Installing Windows 7 off a USB drive on an HP Mini 2140. Posted on March 11. Install Windows 7 on an HP Mini 2140 netbook using a USB key/pen drive/hard drive/other. Special care needs to be taken when preparing to upgrade from Windows XP or older operating systems, so check out this guide before continuing (skip the. Free drivers for HP Mini 2140. Found 91 files for Windows 7, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows Vista, Windows Vista 64-bit, Windows XP, Windows XP 64-bit, Windows 2000, Linux. Select driver to download.

Password crackers windows 7. Ill try to guess your full story, why must I? Who asks, PW BIOS OR windows?

Matters big time. So the OS is bad. Dead or whaterver,virus killed it as most do. No OS stated, Vista to W10, which was it.? HP puters: F11 restores the OS, did you do that? HP rules,all.

Power on hit, F11 like woodywoodpecker. Bam, HP restore goes live. Ok you have self made USB flash disks OS, from where, HP or MS>? Made by you, or by HP or MS? (3 ways to get it) none stated. You turn the power on, and what happens exactly?

Does BIOS work, Esc, or F11 or F9 keys? Do they work or did some wild guy turn on BIOS LOCKS> if bios locked only HP can fix it. (help you) ever heard of HP, and there support pages and forms, here it is.

I recommend removing and reinstalling the CMOS battery but you will need to open up your laptop to do this. Otherwise, this link provides some software options to cracking and resetting the password: On the second page of this guide, you will see a circular yellow battery (the CMOS battery) depicted in step 5. This is what needs to be popped out, wait several seconds and put it back in. Dec 09, 2012 .

Your computer can't find the OS on your hard drive. Most likely the boot sector has been damaged (or someone reformatted the drive).

The entire hard disc may have failed. Since this is a netbook, you will either need an external optical drive (USB) and a copy of the OS to boot from or a USB flash drive that has been prepared as a boot version of the OS. HP offers the Mini 5101 with WinXP Home, SUSE Linux or FreeDos.

There may be newer versions with other OS options. Make sure to get the correct OS, even if you upgraded it. You will need to boot to the optical drive or the flash drive. On other computers, this may involve accessing the BIOS to change the boot order. Look for a splash screen with the key information. Then turn off the computer and turn it back on while repeatedly pressing the key.

(F1, Esc, Del, and F10 are common keys.) If you miss the timing, turn off the computer and try again. If you are using XP, you will need to enter the Recovery Console. Then enter the command line mode. If your command prompt starts with any character other than C. Type C: then press Enter. Next type CD WINDOWS.