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Originally Posted by bpcyclist
Complete space-O-zombie right now. Have been having all kinds of problems with this computer with Win 10 basically broken and just finally got so fed up last night that I decided to do the unthinkable and install a new OS. Which would be no issue, if I knew how to do that--but I really do not. At all. What's a BIOS? A total computer moron here. At one point, I managed to eliminate all boot options. Nice job, cyclist!! What an expert!
Anyhow, ended up working for about 4 hours doing al this stuff and I am at least now where I have a little linux OS I can get online with, so, partial success. Yeah!! Not able to install it on the hard drive. I think this hard drive is toast, I really do. But it will have to do for now. No budget for new puter.
So, finished that up at about 5 AM. Slept very briefly and woke up ready to go. Lotta trouble with voices while I was working last night. Paranoid out of my mind. People watching me through the walls, recording me, blah, bleeh, blooh. How is it that my neighbors are always magically awake at, like, 3 or 4 0r 5 in the morning when I am? How can that possibly be? Who does that, besides a bp 1 person?
I dunno. Just have to make it to pdoc appt. in couple of weeks. Maybe hit the Clozaril train. We shall see.
So happy and excited that some people are feeling better and pretty solid!! That is so awesome!! So sorry for folks still struggling! Right there with you! We will march through this together, Somehow, Some way.
Love and support to all my wonderful PC friends!
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There is a PXE boot option and an option to boot from USB device. If you have a CD drive, you can boot from a CD as well.
USB device is probably the easiest to boot from, so long as you have an ISO of whatever OS you're planning to use. Just select it in the BIOS screen on boot by repeatedly pressing ESC, F11, or F2 (depending on your computer's make and model). You can choose where to install the OS to. You cannot delete the PXE or USB boot options from the BIOS screen.
When you install any OS (Windows, Ubuntu, etc.), you have the option to install to your HDD or SSD (if you have one), and even install to a specific partition, if you created any. Perhaps you skipped through that part where it asked you which one to install to? It HAS to be installed on your HDD or SSD. Also, Ubuntu and other OS's let you choose partitions and everything upon boot from the ISO.
What I recommend is going back to the BIOS screen, choosing the boot option (probably USB if you have a copy on a USB drive... otherwise do PXE boot), and choosing a specific partition to install your OS to. Usually the installer lets you create a partition, and I think it is safer long term to have partitions for these things in case you want to put windows back on your machine to dual boot it, rather than using some crappy windows emulator like Wine.