to upgrade to XP Home.

Problem is my USB Flash drive is only 500 MVB.

I do however have a portable hard drive.

Has anyone attempted this using a portable hard drive or can someone advise if the procedure is possible using the 500MB USB flash disk?

I am a technophobe so any detailed advice would be great.

Thanks!

John

 

[maciek]

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XP shouldnt be different too much

 

[GLENDENNING.J]

Marek.

Im trying step 2, to make my USB device bootable for XP, without much success

WHich command should I use instead of x:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 y: /mbr . Ive tried this and Im being told the system cant find the path specified.

Im using d:\boot\bootsect.exe /nt60 f: /mbr , where d: is my cd drive and f: is my partitioned HD.

Thanks,

John