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Chan-man

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I have a win xp computer the local health clinic gave to me. It wouldn't let me do a factory reset so i pulled the drive and wiped it. It still has the original COA sticker on the side so i'm trying to find a .iso to boot from a USB drive to get it going again. the problem is that when I download this iso the only program i can find that supports xp is "Rufus" and rufus says it has to be a "bootmgr" or whatever. Can someone tell me how to get this thing up and running? I'm also open to running linux on it if thats better. I'm going to sell it so i'm not sure what to do.

Computer Model Optiplex gx280.
 
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ComputerSecurityGuy

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Windows XP is ancient. Linux will be better, used machines like that are good Linux boxes. XP has so many unpatched security issues that using it is asking to be hacked. Linux will perform better and is more secure. Pick 32-bit versions. I would go with Mint or Debian.
 
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Chan-man

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What about using Ubuntu?

 
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That didn't work either. The error is "this version of rufus only supports bootable ISOs based on 'bootmgr/WinPE' or 'isolinux'. This ISO image doesn't appear to use either.."
 
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If the computer has an optical drive, just burn the ISO to a disk (expand it to the disk not just burn the ISO file to it), and boot off that. Or you can use an external CD/DVD drive for that also. If you are selling it, XP is better, not a big market for Linux computers.
 
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