<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Have you tried this approach from the Packard Bell website?<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="http://packard-bell-scandic.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6814/~/enabling-the-boot-device-menu" class="">http://packard-bell-scandic.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6814/~/enabling-the-boot-device-menu</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dave</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Aug 26, 2017, at 4:55 PM, Ian Bruntlett <<a href="mailto:ian.bruntlett@gmail.com" class="">ian.bruntlett@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Hi All,<br class=""><br class=""></div>I've been given this Windows Vista laptop to refurbish. It won't boot from USB. The optical drive believes that any CD-R or DVD-R or DVD-RWs that I attempt to access are all empty so I can't boot like that, either.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I can still download files or copy them onto the hard drive via external USB device.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">One thing I could do is remove the hard drive, connect it to a working system and "do something" to get the lubuntu iso on to the hard drive, put it back in the laptop, boot the laptop from hard drive and install lubuntu by booting the laptop. Is this possible?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BW,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Ian<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">-- ACCU - Professionalism in programming - <a href="http://www.accu.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.accu.org</a><br class=""></div>-- My writing - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/" target="_blank" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/</a><br class=""><div class="">-- Free Software page - <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software" target="_blank" class="">https://sites.google.com/site/ianbruntlett/home/free-software</a><br class=""></div><br class=""> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div></div> -- <br class="">Lubuntu-users mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com" class="">Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br class="">Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>