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I want to install ubuntu on my PC which is running windows XP right now. I have made my pen drive bootable and have loaded Ubuntu on it. When I insert the pen drive at the time of booting of my PC, nothing happens and windows XP starts normally instead of asking me if I want to boot from my pen drive. Also when, I entered my BIOS setting to change the boot order there was no option of pen drive as a boot device.

Please suggest me a way to install the OS using my already made bootable pen drive. And there's no problem with my pen drive cause I have tried it on my friends PC and it worked normally.

Thanks in advance

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Have you done a cold shutdown, placed the drive in a usb slot, then turned the machine on? Also while booting look for the F options. All of my computers allow me to on the fly choose what to boot with. – MrStatic Jun 26 '10 at 15:57
What BIOS version are you using? – kevininspace Jun 26 '10 at 15:58
While this does belong on superuser.com this question has, in all probability, been asked there before. – ChrisF Jun 26 '10 at 16:06
why not use wubi? – Ivo Flipse♦ Jun 27 '10 at 12:13
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Check your BIOS bootscreen to see if there's an option to boot from your USB drive right now. For example, for me it's usually been F12. If there is such a menu but your USB key isn't listed then your BIOS might not support booting from it.

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If you can't boot from a USB drive (and have no CD drive, which you didn't say), the methods here will probably work for you:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows

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