trying to load windows 10 from usb but bois will not boot from usb

[hayabusa-75]

Am trying in vain to get my BIOS to boot from my windows 10 usb flash drive. my hard drive is formatted so I cant just plug the usb in and take it from there.The ONLY way I can do it is to somehow get by BIOS to boot from usb but the usb does not show in the boot devive options. Thre is a USB Hard drive option & a USB floppy/cd option but neither of these will allow me to boot into windows when i restart my computer. Help please before i pull out what little hair i have left. Thank you

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

The only suggestion I can offer would be to go into the BIOS, disable secure boot, save the setting, restart the PC and see if the USB flash drive shows up on the EFI list of boot devices.

[hayabusa-75]

Thank for reaching out. Finally managed to get my pC up and running again so I thought I'd contact you to tell you how. I removed my 2.5" SSD drive from my PC and cloned Windows 10 from my laptop onto it. Then reinstalled into my PC changed the boot in BIOS to start from that drive. When windows was up and running I obviously had access to my USB's so put my windows 10 USB in the USB opened the windows folder in the USB drive and installed windows onto my M.2 SSD drive. Then formatted the 2.5 SSD drive. Only way I could think of to get my PC up and running again.......anyway it worked. Thanks for replying to my request for help.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

Glad you got your PC up and running again.