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I have a couple of HP Prodesk 600 G3 Mini PCs.  They work fine but I cannot get them to recognize and boot from an external DVD drive or from a USB stick.  They will recognize the presence of the drive or stick once it is booted up, but I would like to replace the internal Harddrive and install Windows or Linux but they won't let me.

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@Kurt_Holm 

 

You have to tell BIOS (if applicable). Plea try

 

            https://lifehacker.com/how-to-boot-from-a-usb-drive-or-cd-on-any-computer-5991848

 

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BH
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That's an excellent page explaining what to do, except I tried those things already.  When I go into the BIOS and the Boot Options, I can see that the system is recognizing the USB stick or DVD drive.  I move them to be the first in the boot order but startup passes over them.  If I press F9 ( I think that's the one for alternate boot choices) it gives me a choice to select what I want but it won't boot that way --- the menu returns with the selection "Continue Boot" highlighted and then it just tries to boot off the hard drive again.  It almost seems as if there is a jumper or some setting in the BIOS that prevents someone from booting the PC that way. 

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So, I tried several different CD/DVDs and finally got a Windows 10 Upgrade DVD to be recognized.  But I still got an error.  Here is a screen shot:

 

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I've never seen this before, usually PCs just boot.  I'm beginning to think someone had messed with the BIOS or something else with this PC.  Is there some way to flash the BIOS back to the original, factory shipped defaults?

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