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‎02-20-2023 09:18 AM

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Product: Victus by HP 16.1 inch Gaming Laptop PC 16-e0000 (2V8Z7AV)
Operating System: FreeDOS

Hey! My laptop have arrived me with FreeDos and I tried to boot my laptop but the USB is not visible and I stucked. I tried 3 different USBs to boot and I enabled USB boot from BIOS MENU. I got device descriptor.read.error -71 and need help! Please!

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‎02-20-2023 10:05 AM

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Hi:

 

Make sure that the secure boot setting in the BIOS (F10) is set to disabled.

 

If there is a legacy mode setting in the BIOS, enable that setting.

 

Have the USB flash drive in your notebook's USB port.

 

Immediately turn on or restart the PC.

 

Press/tap the ESC key to get the menu of options.

 

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

 

If that doesn't work, depending on what operating system you are installing (W10 or W11), instead of having the Media creation tool automatically create the USB installation flash drive, download the ISO file instead and use the free Rufus utility to transfer the ISO file to your USB flash drive so that it is bootable.

 

Set up the menu in the Rufus utility as you see it in the link below.  You don't need to make any changes to it.

 

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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‎02-20-2023 10:05 AM

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Hi:

 

Make sure that the secure boot setting in the BIOS (F10) is set to disabled.

 

If there is a legacy mode setting in the BIOS, enable that setting.

 

Have the USB flash drive in your notebook's USB port.

 

Immediately turn on or restart the PC.

 

Press/tap the ESC key to get the menu of options.

 

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

 

If that doesn't work, depending on what operating system you are installing (W10 or W11), instead of having the Media creation tool automatically create the USB installation flash drive, download the ISO file instead and use the free Rufus utility to transfer the ISO file to your USB flash drive so that it is bootable.

 

Set up the menu in the Rufus utility as you see it in the link below.  You don't need to make any changes to it.

 

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

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‎02-20-2023 12:54 PM

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Thank you! I just changed the MBR to GPT and it worked.

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‎02-20-2023 12:55 PM

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You're very welcome. 

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