how do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1

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How do I boot a recovery drive usb on start up in windows 8 .1. With most Windows (7 or XP) the bootable USB disk can install at start up of the computer. I followed the instructions in recovery (control panel) to produce a recovery disk and I cannot bring up the usb disk at the start of the computer.

I have had problems with win 8.1 to the point that I got in but was frozen and had to start over. F2 does not work.

Recovery Boot Menu(includes BIOS) in Lenovo Ideapad S210 Touch 64 bit

1. Normal Startup
2. Bios setup : Configuration choices:
Power Beep(electrical surges)
Intel Virtual Technology
Bios Back Flash
Hot Key Mode enabled
Deep Sx
(plus other saves, security and other things including Boot Mode)
3: Boot Mode
USB boot enabled
UEFI BOOT PRIORITY ORDER
Windows Boot Manager(Hard Drive # Listed) choose this and get normal startup
EFI Network 0 for IPv4(Big number after this) choose this and get boot failed goes back to normal Startup
4. Recovery this is Lenovo One Key Recovery Software, one part includes saving disk image and ability to copy image
Maybe there is something I missed involving booting the Recovery Disk?
 
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Download Rufus. Run it and select the recovery disk .iso file by pressing the Disk Icon, select the usb drive to be used as a recovery drive. If it's not an iso, there's also an option to select which files to copy to the recovery drive. Restart your pc with the usb drive in a USB 2.0 port, go to BIOS, go to BOOT DEVICE PRIORITY and Select you USB drive as First Priority. You can also do this by pressing "Boot Device select Menu" button at post(The splash screen when you press your pc's power button).
 
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I understand that when I do rufus with my recovery disk that the recovery disk will be deleted but the disk which is a microSD will become bootable and then I will have to reinstall the recovery disk the same way I made it using recovery in control panel. I assume that this will work and it will be a UEFI bootable? The second question is about the boot priority order.
There seems to be no boot device priority for the USB boot. Look at UEFI BOOT PRIORITY ORDER above. It is listed below USB boot ENABLED. I will call Lenovo support. Appreciate your answer.
 
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Rufus does not work!! It keeps deleting the recovery disk. Can't find an iso image of a repair disk. When I try to reinstall recovery drive through windows the rufus drive is deleted. All I need is a Uefi boot image(USB bootable) on my already made recovery USB media
 
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Create the repair disk. Copy its contents to a folder on desktop. Create a bootable usb with rufus. copy the contents of that folder to the repair disk/usb
 
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I followed the above guide using recovery in control panel and copied the recovery drive info to a new folder. Then I used rufus to create a bootable usb. I had to change the autostart function to GPT Partition for UEFI. Then I copied the recovery drive info to the bootable usb.
But unfortunately I could not boot up the recovery drive. I could not find the usb drive listed in the Boot Device Priority.
OK so I called Lenovo and one man said I could make a bootable USB and another software "expert" said I needed a CD for the job.
 
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Okay you guys, why should I keep a computer that I can’t fix myself. I have been doing that for many years with Win 95, XP and Win 7 using a repair disk. Sometimes more rarely that frequent I had to reinstall. I also had the aid of the information from the internet, some of them experts like Paul Thurrott. So there ought to be an answer to my problem.
Jim
 
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