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Thread Author: Robin O'Reliant Replies: 10
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 21:38 
 Laptop boot menu - Robin O'Reliant
How do I make my laptop boot from the USB drive?
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 21:46 
 Laptop boot menu - Zero
You may need to go into the bios and enable a boot sequence, and then there may a be a key to press at startup for the boot menu

what laptop is it?
Last edited by: Zero on Sat 6 Feb 16 at 21:47
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 21:51 
 Laptop boot menu - Robin O'Reliant
Compaq
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 21:57 
 Laptop boot menu - Zero
>> Compaq

Well thats narrowed it down to 500 models over 30 years.

Model?

( sigh )
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 22:00 
 Laptop boot menu - Robin O'Reliant
God knows, it's about two years old.
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 22:13 
 Laptop boot menu - sooty123
There'll be a sticker underneath it. The model will be on that.
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 22:17 
 Laptop boot menu - Zero
Ok - firstly Compaqs need the USB boot drive with a boot partition on it in when you power it up

Turn it on, keep pressing the ESC key
You should get a menu with F9 listed as boot menu, press F9 and select USB


I have a question, why you doing this? you know you can screw the PC rigid from another OS booted?
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 23:38 
 Laptop boot menu - Roger.
You surely need to make sure that your machine will boot, as first option, from whatever type of media is loaded with your system rescue data, whether this a USB or a DVD.
It's pretty easy to do once in the BIOS menu.
To get there, it generally needs you to tap one of the function keys on starting up your PC - the specific F key can vary from make to make, but a search on the internet could give you the most likely one for your Compaq.
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New Sat 6 Feb 16 23:45 
 Laptop boot menu - Roger.
On my ACER laptop it's the F2 key!
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New Sun 7 Feb 16 11:01 
 Laptop boot menu - Robin O'Reliant
>> Turn it on, keep pressing the ESC key
>> You should get a menu with F9 listed as boot menu, press F9 and select
>> USB

The Esc key did the trick, thanks.

Not tried yet but I want to use the machine for Linux. It is not my main pc and I rarely use it now.
Last edited by: VxFan on Mon 8 Feb 16 at 00:54
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New Sun 7 Feb 16 15:13 
 Laptop boot menu - devonite
Why not set it up as dual boot?(from the H/D) - some Linux distro's allow you to set this up, so that you can boot into Either windows or linux at start-up.
Last edited by: devonite on Sun 7 Feb 16 at 15:14
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