Early versions of the Raspberry Pi could only boot from SD cards, but newer ones can boot from any USB device, like an external drive or USB stick. Here's how.

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The USB drive should now be bootable. So simply restart, hold down the Option key (Alt) when booting with the USB drive in your machine, and you should get the option to boot from the USB drive.

To boot Windows XP from USB drive, make sure that you have at least a 4GB USB drive (8GB is better). It should be a good quality drive, with a good access speed.