<div dir="auto"><div>Thanks, I will give it a go</div><div dir="auto">Chris<br><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 24 Feb 2021, 16:40 Wayland Sothcott via Colchester, <<a href="mailto:colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk">colchester@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hello Chris,<br>
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There are two things you must get right.<br>
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First you must <i>BURN</i> the ISO onto the stick using a tool like
Rufus on Windows;<br>
<a href="https://rufus.ie/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://rufus.ie/</a><br>
This is not the same as copying the ISO file to the stick.<br>
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Rufus is so good I keep a Windows 7 laptop just for this purpose.<br>
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Secondly you've gotta get your target PC to boot off the USB. Put
the USB stick into a USB 2 port on the back of the PC (a black one
not a blue one). If you clear the BIOS CMOS of the computer first it
will probably default to being able to boot USB. You may find it
helpful to enter the BIOS (usually by mashing F2 when it boots) then
see if the USB stick is showing up as a hard drive or boot device
then selecting it as the first boot option.<br>
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Really you just have to keep hacking away at this problem until you
figure it out. Each MoBo manufacturer does things a little
differently. You might want to look up how it's done on your board.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Wayland.<br>
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<div>On 24/02/2021 16:17, christopher ransom
via Colchester wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi, I’m chris and I want to try out Linux,
eventually to move from windows. I have tried various sites<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">But find them difficult to work from. I
have an old PC and spare hard drive. I’ve tried to load the
hard drive with <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A Linux ISO using a USB docking station. I
loaded the ISO on but when I put it in the old <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">PC it would not boot. I have downloaded
Linux before on a usb stick but I want to learn how to
partition this old hard drive ect. Can I do it using a USB
docking station.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Regards chris<u></u><u></u></p>
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