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Your flash drive only has the setup program not the actual OS as it would be on your hard drive.
The fact that it won't boot through your USB is because there is no OS on your laptop with the required drivers for your USB and other hardware, for that.
You need to have OS installed on your hard drive to be able to run all the peripheral hardware, else nothing happens.
Please install the apropriate Operating System (OS) on your hard drive, and voila!!! magic happens after that.
Search asus p5ad2 premium drivers. Choose Download. Then XP and download from Global. Unzip and runs setup. XP being the prominent OS of the day for this older unit.
You might be having a damaged disk. If you are installing windows XP, replace the installation cd. If you have windows XP already installed, a damage to your hard disk caused the error. You will therefore have to use the installation CD to scan the disk to fix errors, or install windows XP afresh.
if your hard drives were in a RAID configuration at any point or your computer has a RAID controller in it nothing will work until you reconfigure the RAID setup. it is probably a good idea at this point to completely wipe the drives as there may be some lingering RAID configuration data remnants on them and this can also mess things up pretty good.
AFAIK all XP disks were bootable so maybe check your bios options.
If they are correct and it still does not boot them goto bootdisk.com and download the floppy setup disks for XP. You could then set your laptop to boot from floppy and install xp from there.
first of all let me tell u one thing u cannot install XP when you have Vista, cause higher version will never take a lower version of os. for this i recommend that u format your hard disk drive. now you say that you computer says there is no hard drive detected for this is recommend do little change in your cmos setup disable sata port thats it
missing operating system message usually means that your HDD is pooched, or corrupted
check your bios settings to check that it can still "see your HDD"
if you can hear your hard drive going "click, click, click" when attempting to boot, that is usually a bad sign
to perform setup use orignal recovery setup disk or OS disks of your choice (BOOT from CD) to install OS from scratch.
boot with win xp setup disk.
set first boot devic as cd drive then insert win xp disk into it.
then follow wthe procedure .try to repair os win xp .if it is not found bye setup go to recovery console run this command: CHKDSK /r
then wait untill cmd probmpt.
ten u can repair win xp
if you are doing a clean XP install the CD will ask if you if you want to change your partitions.Afterwards it will automatically format the hard drive.Some of the OS discs dont come with drivers you will have to hunt for them on the internet.If you are using a restore disc copyied from a working machine it should have generic drivers already loaded in the disc.
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