BIOS question - Detecting same flash drive twice

csgojoe

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Hey, everyone.

So I just booted up my PC for the first time, and I'm looking at my boot priority to prepare for OS installation. However, my flash drive appears twice in the boot priority. The first detection is labelled as : KINGSTON Datatraveler 3.0. The second is labelled as UEFI (NTFS) KINGSTON Datatraveler 3.0. Which one of these two am I supposed to make my first boot drive if I'm looking to install Windows 8.1? I'm not sure of the difference between the two.

Thanks for all the help in advance!
 


Hey, thanks for the response! Still a little confused. Do I absolutely need to make it UEFI bootable? I just used the windows download tool to make my device bootable. Will that not install windows 8.1 on my pc?
 


So I'll be fine then selecting KINGSTON Datatraveler 3.0 as my first bootable device (the non UEFI NTFS option)? Sorry, just making sure before I proceed, I'm a little derp when it comes to this stuff. Thanks so much for the help + the link! I posted another thread like 20-30 minutes ago about the boot device LED on my mobo, if you could check that out for me too, I feel like you'd have the answer to that question too lol. Again, thanks so much.