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Booting from USB not working

MohsenA
By MohsenA
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So I swapped motherboards and I need to reinstall windows. I use my brother's pc to switch it from cd to USB. When I plugged the USB into my pc and adjusted the settings so that it boots from the flash drive, I get this error on startup: please insert proper boot drive (or something like that)

I followed linus's guide to doing this and I still get this error..

Any advice?

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Make sure you're properly making a bootable USB stick.

You can use Rufus, an open-source tool for making bootable USB drives

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But I don have an ISO file for windows 7, or am I just confused?

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