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I deleted everything on a mini PC drive now it can't recover to Windows no more I placed a XP made by Rufus in USB drive it is not recognized and have a windows 11 made from a different computer to USB for backup and not reconized . When it starts only option it goes to controller no USB option as boot device, I set the bios to USB as first boot option before deleting hard drive was wondering if disconnecting battery would accomplish any thing?

What have I done first I partition drive c ssd then deleted the partition with windows 11 in it followed by disconnecting battery now I am left with a bios that only choice in boot menu is family controller, but turning on computer it goes to diagnostics and I found command prompt. At x:\windows\system32 I went to diskpart and it lists the hard drive and USB drive with XP installed using Rufus and I also downloaded XP iso to USB drive what I can't figure out is how to get to volume 4 letter F using command prompt so I can start XP?

Hi John,

First off what mini PC, make and model are you working with?
From your post i assume you want to run windows XP on this computer. If you give the above information i can check if the computer will install and run XP.

Benss Mini PC, Mini Intel 11th Gen 4 Cores N5095, Mini Desktop Computer 8GB DDR4 RAM 256GB SSD, Small Mini Computer Supports HDMI and DP 4K UHD/Gigabit Ethernet/Dual WiFi/BT/VESA for Home/Office Model B00JP3 , I think I am trying to do something that can not be done.  My dream machine is when it comes on it gives you three choices to boot to 1 MSDos 6.0, 2 Windows XP, and 3 Windows 11. XP is a lot faster when using in Oracle Virtual on a new machine. I tried making a bootable XP from iso file to USB fat32 as this machine is uefi didn't work.

Windows XP doesn't support GPT disks or booting from UEFI out of the box. It may be possible to hack it in, but it would take a lot of work, that may not work like you want it to.

Here is an example in a vm.
https://twitter.com/ntdev_/status/1332759752326209539