Yesterday and all day today every time that I boot my system I get a pop up saying: Attempting Boot from USB Device Non-system disk or disk error replace and press any key when ready. I can log on my system by pressing F9 and the options that I have are
CD-ROM
USB Device
Hard Drive
the Hard Drive is the only one that lets me log on my system, the other choices only take me back to the same pop up message.
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