I have an old laptop. It's the last scrap and I downloaded an iso file on my new laptop and made a usb stick bootable and so on. If I plug in the USB stick and then press the F12 key, I enter the BIOS. If I would then select the USB stick, could I use the stick as a drive for the laptop without damaging my Windows on the internal hard drive? I'm not familiar with the bios, and I don't want to destroy the laptop.
Right. This is how a live system works.
But you can have access to the hard drive and then make changes there. So be careful.
Yes you can boot the USB stick safely. If, however, there's no live system on the USB, but an ISO that wants to install an operating system, you can delete the Windows partitions if you are not careful.
Mfg Jannick (L1nd)
If you boot from a USB stick, you won't damage the hard drive, by the way, if you want to make the laptop work again it might be worthwhile to install Windows Linux instead.
I only want to change the boot drive for this one start process so that it boots from the Windows hard drive again when you restart
Yes, no problem, you did exactly the right thing and had the right thoughts on it.
I'm not sure about the decision yet, so I want to test it with the USB stick first.
It doesn't matter. If you change the order, the PC will check one by one whether it can boot from the devices. If there's no longer a bootable USB stick, he takes the hard drive.
Right. Thank you for the information. I had already forgotten that.
As long as you do not do anything with the hard drive built into the device, ie delete files, etc. Nothing can happen to the windows on the device.
OK.
