ASUS X205TA not booting from USB Drive

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I've got Asus X205TA which comes with 32 GB eMMC installed. It came with WIndows 8.1 and a 10 GB recovery partition. As I needed that extra 10 GB I thought to install windows again, I made a bootable 8.1 USB and plugged in but nothing was happening. So I pressed f9 for resetting factory setting, there was an option to boot in cmd there and I thought I'll format disk via diskpart and then install os.

I did it via "Clean" command, so the eMMC is cleaned now but now whatever os i choose 7 or 8 or 8.1 through usb the BIOS is not taking it up. I go to boot menu by escape key it doesn't show anything there. I even thought to boot minitool partition tool through USB but BIOS is not booting from it also.

Basically the BIOS is not booting at all!!!!!!

Also the windows boot manager is gone from boot priority because i think i've deleted the whole disk and its in unallocated state

how do i fix this [censored] problem?????

 


This is what worked for me on my Asus X205TA, GPT is the solution. I used a Windows 10 Pro 1709 32 bit image and everything went well.