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Difficulty using Zorin to replace Windows 10

swarfendor437 May 7, 2026, 5:33am 7

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Today I successfully installed a different distro to Zorin on a client's Acer notebook with Windows 10 on it and hit a few barriers before succeeding. First, press F2 to enter the BIOS. One setting I changed was to enable the F12 key. This is to use it at boot time to choose what to boot from. I was using a thumb drive with Ventoy that had multiple .iso's on it. The Hard drive was set to AHCI so no need to change that. When disabling UEFI to Legacy in Boot order screen, the boot order became …

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