zmoney2
August 30th, 2013, 06:02 PM
I'm having a problem that is driving me insane.
I am running Windows XP and am trying to make a bootable live USB drive. Every time I plug in the USB and in my bios have my laptop boot off of it I'm getting "Missing Operating System". I'm POSITIVE I'm booting off of the USB in the bios. Here is what I have done and what I have tried.
I've downloaded and used unetbootin to create the bootable live USB drive.
In unetbootin I've tried using the distribution method and have tried using the ISO image I have downloaded.
I've tried using Ubuntu 13.04 and Mint 15 (again either from the distribution method or downloading the ISO image myself, 32bit versions)
When using Mint 15 I've also verified the ISO image I've downloaded with the md5sum application (the MD5 code matched)
I've verified that the syslinux.cfg and ldlinux.sys files were indeed created on the USB
I've reformatted the USB (although it was FAT32 I reformatted it to FAT32 again just in case)... I'm using XP so I don't know how to check if LBA is on though.
I've run the executable on the USB drive and selected to run the demo and it says I need to reboot off of the USB... Again when I try that I get "Missing Operating System"
Please remember that unfortunately I'm using XP so linux type of line command solutions aren't available to me.
I'm convinced the iso image is valid and the files created by unetbootin look correct as well... so what is causing this "Missing Operating System"?
Someone please help... What am I missing here. Why isn't this bootable live USB drive booting???
I am running Windows XP and am trying to make a bootable live USB drive. Every time I plug in the USB and in my bios have my laptop boot off of it I'm getting "Missing Operating System". I'm POSITIVE I'm booting off of the USB in the bios. Here is what I have done and what I have tried.
I've downloaded and used unetbootin to create the bootable live USB drive.
In unetbootin I've tried using the distribution method and have tried using the ISO image I have downloaded.
I've tried using Ubuntu 13.04 and Mint 15 (again either from the distribution method or downloading the ISO image myself, 32bit versions)
When using Mint 15 I've also verified the ISO image I've downloaded with the md5sum application (the MD5 code matched)
I've verified that the syslinux.cfg and ldlinux.sys files were indeed created on the USB
I've reformatted the USB (although it was FAT32 I reformatted it to FAT32 again just in case)... I'm using XP so I don't know how to check if LBA is on though.
I've run the executable on the USB drive and selected to run the demo and it says I need to reboot off of the USB... Again when I try that I get "Missing Operating System"
Please remember that unfortunately I'm using XP so linux type of line command solutions aren't available to me.
I'm convinced the iso image is valid and the files created by unetbootin look correct as well... so what is causing this "Missing Operating System"?
Someone please help... What am I missing here. Why isn't this bootable live USB drive booting???