May 19, 2019 · I encountered a similar problem where the F12 boot selection menu would not display the USB boot option. @SSi's solution worked for me. I powered down the PC, removed the USB drive, reinserted it and powered back on. That worked, and the USB drive showed up in the F12 boot menu. I was able to successfully install the OS.

Jan 12, 2022 · I bought a new Dell machine. I have my old laptop HD in an external SATA to USB case, connected to the USB port. I want to boot from that HD. Attached is the BIOS setting of the Dell machine. I rea...

Jan 23, 2017 · Step 3.2.1: Look for your flash drive (look for its size) and keep note of its number. Step 3.3: Type select disk # and hit enter, where # is number of your flash drive (see step 3.2.1). This selects your flash drive as the target to operate on. Step 3.3.1: Type detail disk and hit enter. This lists the detail of the currently selected disk ...

The USB drive finally appeared just after I hit Ctrl+Atl+Del after boot. It re-boots, I hit Esc , and the USB Drive is now in the menu list available for choice. It was as if the booting sequence was too fast for my USB drive.

Jul 9, 2017 · Around the time when Windows 98 was mainstream, bootable MS-DOS CDs and USB drives used a 1.44MB floppy disk image as the actual boot target. The CD/USB drive stores the floppy image either visibly on the file system or invisibly outside of a partition, and the computer would boot to a virtual A:\ drive. If access to the CD/USB drive is desired ...

The flash drive is actually recognized as a floppy, not a regular flash drive. Plop Boot Manager should now be running. There may be a starfield screensaver in the background. Plug in the other FDD. (Exchange with the Plop Boot Manager FDD if you're out of slots.) Select the flash drive option from the Plop Boot Manager menu.

May 31, 2013 · Windows Boot manager somehow seems to be taking precedence. I have Windows 7, Linux Mint and Ubuntu installed on my hard-drive. When I boot-up those are the only options, despite having a USB stick plugged in then going into the BIOS and setting the UEFI USB stick as the primary boot device.

Aug 11, 2011 · You can then boot your virtual machine from the attached Physical drive. Alternatively, and only for Windows, Linux Live USB Creator (formerly uSbuntu) is a free software for Windows that allows you to create a bootable Live USB key with a Linux on it.

Jul 4, 2018 · Basically, you need a USB drive with a FAT32 file system 1 and an active partition. You can use the following PowerShell commands to prepare your USB drive: Use Get-Disk to identify your USB drive (look for the Friendly Name and Total Size columns, for example, and then note the Number of your USB drive).

Apr 13, 2019 · USB boot support is enabled in the BIOS: No USB option in the boot menu: The USB ports are activated: Switching from legacy to UEFI boot didn't help: The USB flash drive seems recognized as its light indicator is flashing when the computer starts. The USB flash drive was formatted to be bootable with rufus and has an image on it. It shows up in ...