Installing widows 7 using a flash drive is easy , windows xp is a tricky task. So here I provide a list of resources I used to install windows xp (full with drivers).
1. Preparing the flash drive :
2. Installing : follow instructions on the aforementioned link
3. Installing drivers: This is a tricky part again. My laptop being an old compaq presario v6218, compaq/hp had stopped providing drivers for windows xp for my components. So after installing xp using the above procedure I had the following drivers missing :
1. ethernet controller
2. network controller
3. audio
4. touchpad
5. graphics acclerator.
Mainly, I could not connect to the internet using my laptop which was the source of all problems since every driver finder ..etc required a net connection.
The network driver was only found on the intel website after going through the specs of the processor.
Hopefully I won't ever need to refer to this blog again.
