I know I reset the bios during my initial attempts, but I know that I also went straight to the boot order to make changes, mainly to remove unused ones. Then when I went to the bios and noticed the main HDD was listed first and all the fiasco started with changing the boot order. Funny because when I initially went to use the usb to boot, I just booted like normal and it skipped right to starting windows. Reset to defaults and was able to boot from the jump drive. Seems if I make one change to the bios boot order, even removing or lowering the priority of the non existant IDE CD ROM, nothing boots.
I dont see any other settings in the bios that would be relevant.Īny one have any ideas other than a ext usb DVD rom? Also tried the regular f12 boot menu a bunch. I notice there is an option in there to set a boot device to fixed or removable, neither seemed to change any behavior. I have been in the bios and rearanged the boot order and even removed everything else from the boot order except the USB hdd. Then i tried the memtest usbkeymaker on the Kingston 1 GB which uses a linux setup to boot from and rum memtest. The dos formatted 1gb Kingston showed the same, OS not found. I tried using the hpformat tool and win 98 dos files to make a dos stick and flash the FW to the newest. Has worked on multiple desktops and a notebook. The one i have for myself, a 4GB Kingston stick with 7圆4 on it was made buy simply formatting to NTFS and copying the windows install files onto it. Wanted to get windows reinstalled on it so I tried the official MS usb tool and a few others to make an install thumb drive, as seen here Installing Windows 7 From USB Drive 3 Steps Easy Process All I ever get is an OS not found message. The system will try to start Windows, but if you quickly hit F2 again it takes you into a full Setup menu which enables you to set the boot order.Īnyway, it worked and I've set the netbook to dual boot Linux or Windows 7 (Linux first of course).I have been trying to get this netbook to boot from the usb all day now, but no matter what I do to either an 8gb corsair or 1gb kingston thumb drive it will not boot. This will initially take you into the very restricted Setup menu (which doesn't enable you to change boot order). In case anybody else wants to get to the boot menu, you need to hit F2 when booting the machine. I knew that it must be possible to get to the boot menu, because I've seen other posts on linux forums discussing issues with this particular model of Acer Aspire.
"I finally managed to resolve the problem myself.
Why can't I get the F12 Boot Menu to work on my notebook or netbook? Computers that do not have the F12 Boot Menu feature will not be able to enable the feature within the BIOS." "Note: Not all Acer notebooks or netbooks have the F12 Boot Menu feature. "If the boot menu feature is not available in the BIOS setup menu, then the option is not available on your system."
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