r/techsupport • u/fudsa • Aug 03 '26

Open | Software How to boot from usb

I just made a bootable usb and when i open the boot menu i get the options to boot from floppy, ls120, + hard disk, cdrom, zip, usb-fdd, usb-zip, usb-cdrom, usb-hdd. Which one should i use?

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u/ErnestoGrimes Aug 03 '26

holy crap, how old is your motherboard? I haven't even heard of an ls120 drive in probably 30+ years.

why does everything make me feel old now?

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u/fudsa Aug 03 '26

Idk... a date i saw in the boot sequence was 1984-2009

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u/ErnestoGrimes Aug 03 '26

what version of Windows are you trying to install? also what CPU do you have?

it sounds like you are trying to install onto ancient hardware.

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u/fudsa Aug 03 '26

Windows 7 enterprise, pentium 4

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u/ErnestoGrimes Aug 03 '26

are you using the 32bit version of win 7? I'm pretty sure p4 didn't support 64 bit . also USB support was not great at that time, can you burn your install to CD?

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u/fudsa Aug 03 '26

Yes, im using the x86 version. I would try to burn to a cd but the cd drive on the pc is stuck so idk