<p>Booting Windows XP from a USB Flash drive gives you great IT support tool. For example, you can make a troubleshooting toolkit for booting and analyzing seemingly dead PCs. Or you could always have your favorite support applications at your fingertips.</p><p>In this <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=108">IT Dojo</a> video, Bill Detwiler, TechRepublic's Head Technology Editor, explains the process and pitfalls of creating a bootable Windows XP USB flash drive. You'll learn how to configure a computer's BIOS to boot from a USB drive, how to download and use the free software to create a bootable drive, and how to installed Windows XP on the drive.</p><p>Once you've watched this <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=108">IT Dojo</a> video, you can read the original TechRepublic article, walk through the process in a screenshot gallery, and download a PDF version of the tip from our <a href="http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=108">IT Dojo</a> blog.</p>