0

I have a Lenovo IdeaPad 100s that came with win 10 installed. That os occupies the majority of the ssd drive. Constant persistant ridiculous harrassment to upgrade win10 which requires 8 gigs when there is only 1.8 gigs free space despite no significant files has led me to want to eliminate win10 in favour of Linux. But despite having a verified usb iso win10 seems to overide any attempt at an external boot. I would like someone to point me to a download os wiper that is simple to use.

David Nicholls
  • 1
  • 1
    Maybe you have to turn off secure boot (in a UEFI/BIOS menu) for the system to boot from USB. If that does not help, can you use another computer to test that your USB boot drive is good and can really boot a computer? – sudodus Mar 11 '18 at 12:57
  • When your done with that GPart Live CD will wipe the drive. – EODCraft Staff Mar 11 '18 at 12:59
  • 1
    You have one of the 32 bit UEFI, even though system is 64 bit. It was created as Linux did not have a 32 bitr UEFI and they wanted a Windows only system. But now there is 32 bit Linux UEFI boot - bootia32.efi which you can also download. https://askubuntu.com/questions/392719/32-bit-uefi-boot-support LENOVO Ideapad 100 Laptop 16.04 Dual Boot https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2336544 LENOVO Ideapad 100S Laptop 32 bit UEFI bootia32.efi https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2350606 & https://askubuntu.com/questions/775498/ubuntu-on-32-bit-uefi-only-based-tablet-pc – oldfred Mar 11 '18 at 16:02

2 Answers2

0

You can use DBAN to clear a disc

However, if you can't boot into the Ubuntu installer then you probably won't be able to boot into this either.

Have you tried booting to a USB from the Advanced Startup?

I've known people unable to USB boot otherwise to have success with that method.

In the same menu you might also be able to access the BIOS settings and disable secure boot which can also be preventing you from booting from USB.

Baa
  • 3,452
0

Found the solution. Actually very simple on the Lenovo Ideapad. Use Novo button, select recovery, opt for external os input from iso usb. The Linux install overwrites the win partition.

pLumo
  • 26,947
user805476
  • 1