Once upon a time in the bustling town of Techville, there lived a young IT technician named Alex. Alex had a problem. A big, frustrating problem.
His ancient netbook, affectionately named "Old Rusty," had given up the ghost. Its hard drive was corrupted, and its CD-ROM drive had stopped working years ago. Alex needed to install Windows XP on it (because Old Rusty was too weak for anything newer), but he had no DVD, no external drive, and the netbook refused to boot from a simple USB stick made with the usual tools.
Alex returned with his tea just as the black window vanished. The main program said "Job done." Alex ejected the USB drive, plugged it into Old Rusty, and powered it on. He pressed F12 for the boot menu and selected "USB HDD."
Alex looked at the drive. The folder name read: winsetupfromusb-1-9 . Alex plugged a blank 8GB USB stick into his modern PC. He opened the WinSetupFromUSB_1-9.exe file.
"Don't touch it," Greta said calmly. "Go make tea."
Alex checked the box. FBinst was a mysterious tool inside WinSetupFromUSB that made USB drives bootable on nearly any computer, even ones that hated USB booting. Now came the magic.