On certain newer systems, you can go into the BIOS at the computer start, and tell the computer to look at another drive first.
e.g.: In the old days, the computer was made to seek on the A: floppy drive first, if no disk, then it would go to the C: drive. Similarly you can tell the system to ignore external drives - floppy, CD, DVD ... You will need to create a bootable USB stick, then change the BIOS to boot off the USB port, and off you go. =========================== To create a bootable USB stick - must be a clean stick. This will clean the stick and DELETE all data oon the disk. >From the DOS BOX via <cmd>: Diskpart List disk Gives disk #'s Select disk <#> MAKE SURE THIS IS THE USB STICK! Clean Create partition primary Active Format fs=fat32 quick Assign Exit Then load the OS you want to install on the USB stick then load the OS using normal commands. =========================== -= Cß =-
