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Hobart, you are a spring chicken lol I am 75. Anyways, as IPR512 said XP is no longer supported and no security vulnerability patches out, so I would not reinstall it.
Was making a sound, as said could of been the hard drive going bad.
"Missing Operation Systems".
Most help sites tell me this is a death message., well it must be booting from the USB and of course no operating system on the USB, thus the error message.
You may want to try and do a repair install of XP, won't lose any files.
Do you by chance have the XP DVD/CD if so boot from it:
Reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. With the disc inserted, restart your computer. As the computer boots up, press the Setup key to enter your BIOS. The key varies from system to system, and will be displayed beneath the manufacturer's logo. Common keys include: F2, F10, F12, and Delete.
If Windows begins to load, the Setup key was not pressed in time and you will have to retry.
Change your boot order. Once you've entered the BIOS, navigate to the BOOT menu. It may be labeled slightly differently depending on your specific BIOS. You will need to change the boot order so that your CD/DVD drive is the first boot device, followed by your hard drive.
Normally, the hard drive is the primary boot device. This means that the system attempts to boot from the hard disk first, loading your installed copy of Windows. You want to change it so that it attempts to boot from your Windows disc before trying the hard drive.
Once you've changed your boot order, save your changes and restart your computer.
Start the installation. After you computer reboots again, you will see the message Press any key to boot from CD.... Press any key on you keyboard to start the Windows setup program.
Setup will load the files necessary to install Windows. This may take a few moments.
Navigate to the Repair Installation option. When the setup program first loads, you will be greeted with a Welcome message. At the bottom of the screen, you will see keys that you can press to navigate the options. DO NOT press the key for Repair; instead press Enter to continue.
Press F8 to agree to the Windows License Agreement.
Select your copy of Windows. After the license agreement, you will see a list of your drives. One of them should be labeled "Windows" and will usually be highlighted automatically. The only time you will need to manually select it is if you have multiple operating systems installed.
Start the repair. Once you have your copy highlighted, press R to start the Repair process. Windows will begin deleting system files. After the system files are deleted, fresh copies will be installed.
No personal files should be deleted during the repair.
Now if you do not have the XP DVD/CD let us know.
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