When I go into the bios (f10) I go into boot and it comes up with first device, second, third and so on. in the options for the boot devices, I try every option and the usb is bootable and plugged in!! trying to replace ME to windows 7. Please help!!!!!
Last edited by mharris3960; 25 Oct 2014 at 19:01.
Now it is saying invalid boot diskette:
insert boot diskette into drive A:
I'm going to take a quick (and educated) guess here & say a system THAT old doesn't allow USB devices to BE bootable.,
early systems w/ USB ports could still only boot from hard drives, floppy drives, optical drives & (opmetimes) a drive on the network.
Fixed the invalid disk part
Then how do you put a new OS sowtware eg.Windows 7 on there using a USB image(iso)?
These systems were never designed to use a USB image for booting, it would have to be on a floppy or cd/dvd.
But you can put it on there with a cd, right?
Actually I believe the iso size is around 3 gigs, which would probably mean a DVD.
The other concern I'd have is the amount of memory ( I think that gateway maxed out at 512mb, I believe win 7 recommends 1 gig & needs 2 to run reasonably well. There are cases where people get it to run w/ less than 1 gig, but I'd expect lousy performance.. I'd also be concerned about getting all the drivers you need for that machine to run win7, as it was designed for ME.
But when I select the dvd drive it doesn't boot of it. Instead it boots into Windows ME
Does your system have a DVD reader, or just a CD player? I believe that system is old enough not to necessarily have a DVD reader/player in it. I also think your chances of getting Win 7 to run on that system are pretty slim.
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