lowprofile Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 I have an Asus EE 1000 which I have previously had with Ubuntu and then XP systems. I had installed Mint but wanted to try out Win 10 so tried to load my Win 7 disc to upgrade it to 10. That wouldn't work for some reason so I re-installed XP and tried to go to Win 7 again from there. That failed, too. I am now trying to re-install Mint 16 or 17 from an external dvd drive (as I did previously) but, no matter what I do to the F2 boot select option, the damn laptop just keeps coming back up in XP. I have also tried with the Universal USB installer, but that doesn't seem to be recognised either. I did need to do some messing with the partitions when I re-installed XP, otherwise it just would not start that installation process. Anyone have any pointers? Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicog Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 Maybe try building a bootable USB drive with Rufus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted November 26, 2015 Share Posted November 26, 2015 What error message is Windows 7 giving you? Does it happen to be about BIOS/EUFI or MBR/GPT? If so, as Chicog said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lowprofile Posted November 27, 2015 Author Share Posted November 27, 2015 I've given up with Win 7 and just plan on re-installing Mint, this is just a spare laptop so I'm not too bothered about it. I have tried the Universal UsbI bootable idea and the drive does not get recognised. I might just do a "format C" and see what happens:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmd8800 Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 You might try using a different application to write the ISO image to the USB stick. Unless the ISO is written as a disk image it is not going to boot. Try this application called UNetbootin to write the image: https://unetbootin.github.io/ I have not had an image fail using this application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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