How to create bootable XP USB?

I would like to ask this community help for idea in creating a Windows XP bootable USB stick that are formatted as NTFS.
My experience with WinToFlash is the USB stick is formatted as FAT32, and the file copy process took 5 hours, which is painfully slow.
It would be best if someone has own experience at doing this. Please help me. Thank you.
Answer #1
You can try WinSetupFromUSB….
I didn’t find WinToFlash slow..Possibly something to do with your hardware..
Answer #2
Flash drives come with various read/write speeds,Did it ever occur to you that maybe yours is very slow?
Anyways,I’ve used this method before and it worked for me:
http://komku.blogspot.com/2008/11/install-windows-xp-using-usb-flash-disk.html
Answer #3
Like Lionden, I’ve never found WinToFlash slow either. Try his other recommendation.
Answer #4
Plateryish replied: I would like to ask this community help for idea in creating a Windows XP bootable USB stick that are formatted as NTFS.
My experience with WinToFlash is the USB stick is formatted as FAT32, and the file copy process took 5 hours, which is painfully slow.
It would be best if someone has own experience at doing this. Please help me. Thank you.
WinSetupFromUSB will be the easiest to use solution..
Answer #5
The setup for Windows XP comes in thousands of tiny files where else Vista and 7 only has the bulk of the install contained into one large file (install.wim). It’s pretty common knowledge that writing numerous small files is always slower than writing a large single file. It’s the main reason it takes longer to copy XP to a USB drive compared to a newer OS. Though in your case it’s ridiculous. Try another drive.
Answer #6
If your copying from a CD, that will also slow things down.
Slow Flash memory and slow CD accesses equals a very slow file copy.
Using the files on your hard drive should speed it up a little. However if you don’t already have them on your hard drive then you are not really going to gain much if anything.
Answer #7
I tried WinsetupfromUSB and it works like charm, Windows XP installation from USB only took 15 minutes in NTFS format, compare to 5 hours in FAT32 format. Even though there’re some error during format to NTFS, but I just ignore it and it seems to cause no problem.
Thanks so much for the kindness of w-bb community. God bless you all.
Answer #8
You could try MiniXP, I’m quite sure it was available on a version of Hirens Boot CD.
If you’re complaining about write speed, it’s probably a hardware issue.