USB drive won't boot on my Dell

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by beardedmike, Apr 7, 2012.

  1. beardedmike

    beardedmike MDL Novice

    Apr 7, 2012
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    I've been trying to do a dual boot of Chromium Lime and Windows 7 on my Dell XPS L702x. (It has two hard drives)


    Every time I try to boot into Chrome on my Dell I get the error message "Operation System Not Found." I asked the developer, he said I must have incorrectly written the boot disk.

    I've made more than a few bootable usb drives on this project, and I just confirmed that Chrome boots from at least one of them on a friends Sony Vaio.

    I called Dell and they claimed it had something to do with SATA settings and there was no way to fix it. I find this hard to believe (the fixing part).

    Wth is going on?
     
  2. Snuffy

    Snuffy MDL Expert

    Jan 7, 2008
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    Ya, well DELL is that way... They offer to fix nothing. it is always somebody elses problem... (strange thing it is a AIO 23" Self contained Dell Inspiron One") nothing 3rd party about this - but I found a way to get DELL to fix anything...
    Offer to PAY THEM... My Very last DELL ever is the one I'm writing this on .... I finally have it working 100%.
    the only glitch is sometimes (Dell says It is the OS problem). I click DOWNLOAD -anything and it sits there and after about the 5t or 6t click to DL
    it finally says OK.... PS: I have not had a problem with USB Bootable - I do have F12 key turned on so I can select the Proper Drive.. all USB Bootables made with
    UltraIso...
     
  3. F4LL0U7

    F4LL0U7 MDL Novice

    May 2, 2012
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    Did you ever get this to work? I have the same computer as you, with the same problem and I can't find the solution anywhere.