Take it to the next plug talk for hands on help. -T
On Mon, Mar 31, 2025, 10:03 Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > > I just realized your problem probably is getting the thing to boot off > the > > stick in the first place. That's a chicken-and-egg problem because you > have > > to boot from a stick so that the existing disk is not active in order to > zap > > it > > Ted, > > I changed the boot order but it's ignoring that. > > > If the turning off uefi boot does not work in bios then if it's running > > win10 and you can login to it, hold down shift and click restart that > will > > get you into windows recovery and you might be able to select the boot > > stick from there. > > It runs win11, apparently. > > > In worst case pull the disk, put it in a dock, and wipe it then reinsert > it. > > Once the bios sees no bootable anything on the disk it will fall through > to > > the next bootable thing, the usb stick. > > This is a _very_ thin laptop with two small screws on the bottom. Much > different from any portable I've worked on before. Closed, from table to > top > of the cover it's 1". I suspect the storage is on a chip, not an SSD and > certainly not a HD. > > Thanks, > > Rich >
