They have different ways to try and fix your System. I have stumbled across a few topics like , so others are having the same issue but I can not find any solutions to the issue. Shown as follow: Step 5: Press F10 to save the setting and Exit. I did a chkdsk and no errors were found. It is not under warranty, and I am not paying for Gateway support at this point. I have tried to do a startup recovery, but no problems were found and it did not solve the problem.
Once your computer restarts, it will boot using your new boot order priority. For Windows starting from 7 , use the Rufus utility :. They advised me against it with acer recovery partion or whatever but they told me what I already know. You may or may not need an adapter. In our case, they are at the bottom of the screen. Select Legacy Diskette A: 3. Although I got it working.
I have read that gateway has done this with the newer books on purpose locked the pre-installed os into the machine , but a quick phone call to customer support confirmed what I thought. I am cleaning the win 10 and will tell her thats all i can do. I did those but no avail. I recently decided to kick Vista to the curb and install Ubuntu on my Gateway laptop. Power your computer on, please hold the F1 key. Same is true if i f12 into boot manager.
If I have to, I will simply edit the bootloader manually to boot from. Above link shows what the process looks like, and a how-to, as it loads to the Repair Options. . You can do a Startup Repair, System Restore, etc from it. They have done no such thing with this model and there is no reason it should not boot to usb.
It is Gateways's Recovery Process, not Microsoft's. But, you should check the current bios level amongst the same Dell model. Power your computer on, please hold the F2 key. In general, however, as the computer boots up, some important keyboard strokes are noted somewhere prominent on the screen. Locate the boot order screen that lists the boot devices. I ended up getting a new hard drive for the computer, and it is up and running. .
I hope it work for all of you. Im really at a loss as what could be causing my issue. . You were supposed to have made Recovery disks. Then select boot manager to choose a new boot device or to boot recovery media.
Click here to see more. But, old Windows were already erased from hard drive,so I can not boot anyhow. But you can choose Removable Device as the first boot device. I was able to install an old version of Unbuntu 9. I am not really sure either. Press Escape to bring up the Boot Menu. Step 2: Power on or restart computer.
The boot order is a priority list. This may be on the Boot tab itself or beneath a Boot Order option. This allows you to boot from a specific hardware device once without changing your boot order permanently. Select the Boot tab using the right and left arrow keys. Click on the hard drive icons to open them up and figure out which drive is which. And,also,there is no window for formatting C drive during installation. I am on it now However.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download the Vista Burning software from the above link. For whatever reason, it just wants to be stubborn. Tip: If you want your computer to boot from , now insert Windows password reset usb disk to computer and press enter key to go on. Its been several hours and all reading and everything I done been useless. If so mods please move this post. F12 Boot menu only displays a single windows hdd, nothing else. But it worked, and is currently updating.