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    HP ProBook 4430s - Can't boot from external hard drive

    Discussion in 'HP Business Class Notebooks' started by Duplicated, Sep 8, 2012.

  1. Duplicated

    Duplicated Notebook Geek

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    So I just bought this new HP ProBook for classes, but there are so many HP bloatware craps that I decide I'm just going to clean install Win7 Pro instead of manually uninstalling them.

    The problem is, no matter how I set the boot order in BIOS setup to boot from USB external disk (it did saw the drive in BIOS page), the laptop always booted into its internal hard drive first, completely bypassing the boot order config. I downloaded the ISO file from Digital River, and I used my 2TB WD external drive to act as a usb drive.

    Did I do something wrong here anyone?
     
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    Shemmy Notebook Evangelist

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    Shemmy, Sep 8, 2012
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  3. Duplicated

    Duplicated Notebook Geek

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    Will try that after newegg send me the 16GB flash drive. Thanks for the suggestion.
     
    Duplicated, Sep 9, 2012
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