Built computer-installing os - booted from wrong place and can't reverse

sputterbug10 · Jul 17, 2016

I have windows 7 ultimate 64-bit OEM on a bootable usb. I used microsofts download tool but it wouldn't format it in FAT32 so I used Rufus. Anyway, I forgot to set boot priority to the usb drive and it booted from the external drive I hooked up that still had dell repair/reinstall disc for my other computer. A WINDOWS IS LOADINGFILES message came up, than a dialog box where you pick English or whatever but you can't do anything in that box. Can't get a cursor or keyboard to work and can't close it. That's when I figured out what I did. I have gone in and set the boot priority to the usb drive but it still brings up the windows screen that doesn't do anything. I cannot get it to boot from the bootable windows 7 usb drive. the UEFI USB and non-UEFI USB are priority one and 2 and the ssd is number 3 and I unhooked the hdd so it wouldn't store the os there. What can I do?

DavidJT · Jul 18, 2016

If you press DEL or F2 when it's booting and look at the bios boot order
maybe you can change the boot order to boot from the HDD and not the USB

sputterbug10 · Jul 18, 2016

but the os is on the usb not the hdd. I even put the oem OS on a dvd and it still gets stuck. keyboard and mouse become inoperable. Here a pic of the screen - whoops guess I can download the pic.

wpgwpg · Jul 19, 2016

If you have a UEFI system, you probably need to turn off secure boot. Even some PCs simply won't boot from a flash drive; I have one like that myself. I see so many problems from folks trying to boot from flash drives when for years everybody booted from DVDs and didn't have these problems - food for thought.

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