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BIOS Issue
I recently bought a Lenovo Ideapad for my wife which came with windows 8 pre-installed on it. Needless to say it didn't take long for her to realize that windows 8 is not worth the trouble on a non touch screen pc or laptop(Even though I tried to explain it to her beforehand heh). Anyways, I told her that I would install windows 7 on it for her so I proceeded to set up a usb stick with a windows 7 install since the Ideapad does not come with a disc drive but I quickly ran into problems once I got windows 7 installed, since there are partitions that are locked on the HDD and it says the only way to delete them is through booting from the OS install disc. I tried setting the boot order in the BIOS so that it would boot from USB flash drives but it would not do it for some reason and after I changed that setting and tried a few more installs of windows 7 from within the OS the BIOS decided to stop working. I have tried everything I can think of to get to the BIOS but it seems like it has just been deleted from the system somehow. I have tried the OneTouch button on the side and it will give me a menu on boot to go to the BIOS but when I select that option it just boots right into the OS like there is no BIOS. I bought a external disc drive to try the install that way, thinking that it should allow me to boot from that drive to install the OS but to no avail. I managed to delete most of the partitions containing the largest space and have windows 7 now installed on the SSD with about 4 Gigs to spare lol. This problem is really bugging me as I don't like having those partitions sitting there and I especially don't like that the BIOS is not accessable. My question to you all is this:
Is there a way to get to the BIOS from within the OS once booted up? Or is there a way to make the laptop reboot and go directly into the BIOS?
Please any help is welcome as I am at the end of the line here as far as my knowledge can take me.