I lost the boot capability on my XP machine.

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I installed a UNIX variant [can't remember which] on my XP machine using a bootable thumbdrive, and installed a boot manager.

I resized the XP before installing UNIX/BM. When I decided to not go that rout, I deleted the new partitions, and put XP back to all of the drive, forgetting about the boot files...

How do I make the computer bootable without doing a recovery, as it's a netbook and I don't want to put together an external optical drive to fix it...
 

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How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
Done properly all your data and apps will be there...1 mistake and all is gone but you'll have a fresh XP install.
So i suggest reading it thru and printing a reference copy before starting.
 

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patio said:
How to Perform a Windows XP Repair Install
Done properly all your data and apps will be there...1 mistake and all is gone but you'll have a fresh XP install.
So i suggest reading it thru and printing a reference copy before starting.
Click to expand...

That would require an optical drive. I don't have one on it, but I do have a thumb drive that will boot the computer...
 

My Computer My Computer

At a glance

Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64AMD FX 835016 Gigs [1 Gig for Shared Vid mem]Integrated ATI Radeon HD 4250 GPU
Computer type
PC/Desktop
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Custom Build
OS
Windows 7 Ultimate x64/Windows 8.1 Pro x64
CPU
AMD FX 8350
Motherboard
Asus M5A88-M
Memory
16 Gigs [1 Gig for Shared Vid mem]
Graphics Card(s)
Integrated ATI Radeon HD 4250 GPU
Sound Card
ALC892 8-Channel High Def Audio
Monitor(s) Displays
VGA main, HDMI to TV
Screen Resolution
VGA Screen: 1440 x 900 TV Screen: 1920 x 1080
Hard Drives
120 Gig SSD
150 Gig HDD
~2TB on server. [My Docs, Photos, My Music, dedicated drives, Desktop is a folder. All on the server. Used by both Win7/Win8.1, and other machines in the house]
PSU
850 Watt
Case
Smilodon Raidmax
Cooling
Cooler Master Hyper212EVO
Keyboard
[2,] Wireless
Mouse
[2,] Wireless
Internet Speed
Broadband
Antivirus
Microsoft Security Essentials
Browser
IE, Chrome, Opera
Other Info
Blue-Ray DL drive Z:\
Server: 2.4Ghz Dual core, with about 2TB on it. WinServ2003Enterprise x32 w 8Gigs usable RAM [YES]
MacBook: 2Ghz Core2Duo, 2Gigs, Snow 160Gigs
Acer AspireOne: 1.6Ghz, Dual-Core, 1 Gig, XP Home
6 Android Devices
iPod Touch
Optical drives are dirt cheap right now...
You would need to setup the thumb drive to be bootable and then clone the XP image to it...i've never experimented with this method.
Is the Recovery Console installed on this PC ? ?
 

My Computer My Computer

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Vista Ultimate X64/ Windows 7 Dual-bootQ66004G OCZ PC2 8500 PlatinumEVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
Self-Built
OS
Vista Ultimate X64/ Windows 7 Dual-boot
CPU
Q6600
Motherboard
ASUS P5K
Memory
4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
Graphics Card(s)
EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
Hard Drives
500G Seagate SATA
200G Seagate SATA
100G WD Caviar SATA
80G WD Caviar IDE
PSU
OCZ Elite 800W PSU
Case
RaidMax Smilodon Case
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