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XPS Boot From USB [SOLVED]
I managed to screw up my hard drive using ptedit32.exe while trying to remove the security partition on a flash drive. I was successful in doing so but I managed to copy the table code over to the HDD as well and now my computer believes its hard drive is a 4GB flash drive.
I attempted to reboot the system with a Windows 7 bootable USB, but my XPS M1530 will not recognize the device. When starting up the system, I pressed F12 to choose the device to boot from and the USB HDD did not appear. There isn't much I can do with my laptop right now to change any settings other than the BIOS.
If that isn't enough, my optical drive is completely shot and hasn't worked for a year now, I assume the hardware is the issue. This is a problem cause I was planning on putting in an old Win XP CD if all else failed and worked my way up from there. If anyone has any sort of ideas (other than pressing F12 and choosing USB) I'd be glad to hear it.
EDIT: What happens after I power up: Dell Splash screen followed by a black screen "No bootable devices". The only thing I can do is run an onboard diagnostics which turns up nothing and enter BIOS.
-Alex
Last edited by Alzar; 13 Apr 2010 at 19:12.