Think M72e start windows 7 with usb stick inserted

I know in the scheme of things my M72e annoyance is pretty minor,but I am more curious than exasperated.
If I try to start the machine with a usb stick in any of the ports it won't boot into windows 7and I get a "No bootable partition in table" message and the machine just hangs there.
If I remove the usb stick and restart, it boots to windows 7 fine.
Obviously, i figured that the machine is trying to boot off the usb stick before the harddrive. So I went into the bios but there is no option to boot off the hardrive first.
I can press F12 and it gives me a one time option to boot off the hardrive but I don't want to have to do this everytime.
Anybody know why Lenovo in its wisdom hobbled the boot choices in the bios?
Thanks,

F3Spirit wrote:
Thank you,
I try this.
Also check this one out
But i think you would be far better served by installing Windows in a virtual machine.

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