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RufusPortable 2.16 has been released. Rufus Portable is a USB formatting utility which also can create a bootable USB drive using a bootable ISO image. This release updates to the latest version and improves portability but may require re-selecting your preferred language. This app requires admin rights. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

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I did exactly as you said, but nothing changed on Lenovo ideapad 330S. It still keeps starting up with Windows 10. I tried both with rufus 2.12 and rufus 3.5.

Would you please advise?

Thank you very much in advance.

I wanted to get rid of Windows 7 on my desktop and replace it with Ubuntu. I used a Sandisk 32GB usb stick and Rufus 2.16 to create a bootable usb drive. When I use my motherboard's bootmenu to select my USB it starts booting from the USB stick, only to be followed by this screen:

I am running Windows 7 with an Intel i5-4570 alongside a GTX970 and 8GB of memory. Using Rufus, I have tried to check the USB stick for bad sectors but found none.I have Googled some of the error message and I found people reporting this issue but not in the context I am experiencing it; some people have encountered this issue only after installing Ubuntu, not before. Can anyone shed some light?

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Born sometime in the 50s C.E. in Hierapolis, a Greek city ofAsia Minor, Epictetus spent a portion of his life as the slave ofEpaphroditus, an important administrator in the court of Nero. The dateat which he came to Rome is unknown, but it must have been either priorto 68, at which time Epaphroditus fled the capital, or after theaccession of Domitian in 81, under whom Epaphroditus was allowed toreturn and perhaps to resume his position. The circumstances ofEpictetus' education are likewise unknown, except that he studiedfor a time under Musonius Rufus, a Roman senator and Stoic philosopherwho taught intermittently at Rome. Eventually receiving his freedom, hebegan lecturing on his own account but was forced to leave the city,presumably by the edict of Domitian (in 89) banning philosophers fromthe Italian peninsula. He then established his own school at Nicopolis,an important cultural center in Epirus, on the Adriatic coast ofnorthwest Greece, and remained there teaching and lecturing until hisdeath around 135. The teaching represented in the Discourses(compiled by Arrian) is that of his later career, around the year 108by Millar's (1965) dating, at which time he walked with a limpattributed variously to arthritis or to physical abuse during his timeof slavery. Epictetus never married, but for reasons of benevolence helate in life adopted a child whose parents could not provide for itsmaintenance.

The major compilation of Epictetus' teaching is the four-volumework standardly referred to in English as the Discourses; itwas variously titled in antiquity. According to their preface, theDiscourses are not the writing of Epictetus but areghostwritten by the essayist and historiographer Arrian of Nicomedia inan effort to convey the personal impact of his instruction. Although welack independent means of verification, we have reason to be confidentthat the works we have represent Epictetus' thought rather thanArrian's own: first, because the language employed iskoinē or common Greek rather than the sophisticatedliterary language of Arrian's other writings; and second becausethe brusque, elliptical manner of expression, the precise philosophicalvocabulary, and the intellectual rigor of the content are quitedifferent from what Arrian produces elsewhere. A few scholars,including especially Dobbin (1998), argue that Epictetus must havecomposed them himself, the role of Arrian being merely to preserve amild fiction of orality.

The shorter Encheiridion (titled in English eitherManual or Handbook) is a brief abridgment ofthe Discourses, apparently including the four or moreadditional volumes of Discourses that circulated in antiquity.As such it offers a much attenuated account which is of littleindependent value for the understanding of Epictetus' thought andwhich at some points gives a misleading impression of his philosophicalmotivations. There are also some quotations by other ancient authorsfrom the Discourses as they knew them. A few of thesefragments, notably those numbered by Schenkl 8, 9, and 14, are usefulsupplements to our knowledge of Epictetus.

The standard Greek edition of all the above works is by Schenkl (1916);for the Discourses, there is also a valuable edition bySouilh (4 vols., 1948-65) which includes a French translation.The best English translation is that of Robin Hard (1995), revising theeighteenth-century translation by Elizabeth Carter; this translation isquoted occasionally in this article.

The essentials of Epictetus' thought derive from the early orfoundational period of Stoicism, from the third-century writings ofZeno of Citium, Cleanthes, and Chrysippus. Treatises he mentions bytitle include Chrysippus' On Choice, On Impulse, andOn the Possibles, and he also mentions reading in works byZeno, Cleanthes, Antipater, and Archedemus. Extant reports andfragments of these and other Stoic works offer many points ofcongruence with what we find in him.

It may still be the case that he accepts influence from other currentsin philosophy, or that he develops some ideas on his own. The clearestinstance of such influence concerns Plato, for Epictetus draws muchinspiration from the Socrates depicted in Plato's shorterdialogues. Comparisons can be drawn especially to the Socrates ofPlato's Gorgias, with his fondness for give and take,his willingness to challenge the hearer's presuppositions, andhis optimism about what can be achieved through values clarification.Epictetus also knows the Master Argument from Megarian philosophy(3rd c. BCE) and even names Diodorus and Panthoides,although this knowledge might easily have been drawn from Stoictreatises on logic (2.19.1-11; see further Barnes 1997 ch. 3 andCrivelli in Scaltsas and Mason 2007).

Epictetus never refers by name to the second century BCE StoicsPanaetius and Posidonius, and although he has something in common withPanaetius' reported interest in practical ethics and role-basedresponsibilities, the evidence hardly suffices for an influence claim.References to other philosophers or schools are only in passing. He isimpressed with Cynicism, but sees it as a vocation to itinerantteaching and bare-bones living rather than as a body of doctrine(3.22). Epicureanism he identifies with the pleasure principle andaccordingly despises (3.7).

Any effort to come to grips with Epictetus' thought mustproceed from an awareness of his chosen objectives. The philosopher wemeet in the Discourses seeks above all to foster ethicaldevelopment in others, keeping his personal intellectual satisfactionstrictly subordinate. Consequently we possess no point-by-pointexposition of his views. Those themes he regards as most difficult forstudents to internalize are hammered again and again; other issues maybe treated sporadically as the occasion arises, or omitted altogether,if he regards them as inessential to moral development. His apparentinclination to hold back some of his thinking, as well as theincomplete condition in which the Discourses have beentransmitted to us, make it quite unsafe to draw any assumption abouthis views from silences or gaps in the account we have. On the otherhand, the recursive manner of presentation makes it unlikely that thenon-extant volumes broached any entirely new themes.

Interpreters must be careful not to prejudge the question ofEpictetus' relation to earlier Greek philosophy. While it isevident that his principal contentions are substantially related toearlier philosophical developments, claims concerning his relation tothe earlier Stoics, or possible philosophical innovations or shifts ofemphasis, must be governed by a healthy respect for the fragmentarynature of our sources. We possess no comparable record of the oralteaching that took place in the Hellenistic Stoa. Where corroboratingevidence exists in literary or doxographical works, we are justified indescribing his views as reformulations of the Stoic tradition;otherwise the question of continuity should generally be leftopen.

Assent is regulated by our awareness of logical consistency orcontradiction between the proposition under consideration and beliefsthat one already holds: when we are not aware of any consideration, weassent readily, but when we perceive a conflict we are stronglyconstrained to reject one or the other of the conflicting views(2.26.3). Thus Medea kills her children because she believes it is toher advantage to do so; if someone were to show her clearly that she isdeceived in this belief, she would not do it (1.28.8). Our hatred ofbeing deceived, our inability to accept as true what we clearly see tobe false, is for Epictetus the most basic fact about human beings andthe most promising (1.28.1-5).

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