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I am currently running Windows 7. I'm not quite sure how to get this to boot into Ubuntu. I have the usb stick in drive, and I restart the computer, but nothing changes. I tried f12 before the windows startup prompt, still nothing. I downloaded 12.04 i386 using the steps in "Pen Drive USB Linux's installer" on this site. I can go into "devices" and browse files on the usb, but I can't get the option to "try Ubuntu". What am I missing? Also, in the usb download, there was 12.04 i386 and 12.04 amd. What's the difference? What am I missing? Thanks.

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I see what's going on here. You are rebooting the machine, but your machine is booting back to the hard drive (with Windows 7 on it), and NOT to the USB stick.

Computers look at a specific device to boot from, and yours is set to boot from the hard drive. You simply need to change this to boot into the USB stick (and into the live Ubuntu environment).

To accomplish this, you should do one of two things:

  1. Find out which key (delete, escape, F12, etc) loads your computer's BOOT MENU. You should tap this key repeatedly as soon as the machine boots. When the boot menu appears select the USB device.

  2. You need to go into your machine's BIOS and change the BOOT ORDER so that the machine tries to boot to a USB device before the hard drive. Getting to the BIOS and changing the boot order will vary between each different machine, Google has pretty good search functionality, so you could try that.

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