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Posted: Dec. 09 2004,15:05 QUOTE
The hd is secured by SafeGuard Easy. There's no possibility to access it outside Win.
So it's impossible to boot from stick, navigate round Win and mess up the hd, if you mean that.

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Posted: Dec. 22 2004,22:50 QUOTE
Turned out that a Bios update doesn't help.
So I called the hp hotline. They suggested to format the usb stick as supperfloppy and do some googling about this issue....

cfdisk:
Btw. what option do I have to set up to get a superfloppy formated usb stick? Couldn't find any usefull information with google.

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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,10:31 QUOTE
Hi!
I had exactly the same problem with a USB key on my computer few days ago. It appeared that it was just my USB key which was not recognized as bootable (I had also "USB flash Disk"  written on screen on boot and then "Missing Operating System"), even if I could boot on it on another PC. I don't why but some PCs can recognize my key as bootable and other, no. I've tried with another brand USB key and everything is all right with the other. Perhaps you should try with another USB key (other brand).
Good luck!
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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,14:15 QUOTE
Turned out that I had to format the stick as superfloppy. :p
Now it works. But not with dsl. Tried a different distro. Not as useable and mature as dsl but so much eye candy.

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Posted: Jan. 05 2005,15:29 QUOTE
How have you formated the USB key as superfloppy?
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