Hp Prodesk 400 Mini does not boot from USB.

[Matthew060]

Hello,

I have a HP ProDesk 400 G4 mini, and need to install Windows 11 25H2 from USB, but cannot get the ProDesk to boot from USB, have selected the USB in the boot options and disabled secure boot, but no good.

Can someone tell me how I fixed this issue ?

Thanks

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

In order to boot from the USB flash drive, have the flash drive plugged into a USB port.

Turn on or restart the PC.

Immediately tap...tap...tap the ESC key to get the menu of options.

Select the F9 boot options menu and from that, select the USB flash drive and press the Enter key.

The PC should then boot from the USB W11 installation flash drive.

[Matthew060]

Hi,

I followed what you told me Paul, but USB does not show up in the boot menu have tried the USB stick in all the USB ports but still no good.

Any more help would be great.

Thanks

[Matthew060]

Hi Paul,

the issue is fixed, the the boot menu USB was set to Disabled when I move the arrow down next to USB one of the options said press F5 to enable, so I press F5 next to USB and restart the pc and it boot up from USB fine.

Thanks for all your help.

thanks 

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

You're very welcome.

I'm assuming that you must bought the PC pre-owned because someone must have disabled that BIOS setting because that is not the default setting.