Can't boot from USB - 11.04 / Exopc

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Published on 2011-05-10T22:26:38Z Indexed on 2012/04/07 5:44 UTC
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I can't find the answer to this anywhere. I am new to Ubuntu, please help!

I have a wetab, except now I don't, because I put Ubuntu 10.10 over the top of it (meant to dual boot, but that's another story). I upgraded to 11.04 out of curiosity. It's good, but not for touchscreen tablets - no multi touch for example.

I want to get back the wetab OS now. I have all the files, and I have a bootable gparted USB stick. The problem is I can't seem to boot from USB.

The "wetab" PC is actually an ExoPC, so it has only the hardware button and a soft button in the top corner. Using the wetab OS method of reaching BIOS with the hard and soft buttons doesn't work now, I only get a menu asking if I want to run Ubuntu in recovery mode, run a limited command line, or do a memory check. I need to either repartition the drive so I can dual boot with WeTabOS, or just wipe over Ubuntu and start again.

How do I do this? I have also tried hammering F11, Del, F8, F1, many other combinations!

Edit: I do have access to USB keyboard and mouse

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