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‎11-18-2016 01:34 PM

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when i do with USB it gives me a error when i boot the pc with USB Floopy or USB Hard Drive and i get the: Wasn't a operating system. And i put all the files in the USB.

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‎11-18-2016 01:36 PM

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You cannot use a USB flash drive.

 

You must use a USB floppy disk drive.  Nothing else will work.

 

When you work with old operating systems, you have to work with the tools that were available back then and USB flash drives were too new for installing drivers.

 

You can do that with Vista but not with XP or Windows 2000.

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‎11-19-2016 02:39 AM - edited ‎11-19-2016 04:28 AM

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Ok, thanks to your help, when i download the driver 64 and the installation windows xp 64-bit and i splipstream it into my new CD without any use. i boot the laptop and thankfully it shows the Windows XP Installation.

 

Thank you so much for your help. Im gonna install windows xp 64-bit so i will gonna post after i finish.

 

EDIT: I installed Windows XP 64-bit Pro. So thank you for your help.

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‎11-19-2016 06:43 AM

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You're very welcome.

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