need help asap

[Matt Wakey]

so i was trying to get windows on my usb and i accedentally started installing it on my friends laptop.

please help i dont know how to cancel it.

[Bogica]

Hold power button until shutdown, Unplug USB, Press power button again, laptop boots normally.

[Guest]

The usb take it off now unplug

[Matt Wakey]

Hold power button until shutdown, Unplug USB, Press power button again, laptop boots normally.

i started installing windows 8.1 onto his hard drive though 

[Bogica]

i started installing windows 8.1 onto his hard drive though 

If it already did a format of the hard drive and started unpacking the files then there is nothing you can do except finish the setup, it's too late by that stage.

[Matt Wakey]

If it already did a format of the hard drive and started unpacking the files then there is nothing you can do except finish the setup, it's too late by that stage.

surely there must be a way

[Firearm2112]

How do you accidently install it? Dont you have to restart, press F5 or whatever, choose the USB and so on?

[Matt Wakey]

How do you accidently install it? Dont you have to restart, press F5 or whatever, choose the USB and so on?

youre supposed to install it onto the usb, i choose the hard drive...

[Firearm2112]

youre supposed to install it onto the usb, i choose the hard drive...

So is it completely installed now, or did you rip it out in time and rebooted?

[Matt Wakey]

So is it completely installed now, or did you rip it out in time and rebooted?

no, i just stopped the install

[Bogica]

surely there must be a way

Did you or did you not format the hard drive partition with the existing operating system?

[Guest]

So you "accidently" install windows on a laptop, son i think you just loss your master pc race card.