Questions tagged [usb-boot]
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Why does Windows on ARM fail to boot from USB drive after installing drivers?
I have a laptop with a Snapdragon X series processor that I am trying to boot Windows 11 on, using an external USB drive since there is no internal drive.
Note: I am not trying to install Windows from ...
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Windows 10 setup USBs appear bootable, but fail to load anything
So I got home yesterday to a wonderful bluescreen informing me that winboot.exe was corrupted on my home computer. The bootable device in there is pretty old, and these kinds of things happen every ...
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Kali linux persistance usb is not saving anything
I created a kali linux usb by flash the OS(downloaded from the website and I has chosen the usb one) to the usb with etcher, then I followed the process on kali website. Nothing gives error in the ...
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Why does my HP Elitedesk not detect my USB drive intermittently? "File System Not Found (3F0)"
I am having this issue where SOMETIMES my EliteDesk 800 G2 Mini does not detect my USB Drive where I have my system installed. This causes me some trouble because I have to reboot several times until ...
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How do I boot from USB stick with a new Lenovo laptop and preinstalled Windows 11?
I just bought a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro14IHU5 O with preinstalled Windows 11 Home. I want to boot a different operating system from a USB drive but it just does not work.
When I go to the boot menu (...
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Lenovo ThinkPad L380 USB boot missing
I have lenovo thinkpad l380 laptop which I need to rebuild using USB but when I press F12 I don't see USB as boot option.
I try same USB on different laptop and it does show and boot from it.
I ...
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USB partition not recognised in bios of intel D945GTP
Using disk utility on macOS Big Sur, I have formatted a USB drive and it is now "USB External Physical Disk • GUID Partition Map." The partition is seen as "USB External Physical Volume ...
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What could be the reason behind a PC not turning on after changing the hard drive?
Just recently I was trying to install Windows 10 on my new SSD drive, while having HDD unconnected. Then I booted autoinstaller from USB and found out that my SSD was missing from the list(possibly ...
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Blank screen on USB boot
I have an HP Elitedesk 800 G1 SF (Product No. C8N26AV) that I recently purchased from the local surplus shop that I would like to set up as a Linux machine. The hard drive was removed and I've put in ...
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Boot from USB does not work although it is bootable
I want to install Linux on my Windows 10 tablet (ChiliGREEN E-Board MW065, 1 GB RAM, 8 inch display), so I created 2 bootable USB flash drives, one with Lubuntu 64-bit and one with Zorin OS Lite 32-...
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Acer a515-43 laptop boot from usb not working
I need to boot from usb to save my laptop files but I can’t find the option in my UEFI boot settings. And I can’t change my boot mode. The only option is UEFI.
And Under boot priority order only ...
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Non-System disk or disk error but HD works on bootable USB
So I have a used HP Computer with two hard drives. I installed Ubuntu on one of them and the second one is used like an external drive.
Ever since the pc sometimes struggles with booting and poops up ...
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Is it possible the boot firmware only runs UEFI on USB but not on hard drives?
I am using a custom (i686) PC for a product development.
I have created an EFI image that would boot a kernel using grub2.
If I dd the image to a USB drive, plug the drive and then start the machine,...
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Live-USB vs Bootable-USB vs USBwithOSonly
So much confusion amongst those three.
Say I have a Laptop with C: drive only which is crashed and not booting up..probably a corrupt MBR or MFT...and I want to recover the C:
Having not enough ...
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Windows 10 USB not installing on HP laptop
Laptop is a Pavillion 15 au063cl if that helps.
I had a hard drive crash so I got a new SSD, but I can't install windows or create partitions. Drive and USB stick are gpt. When I try to install ...
