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Creating USB Boot Disk

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by maf

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I have created a UFD to boot Windows XP. Ther are four files on the disk namely bartpe (image files), mtdetect (ms-dos application), ntldr (file) and winnt.sif (SIF file). When i try to boot with the UFD i get the message "MISSING OPERATING SYSTEM".
What could be the problem? I did not get any errors when i created the boot disk using bartpe.

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by rob miners

to point out that that it isn't bootable and does'nt have an Active Partition. ;)

by nepenthe0

That will teach me to put words into someone else's mouth. I'm glad you posted back, because now I see your point.

Rick/Portland, OR

by rob miners

but without that extra information on how to make the Partition Active a lot of the people using it as a guide are getting lost. ;)

I don't think that it would be to hard to add that extra info. ;)

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