Update: Before you try all of this, you may want to try using WinToFlash, a utility designed to create a bootable Windows flash drive for Windows XP/Vista/7/Server. If this works for you, you can skip ...

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Written by Tom Espiner and David Mey ZDNet.co.uk, Contributor March 5, 2009 at 8:36 p.m. PT Microsoft will continue to offer Windows XP for netbooks even after it starts selling Windows 7 for the ...