bootable

Forum discussion tagged with bootable.
  1. G

    Question Does my motherboard support NVMe SSDs ?

    I have an Asus P6X58D-E motherboard with standard bios (0803). Will an M.2 NVMe SSD via a PCIe slot work ? I don't want to boot from it, I just need it for storage, and I'm not keen on modding the bios. I'm asking because I had read something about the board not supporting NVMe SSDs, but my...
  2. B

    Question Bootable USB created in Windows boots right into UEFI

    My windows 10 install is completely borked. I tried creating a Linux distro usb but got booted right into UEFI. Tried a W10 usb via media tool, right into UEFI. Why is this happening? It's an ASUS notebook with Windows 10 Pro installed (originally home). I once installed a Hackintosh on it...
  3. andrewasted

    Question bootable usb phone

    i recently finished building my pc and i dont have any usb drive to install windows in it, can someone tell me if i can and how can i use my phone to install windows on my pc without losing data? it has 100/256gb used as of now
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    Question Swap cpu, no display afterwards

    I have a 3070ti and a gigabyte z490 vision g. I am trying to upgrade from a 10300 to an 11700k. When I switch them I get no display and none of my peripherals will display. Also the red light for the cpu is on the motherboard. I tried taking out the gpu and plugging the display into the...
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    Question Dual boot: main drive no longer bootable

    This morning my dual boot pc (Win 10 & Win 8) decided to stop recognizing the Win 10 drive as a bootable device. If it's first boot device in bios I get an endless loop of restart/BSD error 0xc0000001. If I put the Win 8 drive in first position it boots up and I can see all the files on the Win...
  6. W

    [SOLVED] Looking for a sata pcie cars bootable riad

    Hello guys .. I have a problem with my sata ports on motherboard after getting short circuit of my power supply .. the problem now those ports not providing stable speed .. I have 2 of ssd evo 860 and got speed below 100MB !!! After I decided to buy new ssd .. and still the same problem with low...
  7. X

    [SOLVED] How do I boot with USB on a laptop that does not support USB boot?

    My COMPAQ Old laptop does not let me boot into USB ( Doesnt have USB boot feature ) When I Install BIOS Extender, And I press USB, It freezes my laptop! Please help :>
  8. D

    [SOLVED] USB OS installation drive

    Can I create an USB OS installation drive with multiple OS in it? If so, then which software can I use to create one? I want to install an OS from the USB drive, not run an OS from it.
  9. E

    [SOLVED] Is a 3yr old Win10 bootable usb still good for installing windows?

    I made a win 10 bootable usb with windows media creation tools back in 2018 and was wondering if I could still use it. I'm wondering if it's outdated or not. I'm intending to install windows 10 on a new machine with the same usb.
  10. S

    [SOLVED] Can't boot a bootable Red Hat ISO from SSD

    I cannot figure out why this isn't working, hoping others might have some insight. I have an 8 GB bootable ISO and I'm trying to get it to boot off of a 190 TB SSD. The SSD currently lives on a workstation, and can be taken in and out the workstation on a hard drive sled. The ISO is a Red...
  11. J

    [SOLVED] Can't boot from USB or CD? Need help finding the problem

    SSD had problems and I'm done messing with it. Bought a new one and now I can't install windows to it. I've tried 3 USBs and a disk. My BIOS shows all of them but when I try to boot I always get the "Insert bootable media..." message. Been messing with the settings in BIOS off and on for days...
  12. Mr.Stork

    Question How to make Bootable USB Drive normal?

    So, I installed Pop Os via BalenaEtcher on a micro SD Card via SD Card reader which has USB out (no write protected switch on sd or the reader), and ran it, which worked, I booted on Pop Os. Now I want to make the Bootable USB SD card back normal. I am on windows 10, and I tried these stuff...
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    [SOLVED] MUlLTI BOOT USB

    is there any way i can create a USB which can mount ISO form other disks/partitions as bootable devices. i mean like the usb itself has no os and you can just copy any iso of a certain OS into another partition (on same usb) or another disk. and when the usb is booted, its show a bootloader that...
  14. omri0147

    [SOLVED] asus x540m no bootable device

    hi everyone, im having a problem. can you guys help, please? i have been upgraded my laptop with an old hdd to ssd. all i have done is just replacing between the two and after that , install a windows 10 with a usb flash. now after i did that, i started dealing with an issue. that issue was...
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    [SOLVED] Making An SSD(internal) act as a multi partition bootable flash disk

    Hi guys! So i've got an internal Adata ssd which im trying to convert to multi partition flash drive to turn into a windows installation (7,10,linux) so i could get my life a bit easier so I dont have to use multiple usb drives . The research i did on the internet didnt give much info the only...
  16. M

    How To Bootable External NVME M.2 (Yep! It's a Thing!!!)

    For those of you seeking a way to have your NVME M.2 portable. Couldn't find instructions anywhere (been looking for years) so I thought I'd provide them. These instructions are for those of you that do not need Step By Step instructions (I'll provide those at a later date (unless someone else...
  17. yoni1974

    Question Win 10 bootable USB not working on z390 designare

    I'm having trouble trying to install win 10 on a new PC i built. Here's my config: Motherboard: Gigabyte Designare z390 CPU: intel 9900k GPU: Asus Rog Strix 2600 Super Ram: 16MB xpg 3600 DDR4 Empty MM2 drive I've created a bootable win 10 pro USB key (UEFI) under Mac (thats the only...
  18. fall3n

    [SOLVED] Black Screen with Blinking Cursor... bad USB?

    I just finished building a PC and am now trying to install windows 10. I created a bootable USB on my Mac twice with two different methods but when I try to boot from the USB on the new PC shows the BIOS, I select the USB as the boot device and then it just shows a black screen with no text but...
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    [SOLVED] USB Bootable Device (Windows 10 Installation) isn't recognized by the BIOS

    Hello, I just want to ask a question. So I tried to reformat my friends laptop, the BIOS mode is set to UEFI. The thing is, the laptop doesn't recognize the USB Bootable Device (Windows 10 Installer) from the boot menu. Although I re-arranged the boot order, the laptop just goes straight...
  20. S

    Question Unable to make my NVMe m.2 drive bootable/usable, and annoying hissing sound from PC?

    Edit: Added an Imgur Album with pictures I took of the BIOS with info I hope will be helpful to pinpoint the NVMe M.2 SSD issues. PARTS NEW Motherboard: Asus ROG Strix Z390-F Gaming CPU: i9 9900K RAM: Corsair Vengeance 16GB 3600MHz CL18 Storage: Corsair Force MP510 NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4 M.2 SSD...
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    [SOLVED] Bios boot to much slow in bootable OS else Software

    Hi legends.. my first experiance in BIOS bootable software to much slow in windows 7 OS installation else hiren boot.. i try both pendrive & CD.. its very very dead slow.. its take long time to next step... what can i do?? solution please legends.. System Configuration Intel i3 2GB Ram 500GB HDD
  22. J

    Question Bootable NVMe RAID with AMD Ryzen 9 3900x

    I want to build a PC with AMD Ryzen 9 3900x CPU and I would like to know if the Asus ROG STRIX X570-E Gaming motherboard together with the Asus Hyper M.2 x16 PCIe x4 v2 extension card allows me to configure 4 Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2 NVMe SSD into a bootable RAID 10 array (Windows 10 Pro) and...
  23. S

    [SOLVED] Laptop won't boot from any device after replacing HDD with SSD?

    Hi, I just replaced my Asus k53SD 's HDD with an out of box SSD and it shows up in BIOS but i can not boot Win7 Installation from DVD drive, nor from USB pen drive. Bootable usb pen drive and dvd work fine on my other pc, and they had previously worked on this laptop too. but not since...
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    Question Cloned windows 10 to SSD, won't boot

    Ok so I have installed windows 10 on my HDD, then used EaseUS to clone the boot partition (where windows is installed) to my SSD, then I marked the SSD as active using diskpart. I turned off the pc, I disconnected the HDD, made sure the SSD is first in boot order, and fired up my PC, only to be...
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    Question Raspberry Pi 3 fails to continue booting from SSD after reboot

    I have two Raspberry Pi 3's (BlackPi and WhitePi by color). Both run Buster from SD card. I cloned the SD card to two powered 2.5 SSDs. BlackPi SSD has Nextcloud installed. The second SSD has Apache web server and PHP installed. Both SSDs will boot on BlackPi, but neither will boot WhitePi from...
  26. W

    Question Creating a Boot to raid system with 3 or 4 drives

    I have a Dell Optiplex 990 and a Mediasync Probox 4 bay non raid external enclosure. I have a 2tb drive in computer now and three 2tb WD red drives. I want to create a raid (possibly 5) set up to boot to. The bios has raid but not seeing where I can set the type. So, looking at SPM393...
  27. Snoop316

    Question Old windows 10 HD as external HDD

    Hi I have an HDD that I took out from a laptop that died recently. The HDD has lots of important software on it with much data.I have put this HDD in an external case that connects to my new laptop with a 3.0 usb. The HDD shows up as an external but I want to know is there a way I can make this...
  28. loonix200

    Question Can not format or clean WinToUSB bootable Flash

    This is my first ever post after tons of experience watching people solve problems here so it's my last hope, this IS however going to be a long post so I also apologize and ask for your patience. Will try to include TLDR in the end. Basically my friend's laptop got its HDD busted and I wanted...
  29. Q

    Pc freezes randomly

    I got this pc (https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0746NKKVL/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1516637194&sr=8-4&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=gaming+pc+1050&dpPl=1&dpID=51%2BfmaWJkyL&ref=plSrch) about a month ago and I’ve been getting random freezes. The mouse is unmovable and the keyboard doesn’t work...
  30. L

    Need Help with Port Forwarding, Wrong ipv4?

    Hello, i have a problme, you see i wanted to forward some ports for the game League of Legends (more about it here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkxhsxaqkPI ) but here is the deal, i recently changed my internet provider, with it everything changed, but here`s the deal, when i tried to port...
  31. AndrewFreedman

    Google Wants to Spread Free Wi-Fi Around the Globe

    Google's latest project, called Google Station, is aiming to bring public Wi-Fi to everyone around the world, and it's starting in India. Google Wants to Spread Free Wi-Fi Around the Globe : Read more
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    Upgrading to 8 cores

    I had my personal rig for about 4-5 years already and i would like to get a beasty pc or a build that is based around AMD. I don't like how much hype Intel gets and i want to help out AMD by buying their stuff and i have seen good benchmark results with its FX 8-core CPUs. I would mainly use the...
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    USB Pen Drive Fails

    I apologise for filling up the forum with another possibly vague situation but here goes: I recently purchased a Lexar 16G USB pen drive.After doing about 20-30 file transfers etc,I decided to make it Win 7 bootable.After using it for simple file transfers for a couple more times,the drive...
  34. S

    desktop PC blowing fuse after removal of external hdd

    Due to some requirement i had to reboot my desktop PC. hence i tried restarting it through windows command. However, since my external hdd was connected it did not reboot after shutting down perfectly. I tried by removing the HDD from the USB port (a little carelessly i must confess) and pressed...
  35. G

    Smaller case build

    Should i go with the corsair 250d or should i go with the node 804 what would be better for the desktop and stuff just curious.Also I plan on using a Amd R9 290 in the build.
  36. J

    (Help) Surface 2 touch cover 2 Key are not working but touch pad is

    have tried troubleshooting on their website.