Recent content by mousethief

Weirdly, I fixed by plugging in a bootable USB drive, and setting the order (in the BIOS) to 1. DVD 2. USB 3. HDD When it's set to 1. DVD 2. HDD 3. USB, then it boots to Windows (on the HDD) and tells me Windows is broken (whether or not there's a bootable USB drive plugged in). Thanks for...

I just now installed Windows 7 on my laptop. I now want to boot from an Ubuntu live CD so I can create a bootable thumbdrive. I need functionality I can only get if I boot directly from the CD (rather than from an ISO on my hard drive, say). But it won't let me boot from the DVD. When I try...