Windows 7 x64 vs Ubuntu 16 - windows-7-x64

I've a Acer Aspire 5600U machine, which had windows 10 earlier. I installed Ubuntu 16 on this machine erasing all previous Operating Systems. Now, it says that there is no bootable disk and stuck at the boot screen.
So, i tried to go back to windows 7, and created a bootable Windows 7 x64 USB but the computer does not recognize the bootable USB either, whereas it does recognize bootable Ubutnu 16 OS USB.
I'm pretty sure there must be something i'm missing in the BIOS, but i've no clue what it is. I dont understand the whole concept of UEFI vs BIOS either.
So, if anyone has any ideas to resolve this, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

If anyone is struggling with this, here is the problem, how it was got solved.
I had to use Rufus tool to create GBT Partition with FAT32 file system. Looks like the drive i used earlier was in NTFS.
formatting it to FAT32 resolved the issue.

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I'm running on Windows 10:
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900K CPU # 3.70GHz 3.70 GHz
Installed RAM 64.0 GB (63.8 GB usable) Device
ID A90B50D3-489B-4AE1-BB44-38804085FE3A Product
ID 00330-53385-62923-AAOEM System type 64-bit operating system,
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I have installed and tested Julia:
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Charles
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I was able to replicate some similar behavior (albeit on a different OS) and filed an issue here: https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/2391
I suggest you do the same unless any of the fixes on the first issue linked above work for you.

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Windows 10 Pro, 4 GB Ram.
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I have mistakenly formatted windows xp partition of my hardrive while trying to install lubuntu operating system.
Now I can only have access to my computer through the live USB disk of lubuntu.
I have couple of .iso files of windows xp cd.
But when I tried to create bootable USB drive from it, it doesn't work.
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We recently moved from Windows XP to Windows 7 and ever since the move I've found that I can't run the !dlk command from Sosex in WinDbg anymore, it simply runs forever. It used to be a handy way to catch deadlocks in our code.
Did something change in Sosex that I should know about?
We're on Windows 7 64 bit debugging a crash dump from a x86 process that ran on a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
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