Unable to boot via USB

[alphadragon211]

I recently used the windows media creation tool and made a bootable USB. My problem is, the PC is not detecting the USB as a bootable media. I know the problem is with my PC because the USB worked as expected on my Laptop. I had installed the current OS on the PC only recently using the same USB stick and it worked fine then.

I'm using an INTEL DZ75ML-45K motherboard currently running Win 10. Any help would be greatly appreciated, TIA!

 

[morgancomputers]

Have you accessed your Bios and enabled/selected the Boot order and made USB the 1st option? I had the same problem with a HP Elitebook a while ago only to find that it was ignoring the USB. Once I have changed boot order to USB, CD, HDD and rebooted it found the Media drive and worked perfectly.

 

[RARRAF]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GblKZO-smU its probably a bit different but you want USB at the top or maybe there is a boot from USB in the bios hammer the "delete" key

 

[alphadragon211]

Thanks for your reply.
I have an option to select which device to boot from by double-clicking it in my BIOS. It then goes to a screen saying insert boot media and press a key to continue. This is why I know for sure that it is just not being recognized irrespective of the boot order.

 

[morgancomputers]

Thanks for your reply.
I have an option to select which device to boot from by double-clicking it in my BIOS. It then goes to a screen saying insert boot media and press a key to continue. This is why I know for sure that it is just not being recognized irrespective of the boot order.

In this case you should try using the media creation tool again on another USB drive, it could be the drive thats not completed properly if that happens then it wont be recognised as a bootable device so Windows will ignore it.

 

[alphadragon211]

Thanks for your reply.
I have an option to select which device to boot from by double-clicking it in my BIOS. It then goes to a screen saying insert boot media and press a key to continue. This is why I know for sure that it is just not being recognized irrespective of the boot order.

In this case you should try using the media creation tool again on another USB drive, it could be the drive thats not completed properly if that happens then it wont be recognised as a bootable device so Windows will ignore it.

But the same USB drive worked on my laptop, when selected as the first bootable option, it goes into the Win-OS install dialog box. Do you still feel I should use a different USB drive?

 

[morgancomputers]

Thanks for your reply.
I have an option to select which device to boot from by double-clicking it in my BIOS. It then goes to a screen saying insert boot media and press a key to continue. This is why I know for sure that it is just not being recognized irrespective of the boot order.

In this case you should try using the media creation tool again on another USB drive, it could be the drive thats not completed properly if that happens then it wont be recognised as a bootable device so Windows will ignore it.

But the same USB drive worked on my laptop, when selected as the first bootable option, it goes into the Win-OS install dialog box. Do you still feel I should use a different USB drive?

Only as part of a process of elimination, 4 potential issues
1 - Its the bootable image on the USB
2 - Its the actual USB drive thats faulty
3 - The bios is not seeing the drive (possibly settings issue)
4 - The USB port you are using on the PC/Laptop your trying to restore is faulty ( I presume you've tried an alternative usb port to rule that out)

If you cant overcome the USB issue you could resort to the ISO file option and burn it off to a DVD and try that route?

 

[alphadragon211]

Thanks for your reply.
I have an option to select which device to boot from by double-clicking it in my BIOS. It then goes to a screen saying insert boot media and press a key to continue. This is why I know for sure that it is just not being recognized irrespective of the boot order.

In this case you should try using the media creation tool again on another USB drive, it could be the drive thats not completed properly if that happens then it wont be recognised as a bootable device so Windows will ignore it.

But the same USB drive worked on my laptop, when selected as the first bootable option, it goes into the Win-OS install dialog box. Do you still feel I should use a different USB drive?

Only as part of a process of elimination, 4 potential issues
1 - Its the bootable image on the USB
2 - Its the actual USB drive thats faulty
3 - The bios is not seeing the drive (possibly settings issue)
4 - The USB port you are using on the PC/Laptop your trying to restore is faulty ( I presume you've tried an alternative usb port to rule that out)

If you cant overcome the USB issue you could resort to the ISO file option and burn it off to a DVD and try that route?

Ya, I understand. I did try different ports. Procuring a DVD is going to take some time, hence wanted to know if anything else is the problem. The reason I'm perplexed is that I did this not more than two weeks ago and it worked fine then. I will try the DVD option soon and will update. Please let me know if any other solution comes to mind. Thanks a lot!

 

[geofelt]

The motherboard has usb2.0
If you are using a usb3.0 stick, perhaps that is the cause of your problem.

 

[alphadragon211]

The motherboard has usb2.0
If you are using a usb3.0 stick, perhaps that is the cause of your problem.

The motherboard has 3.0 slots(in which I've tried), but I'm pretty sure the USB stick itself is 2.0.