I created a flash drive with 12.04 Ubuntu on it, because I want to try it and explore it. I can't get my computer to boot from the drive. I used the suggested pendrive program to format the drive. I opened my boot menu when i started my computer and it didn't have the option to boot from the flash drive. Is there anything I can do or should I just give up and burn it to a disk?
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I have a laptop with Ubuntu installed as the only OS. I also have a USB stick with a Windows 7 installation on it. I want to install Windows from the USB stick on my laptop but when I try to restart the laptop to get access to BIOS, I can't seem to find the command for it, its like it skips everything and just says Ubuntu and then takes me to the login screen.  How do I change the boot priority to USB in Ubuntu?
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I'd like to create a Windows bootable USB stick, but I don't have a Windows machine with me at the moment to do so. How could I achieve the same using Ubuntu?
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I installed a new SSD in my PC laptop which came with an OEM version of Windows 8.  After trying unsuccesfully to get the OEM version of Windows onto the SSD drive I gave up and purchased and downloaded a NEW copy of Windows 8. After that I created an ISO image on my desktop machine and followed the instructions  to create a bootable USB flash drive.  However, after going through the boot install process with the USB flash drive on my laptop I get the following message 'The product key entered does not match any of the Windows images available for installation. Enter a different product key.' But I wasn't asked to enter any key!  Is this because the ISO image was created on a different machine? I really don't get why this should be so difficult.
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I'm currently running Ubuntu 12.04 and want to completely format my laptop so I can install Windows 7 (replace Ubuntu).   When I put in my bootable USB with the OS it just shows a black screen with a white blinking cursor on the top left corner. I wait for hours (to be specific 5 whole hours) waiting for something to happen but I get nothing, so I pull out the USB and my Ubuntu 12.04 loads up.  Repeated this several times with putting different boot priority options on top-est that relate to USB but the results are same. I go and visit some sites on the net like this  that say I have to zero out my hard drive.   My question is how?  Note: Erasing out all my data is no problem cause I have nothing important to backup.  If I have to lose my primary OS (Ubuntu 12.04) in the process I am ready to as my aim is just to install Windows 7 successfully. Please don't answer that there is something wrong with my USB or my USB reader/port/hardware or the content inside the USB cause they all works fine on my brothers PC as it boots up flawlessly.
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I just installed a fresh copy of 12.04 on a new Lenovo ThinkCentere from a USB drive, and when I restarted after installation, the boot sequence didn't find the OS. Instead I got the 'no operating system found' error. When I started Ubuntu from the USB, I could see the HDD and that it had all the installed files. I just couldn't boot into it. It appeared that GRUB was not at the right place... or that there was something funky with the MBR. What is the simplest way to fix these sorts of errors?  Thank you,  EDIT: It appears the problem might have to do with UEFI and GRUB...
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I have used  ever since to install different Linux versions to USB flash drive. But now with Lubuntu 12.04 even though I do the same process by selecting persistence file, it gets created but is never used in Lubuntu. Every time I boot into Lubuntu on flash, it is fresh new Lubuntu without my changes I did last time I have booted it.  Anyone can help me or give me some hints ? Thanks in advance.
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How can I find the files that were stored on my flash drive before I installed Ubuntu to it?   Edit: No, I didn't format it, my files are still on the flash drive root. I just need to know how to access them there.
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I've created a bootable USB of Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit with Rufus, setting the drive to be a GPT for UEFI. Then I booted my tablet PC and I ran the UEFI BIOS, from which I turned secure boot off. I then restarted and went again on the BIOS to boot from my key, but all I got was a black screen that lasted few seconds and then it brought me back to the BIOS. I read about a bootia32.efi file and other procedures that can be followed, but I didn't find a good explanation of what I need to get done. My tablet PC runs an Intel Core Atom Z3735F and has 2 GB of RAM. If you have the answer please let me know.
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The brand new 16.04 final does not boot from USB stick:  Missing parameter in configuration file. Keyword: path gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R image boot :   I made a boot stick with Startup Disk Creator on 14.04 LTS on a Lenovo laptop.  I repeated this process on another computer (Gigabyte Brix) with a another 16.04 image (downloaded from another location) and a different USB stick. Also this computer didn't boot.   Upgrading from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS is probably the most common scenario. How on earth did this get through beta testing??   Edit: in 14.04 LTS there was a similar issue:
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what I want to do is this. I have an external hard disk drive, a SEAGATE expansion 1TB, you can take it a look here:  As you can see this is not a flash usb hard drive, it is a USB hard disk drive. What I want to do is installing Ubuntu in this external hard disk drive... BUT NOT PLACING THE GRUB ON MY C: DRIVE. In other words, I don't want to see the GRUB splash Window asking me every single time if I want to load Windows or Linux. I want my PC turn on or restart and go directly to Windows... BUT... I want to have Linux in my external USB hard disk drive How do I want to load Ubuntu then? Easy, when I restart my computer or just start it... in ASUS mother boards I have the possibility to select the boot device by pressing F8, and I get the boot menu. I want to turn on my computer, press F8, my mother board ask me what drive I want to use to load the Operating Sytem, I select the USB external hard disk drive where do I have Ubuntu, and bingo, I run Ubuntu. When I finish to use Ubuntu, I close it and turn off my computer. Later, I turn on my computer, and if I don't press F8, automatically load the hard disk drive C: and load Windows. My question about this, is what are the necessary steps to install the latest version from Ubuntu, doing exactly this. Not placing the GRUB in my C: hard disk drive, and installing it entirely in the external USB hard disk drive (normal one, not flash one).
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I am looking at this:    I need to create a boot disk to test Ubuntu to make sure it will run on a PC (Compaq Mini CQ10-120LA) I was given. I can create the boot disk off of a Mac (in English) or Windows (but Windows is in Spanish and foreign to me).   Questions:     What format do I choose for the USB stick? (I wish the instructions stated this). What is Dash? (Will I know when I run the installer?) Can I do this from a Mac or Windows computer? Or only from Ubuntu?
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I have no idea how to do this.  I have 7 iso's that I want to be able to easily boot from using a USB Stick and they are:   Windows 7 Ultimate x86 Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Windows 8.1 x64 Hirens BootCD Ultimate BootCD Windows XP Professional Ubuntu   Basically, I want to be able to boot my USB stick and instead of it just loading a single OS (like it does at the moment) I want a list of options ^ like above that I can choose and it will load that OS/ISO.  Any ideas how this can be achieved?
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A few weeks ago my chromebook got crazy and its OS got corrupted for an unknown reason. I'd like to instal Ubuntu 12.04 64bit on it using a bootable USB pendrive, but since it is not the usual installation that I am used to on PCs/laptops....I am a bit stuck and dont even know where to start. I'd simply like to make a pendrive that I can make bootable for my chromebook and do the installation.
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If you are hurrying to reply, System → Administration → StartUp Disk Creator -- no, that's not what I'm talking about.   I want to try Ubuntu 11.04's Unity without touching my existing Ubuntu install.  To do this, I need to install the nVidia drivers first (sigh).  To do this, I need changes to persist a reboot.  To do this, I need to really install Ubuntu on a USB key.  How do you do that?    What I tried   I tried to make a USB key from , then boot from it, then choose "Install Ubuntu." The installer refused to install to the installation media itself. I tried, from my installed copy of Ubuntu:  sudo kvm /dev/sdb --cdrom .cache/testdrive/iso/ubuntu_natty-desktop-i386.iso   ...but the installer didn't detect the disk properly.
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I have a problem I have had before. When I create a USB drive to install Ubuntu 12.04 using startup disk creator, it won't work. It doesn't give me any errors, but when I restart the PC to boot into the USB drive (settings are correct in BIOS), I get the option to: 1) Try Live CD 2) Install Ubuntu 12.04 3) Check the disk  I choose option 2 and after that, nothing happens, just black screen no matter how long I wait.  I tried creating the USB using unetbootin, on both Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7, but same issue.  I have had this problem installing Ubuntu 11.10 too, but it was solved by creating the USB drive in Linux Mint. But I don't have Mint installed now, so I hope someone knows what the problem could be. Thanks in advance!
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after a powr failure when upgrading to Ubuntu 12.10 I have a completely deficient system. It is read only and despite many attempts I failed to remount it read write, fsck and mount -o rmount, rw don't work, recovery mode does not work. I am not experienced with linux and under time pressure because have to write a paper until tomorrow and have only this computer.  Thus I thought it was best to reinstall. I have downloaded the iso on my usb stick on another computer. However, I can't us my startup disk creator as my usb stick is not being recognized as the filesystem is read only. I don't have a bootable usb or disk around (I know that's stupid) and I have no one using linux nearby who could help me create the stick. They all have windows.  Thus my question: Can I create a bootable usb on a windows system but to install on a computer which has Ubuntu on it? The wuby client you can download for windows on the ubuntu site is .exe so it would be no use on a computer that has only linux on it?
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I want to create a recovery flash drive. I have my 8 gb flash drive[Kingston data traveller] with me. I also have the required .iso files for a>Ubuntu 13.10 b>Boot-repair disk c>AVG Rescue CD  I Wish to create 4 partitions(3 for each bootable .iso and one for data storage. Also, I want a way in which I can select which OS to boot each time I boot from USB.   So, is there a way to install GRUB on USB as well as the three other live distros? And how to create such a setup?