A problem that is taking me months to find a way to fix....

heroleo said:

You may need to reset your BIOS settings to default settings before installing the Windows operating system.

Tried it and now "BOOTMGR is missing Press Crtl+Alt+Del to restart" appeared, how to fix it?

You would need the product key before 30 days as that's how long they give you to activate. I don't know about the Boot Manager thing.

If you have burned the W7 dvd as suggested earlier (assume you'll need another laptop to do this), then just try installing with it.

If your Dad is away with the disc and product key for more than 30 days you could still use the laptop with a live linux usb without installing anything. You'd need access to someone's laptop, and an empty usb stick/pendrive - download the iso (Xubuntu LTS is quite good) onto the laptop - then you can either burn a dvd and run it live from dvd, or install something like unetbootin to make a bootable usb. You don't have to install it at all, but can install it if you want to.

I would burn the 14.04 Long term release one (LTS) - left hand link - it seems to work on just about any computer.

Xubuntu

hazel123 said:

You would need the product key before 30 days as that's how long they give you to activate. I don't know about the Boot Manager thing.

If you have burned the W7 dvd as suggested earlier (assume you'll need another laptop to do this), then just try installing with it.

If your Dad is away with the disc and product key for more than 30 days you could still use the laptop with a live linux usb without installing anything. You'd need access to someone's laptop, and an empty usb stick/pendrive - download the iso (Xubuntu LTS is quite good) onto the laptop - then you can either burn a dvd and run it live from dvd, or install something like unetbootin to make a bootable usb. You don't have to install it at all, but can install it if you want to.

I would burn the 14.04 Long term release one (LTS) - left hand link - it seems to work on just about any computer.

Xubuntu

Thanks but i dont have a dvd to burn and can i burn the usb instead so it will work? cuz im used to windows for years and i dont know other Operating Systems

also i used usb to make it an installation one and not dvd :)
lastly, im just using a netbook at my alternative and it dont have a place for dvd to be inserted

You may be getting the error for having an incompatible Recovery Disk/installation media etc.

Personally, the only time I saw this error is while trying to install from an evaluation server 2012 iso which has expired. After downloading a new one from MS Eval center all was good.

Bene4Lyf said:

hazel123 said:

You would need the product key before 30 days as that's how long they give you to activate. I don't know about the Boot Manager thing.

If you have burned the W7 dvd as suggested earlier (assume you'll need another laptop to do this), then just try installing with it.

If your Dad is away with the disc and product key for more than 30 days you could still use the laptop with a live linux usb without installing anything. You'd need access to someone's laptop, and an empty usb stick/pendrive - download the iso (Xubuntu LTS is quite good) onto the laptop - then you can either burn a dvd and run it live from dvd, or install something like unetbootin to make a bootable usb. You don't have to install it at all, but can install it if you want to.

I would burn the 14.04 Long term release one (LTS) - left hand link - it seems to work on just about any computer.

Xubuntu

Thanks but i dont have a dvd to burn and can i burn the usb instead so it will work? cuz im used to windows for years and i dont know other Operating Systems

also i used usb to make it an installation one and not dvd :)
lastly, im just using a netbook at my alternative and it dont have a place for dvd to be inserted

It was just a suggestion to be able to do some stuff on your computer if you can't get it activated with Windows. You can burn Xubuntu to usb as well. It just runs live from the usb stick so you can still install windows to your hard drive. It's a fairly straightforward easy one to use and if it's just for internet access you only need the browser in it really.

Which netbook is it? I've installed Windows on a few netbooks, but only via a Windows disc with a portable dvd drive.

Are you sure there isn't a recovery option built in? Asus netbooks had an option to press F something (sometimes F8) to reset to factory settings.

hazel123 said:

Bene4Lyf said:

hazel123 said:

You would need the product key before 30 days as that's how long they give you to activate. I don't know about the Boot Manager thing.

If you have burned the W7 dvd as suggested earlier (assume you'll need another laptop to do this), then just try installing with it.

If your Dad is away with the disc and product key for more than 30 days you could still use the laptop with a live linux usb without installing anything. You'd need access to someone's laptop, and an empty usb stick/pendrive - download the iso (Xubuntu LTS is quite good) onto the laptop - then you can either burn a dvd and run it live from dvd, or install something like unetbootin to make a bootable usb. You don't have to install it at all, but can install it if you want to.

I would burn the 14.04 Long term release one (LTS) - left hand link - it seems to work on just about any computer.

Xubuntu

Thanks but i dont have a dvd to burn and can i burn the usb instead so it will work? cuz im used to windows for years and i dont know other Operating Systems

also i used usb to make it an installation one and not dvd :)
lastly, im just using a netbook at my alternative and it dont have a place for dvd to be inserted

It was just a suggestion to be able to do some stuff on your computer if you can't get it activated with Windows. You can burn Xubuntu to usb as well. It just runs live from the usb stick so you can still install windows to your hard drive. It's a fairly straightforward easy one to use and if it's just for internet access you only need the browser in it really.

Which netbook is it? I've installed Windows on a few netbooks, but only via a Windows disc with a portable dvd drive.

Are you sure there isn't a recovery option built in? Asus netbooks had an option to press F something (sometimes F8) to reset to factory settings.

I'll try the xubuntu one an i have a question, if it is a live one, will it work even the usb stick is not inserted?

I also tried the unetbootin but it showed me the "Operating System not found" error message

Also i dont think so since i only use that netbook for my Microsoft Word/Excel/Powerpoint Projects and some scholl stuffs. but i think it has the recovery option i just dont know where it is since that netbook never had an issue like these minor//major errors

As AddRam says, you need the usb stick plugged into the machine. On the Asus netbooks you hit the escape key repeatedly when you switch the machine on and the boot menu appears. You then select the usb stick. Rather than install, it then runs the operating system directly from the USB.

Anyway - you might need your netbook manual to find out how to access the recovery partition. You said your Dad had the disc and product key with him - so maybe you had a clean install - in which case there wouldn't be a recovery partition.

I haven't tried Zorin I know you can make the latest Xubuntu look a bit like windows by changing the colour scheme, so it can be more familiar.

This link explains how to install it to a usb drive and suggests using Pen Drive Linux rather than unetbootin (it's for Ubuntu rather than Xubuntu but same instructions apply).

How to create a bootable USB stick on Windows | Ubuntu

Obviously you'd need to do this on someone else's laptop. Download the Linux OS (whether it's xubuntu or zorin) onto the computer - download the pendrive linux program and then follow the instructions.

Where are you at with trying to get Windows 7 back on the netbook? There are tutorials on here on how/where to download it and burn it to usb.

If you've got files on the laptop I wouldn't install though, just run it live - you might be able to recover some of them later.

hazel123 said:

As AddRam says, you need the usb stick plugged into the machine. On the Asus netbooks you hit the escape key repeatedly when you switch the machine on and the boot menu appears. You then select the usb stick. Rather than install, it then runs the operating system directly from the USB.

Anyway - you might need your netbook manual to find out how to access the recovery partition. You said your Dad had the disc and product key with him - so maybe you had a clean install - in which case there wouldn't be a recovery partition.

I haven't tried Zorin I know you can make the latest Xubuntu look a bit like windows by changing the colour scheme, so it can be more familiar.

This link explains how to install it to a usb drive and suggests using Pen Drive Linux rather than unetbootin (it's for Ubuntu rather than Xubuntu but same instructions apply).

How to create a bootable USB stick on Windows | Ubuntu

Obviously you'd need to do this on someone else's laptop. Download the Linux OS (whether it's xubuntu or zorin) onto the computer - download the pendrive linux program and then follow the instructions.

Where are you at with trying to get Windows 7 back on the netbook? There are tutorials on here on how/where to download it and burn it to usb.

If you've got files on the laptop I wouldn't install though, just run it live - you might be able to recover some of them later.

Im not installing the windows 7 in the netbook instead in my DELL LAPTOP AND IM JUST USING MY NETBOOK TO MAKE THE BOOTABLE USB (capsed it sine i think u guys are talking about doing a clean install in the fully functioning netbook instead of the laptop that has the ntoskrnl.exe

I also tried to go to the f8 of my dell laptop but it dont show the "repair your computer" that will put me in the recovery options

Now i see that u guys are talking about the other device im using instead of the laptop that needs the help of everyone...

Also why would i go to recovery options and reinstall the netbook if its the "someone elses laptop//my sister's" and its not what im fixing and what im fixing is the laptop?

So confused

AddRAM said:

Of course you have to insert the usb stick to run ubuntu. If there`s a recovery partition, watch the screen when you boot the netbook, it will show which key to push to start the recover process.

For ubuntu, You have to insert the usb stick, then use the 1 time boot menu key (if the PC has that option) to boot from the usb stick, you can then run ubuntu, you`ll be given 2 options

Try it or install it, just choose Try it.

Personally I prefer Zorin

Zorin OS - Download

Thanks but i will try the ubuntu since its more fammiliar to me than zorin os