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cant boot off of usb off one computer but can with the other

Asked by Dylan Parsons

My acer aspire 3100 has a broken os and i thought if i downloaded ubuntu and then reinstall my windows i would be rocking soo i used my good computer (acer aspire 5517) and dowloaded the ubuntu iso image. i then used the unetboot tool and turned off my good computer then rebooted it. i got the messege to boot off of the stick with the iso image on it but this isnt the computer i want to do it to so i pluged it into my acer aspire 3100 and got no luck any help would be appreciated

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Ubfan (ubfan1) said : 		#1

You probably have to change the boot order in the BIOS. On powerup, the first screen is usually a vendor splash screen with some text to change the boot order, or get into the BIOS setup. Typical keys are ESC, DEL, F10, etc. varies by machine. Once in the BIOS setup, find the boot order, and move the usb key or disk to be before the internal hard disk. save and exit. The next reboot should find the Ubuntu stick.

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Dylan Parsons (piperkoda) said : 		#2

I already tried that i set it to usb key on both computers got it to work on the aspire 5517 but not on the computer with the broken os

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marcus aurelius (adbiz) said : 		#3

try plugging it into another usb port.

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Dylan Parsons (piperkoda) said : 		#4

pi pluged it into all of my usb ports and my dvd drive is fried

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

You have to check MD5 of downloaded ISO: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToMD5SUM
When you try to boot from USB key, what happens exactly ?
   The LED of USB stick is ON ?
   You get a screen with "Install"/"Try without" ?
   The BIOS search for bootable device fails ?

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