Allex Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 I've recently reinstalled win xp in my laptop.I had to do it via usb as my cd reader is broken.It all worked except that win xp won't boot if i take out the usb key ( which i've used for installing).It simply says OPERATIVE SYSTEM NOT FOUNDI've tried changing parameters in the boot.ini file... But nothing...I'm lost and don't know what to do...Please help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 16, 2011 Share Posted September 16, 2011 Will the system only boot if that one USB key you used to install with is inserted? Have you tried booting with a different USB key plugged in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhatcc Posted September 17, 2011 Share Posted September 17, 2011 Did you use special software to prepare the usb drive? And like Trip said does this happen when you boot using other usb drives? This is a strange one You didn't by chance install the os back to the usb drive did you? Not sure how you could but... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponch Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 (edited) I'm sure we'had that one already, but I can't remember how how/if it was solved. Check that your partition is active.edit: found some (problem is "usb" is 3 letters you can't search on that) Edited September 20, 2011 by Ponch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 20, 2011 Share Posted September 20, 2011 edit: found some (problem is "usb" is 3 letters you can't search on that)Fortunately, Google has no such limitation. In order to search MSFN for terms less than 4 characters (or otherwise forbidden such as "color"), type this into Google:site:msfn.org usb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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