- Jan 16, 2013
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Hello.
I just bought a used HP mini 311 for my wife. It is full of bloatware and other rubbish and I figured that rather than going through and uninstalling all of this crap manually I would just format and do a fresh install of windows 7.
Since it is a netbook I am using a USB stick to install Windows. I am not sure what the deal is, but I cannot get the netbook to boot from the USB stick.
I have put my windows 7 ISO on the thumb drive, and changed the boot order in bios, but then when I save changes and the computer restarts it just proceeds to boot windows.
I have done this procedure a ton of times on various computers and have never had this problem before. I am wondering if there is something weird about netbooks that make it more tricky? or if there is some sort of work-around I can do, perhaps use daemon tools to load the ISO from within windows, create a new partition and install my fresh windows 7, then boot that partition and from within that windows 7 delete the other partitions?
I am stumped here.
I just bought a used HP mini 311 for my wife. It is full of bloatware and other rubbish and I figured that rather than going through and uninstalling all of this crap manually I would just format and do a fresh install of windows 7.
Since it is a netbook I am using a USB stick to install Windows. I am not sure what the deal is, but I cannot get the netbook to boot from the USB stick.
I have put my windows 7 ISO on the thumb drive, and changed the boot order in bios, but then when I save changes and the computer restarts it just proceeds to boot windows.
I have done this procedure a ton of times on various computers and have never had this problem before. I am wondering if there is something weird about netbooks that make it more tricky? or if there is some sort of work-around I can do, perhaps use daemon tools to load the ISO from within windows, create a new partition and install my fresh windows 7, then boot that partition and from within that windows 7 delete the other partitions?
I am stumped here.
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