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Originally Posted by yancek
You need to first of all set the computer to boot from usb in your BIOS. When you boot the computer, you should see a message on the screen for 3-5 seconds telling you to press a specific key to enter setup. Press that key (HP is usually F10?) and look for the boot tab in the BIOS screen and use the keyboard arrow keys on the right to navigate to where you can set usb as first boot priority. If your computer is old enough that it came with xp installed, you may not have that option. This is the first thing you need to determine.
To determine why you got the error "no valid system partitions found" you would need to boot Ubuntu and open a terminal and run this command: sudo fdisk -l(Lower case Letter L in the command) and post the output here.
Is the iso file you have for xp service pack three as the one in the video? I've never used xp myself but, I've recently read several posts in different places of people trying to use unetbootin with xp without success. Windows doesn't recognize Linux partitions so posting the output of fdisk may give someone a clue as to what to suggest.
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ok, i did sudo fdisk -l this is what i got.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 75823103 37910528 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 75825150 78163967 1169409 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 75825152 78163967 1169408 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 7822 MB, 7822376960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 951 cylinders, total 15278080 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 15278079 7639039 b W95 FAT32
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 75823103 37910528 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 75825150 78163967 1169409 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 75825152 78163967 1169408 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 7822 MB, 7822376960 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 951 cylinders, total 15278080 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 2 15278079 7639039 b W95 FAT32