Hello, I have a PHILIPS USB 2.0 Mobile Disk, I want to use it via my Macintosh Powerbook G4, operating system OS X 10.4.11 I plugged it into the usb port but nothing.

I have answered one of the similar questions earlier, please look at this it similar to yours: how many drive letter you have on your system? Make sure your drive is inside the usb port. I assume you are running windows system. Right click on my computer, click manage, then click disk management.

Can you see your flash drive there, right click over it and assign a drive letter and thats it, you should see it. Or disconnect any f drives which you have by simply right clicking and disconnect, your flash drive should show you right away. Or Install any drivers which came with the drive and you should see it. Hope that helped! Posted on Dec 08, 2007. Well that is so easy to answer, first off you are not using real HP disks are you.

Its old Blue Microsoft disks right, and when you do that wrong, you get no HP chip drivers and lost more missing, even top row, fn keys dead, not just audio. XP is a dead OS. For 3 years now, zero updates and is now a virus magnet extream. Nx9010 note book shuts down, all 3 os install different.! Old XP runs a very old and very DUMBB seteup.,exe the newer OS run WINPE for setup.exe.

Vastly better and boots and loads the OS totally different. Ulead Photo Express 4.0 Se. Xp can be installed many ways, not one stated by you. 1-insert, HP install disk in CDROM drive and click, setup.exe running in a XP explorer window, live install 2: boot to HP install disk. 3: boot and hit F11 run HPs on HDD restore partition. 4: same as a above 1, or 2, but is Micro soft disk (wrong, you did it wrong, do not use mS disk) if must ask how, its a long long long story.

Ive done it all ways, 1000s of time. Now since first PC.s ever. If booting to XP, right or wrong CD. (its a CD right or a stick that too not stated, it boots and you answer questions, then it starts copying if it stalls that means, the CD is bad. Or PC is bad, you do know there are 3million transistors here to fail right? Bad HDD, bad Mobo, and more. Lots more even the CPU can over heat and will shut down.

Personally I avoid all CD nows, they sux'd then and do now more. Make and ISO of your CD, (ask its easy and free) then burn the ISO to a 4GB or bigger uSB memory stick using free RUFUS app.

Boot to stick. On my HP hit F9 and pick Udisk USB. Boot bingo no more CD errors ever again. I bet bad CD.

Seen it vast times, endless, but not today. Too savvy now. To mess with any CD, if you copy it to ISO and get CRC errors its a bad CD. The problem with real old PC most cant boot to USB or must be BIOS flashed updated to get that.

Ill now ill try to learn what yours can or can not do. Lacking,what is there now. But id do this first. Go in to BIOS BOOT PAGE The default boot order settings for the computer are configured in the factory. The default boot order for HP notebook PCs is listed below.

• Floppy disk drive • Optical drive (DVD, CD-ROM) • Hard drive • USB device (see this?) bingo, can boot and install any OS here • Network adapter Apr 23, 2017 . If you have a valid Win XP Pro CD and want to install the operating system you'll need to format your hard disk drive. If you have allot of data on you're hard disk drive, (In Win 2000) Suggest you create a second partition within the free space of you're hdd and install windows XP Pro. Boot you're system with the XP CD. Pay close attention to the display screens. Follow the instructions for creating a second partition. Format the new partition.

Install windows XP on the new partition. Once completed you can copy your personal data to win XP.

If you choose to keep the win 2000 partition and you do not wish to have a dual boot system than remove/delete the root files from the 2000 partition. These files; Autoexec.bat and Boot.ini. You're new XP Boot.ini should read like this; [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) WINDOWS [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1) WINDOWS='Microsoft Windows XP Professional' /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /usepmtimer Once you're satisfied an no longer need win 2000 use windows diskmgmt.msc from the run command to delete the win 2000 partition.