Thus, it would be a great idea if you have some old PC or laptop and you want to use the Windows XP on it. Note: Before installing Windows XP make sure your hardware is compatible because most of the modern BIOS wouldn’t support running of Windows XP and may cause a fatal error while installing. Indeed, the size of XP is just of a few MBs, thus we don’t need some huge size Pen drive. As CD drives are not anymore in the common usage, thus the only common way now we have to install XP is using a bootable USB drive.

Fix ISO mode support for Red Hat 8.Windows XP Professional is available to download free of cost along with the Product Key, therefore, if you want to install it on your old Desktop or Laptop computer system using a bootable USB drive, then here is the tutorial for that.Įarlier when Windows XP was a dominant operating system, at that time CDs were used to create a bootable medium, However, as technology is improving, that trend shifted to a USB drive.Add Miracle Linux 8 to the list of Red Hat exceptions (#1866).Fix an issue when detecting network connectivity when the DHCP service is disabled (#1801).Fix ISO → ESP creation when running on Windows 11 (#1855).Fix DLL sideloading vulnerabilities (#1838, #1877).

Add Miracle Linux 8 to the list of Red Hat exceptions.Add bypass of Windows 11 restrictions for in-place upgrades.

Fix an issue when detecting network connectivity when the DHCP service is disabled.

Fix ISO → ESP creation when running on Windows 11.

It is also marginally faster on the creation of Linux bootable USB from ISOs. For instance it's about twice as fast as UNetbootin, Universal USB Installer or Windows 7 USB download tool, on the creation of a Windows 7 USB installation drive from an ISO. Non exhaustive list of ISOs Rufus is known to work with:Īrch Linux, Archbang, BartPE/pebuilder, CentOS, Damn Small Linux, Fedora, FreeDOS, Gentoo, gNewSense, Hiren's Boot CD, LiveXP, Knoppix, Kubuntu, Linux Mint, NT Password Registry Editor, OpenSUSE, Parted Magic, Slackware, Tails, Trinity Rescue Kit, Ubuntu, Ultimate Boot CD, Windows XP (SP2 or later), Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, etc.

you need to flash a BIOS or other firmware from DOSĭespite its small size, Rufus provides everything you need!.

you need to work on a system that doesn't have an OS installed.

you need to create USB installation media from bootable ISOs (Windows, Linux, UEFI, etc.).

It can be especially useful for cases where: Rufus is a small utility that helps format and create bootable USB flash drives, such as USB keys/pendrives, memory sticks, etc.

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