<div>the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot<br><br></div> <div class="gmail_quote">On 15 September 2010 08:33, Glen Mehn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glen.mehn@oba.co.uk">glen.mehn@oba.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote"> <div class="im"> On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote:<br> <blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">what's that ment to do<br><br></blockquote></div>Hi Jacob,<br><br>That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be able to boot to a USB stick.<br> <br>The thing is, when you run via WUBI, you run in a container on an NTFS filesystem. That may sound like gobbledygook, but what it means is that linux will have no control over the fragmentation (are all the bits of the files in the same place on the disk) and you may suffer some performance limitations. Wubi's a good solution, but there's no way from within Wubi to directly install linux (someone shout if I'm wrong).<br> <br>I think if you get a linux install from, say, pendrivelinux, and then use the f12 as suggested by Tommy, you'll be able to reinstall over your Windows 7, which is what you suggested you wanted to do.<br><br>Glen<br> <font color="#888888"><br>-- <br></font> <div class="im">Glen Mehn<br><a href="mailto:glen.mehn@oba.co.uk" target="_blank">glen.mehn@oba.co.uk</a><br></div> <div> <div></div> <div class="h5">skype: glenmehn | blog: <a href="http://glen.mehn.net/mba" target="_blank">http://glen.mehn.net/mba</a><br>UK: +44(0)7942 675 755 | US: +1 415 704 4737<br><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br>