Flash drive windows on X40

I have an IBM X40 with a failed HDD and no way to hook up a cd drive, i was just wondering if there would be some way for me to install windows onto a flash drive and have the laptop boot from the flash drive, yes the bios does support booting from a flashdrive and i know how to make it boot from a flashdrive, so really i am asking whether i can install windows onto a flashdrive. I have heard of it being done but i have had no success with doing it myself, also i don't care that it would be unbearable slow and i would be installing windows XP Pro. I have a 4gb flashdrive.

you would be much better off buying a cheap external drive at walmart or kmart or best buy or staples or whatever dept. store you have around. i assume you have access to another computer to copy the flash drive, right? what i'm getting at is you will have to reinstall all the drivers anyway and doing that with a flash drive will be lots of fun. you should download all the drivers on disk first. the cd will attach by your usb port. they are cheap nowadays. i guess i'm assuming that your usb ports work though. if they don't you can get an adapter card that plugs into the pc slot that has usb ports in it although they will only be 1.1 ports. the ports on your machine are 2.0. i cloned a hard drive once through a 1.1 port and it took 6 hours. it takes 20 min. through a 2.0 port.
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