HP laptop won't boot to USB flash drive.

[cody_welch66]

The laptop has Windows 10 on it, and I've been trying to reinstall the OS as the filesystem had become corrupt.  I ran checkdisk, and it fixed all the errors that it had found.  It also had unmounted the drive making the OS no longer bootable.  I tried to recover the OS, but unknwon to me there was a recovery partition on the hard drive.  The computer read this partiton, and not the revcovery disk I had made on a USB stick.  The laptop tried to recover Windows 8.1.  So, now I'm trying to reinstall Windows 10 from an ISO that I got from Microsoft.  Yet, the computer will not boot to USB no matter what I try.  I know the USB drive works as I reinstalled Windows 10 on another laptop I was working on.  My personal laptop picks up the USB stick.  The HP however doesn't even see it as an option when I try to pull up the boot order.  What is wrong, and how do I fix it?

[The_Fossette]

Hi @cody_welch66

Welcome to the HP Forums!

Thank you for posting your query in this forum, it's a great place to find answers.

I reviewed your post and I understand that you are unable to install the windows 10 operating system using a USB flash drive.

I’d love to help!

You need to boot to bios and disable secure boot and enable legacy support for the USB flash drive to be detected.

Follow the steps in the below link to enable legacy support in bios.

http://hp.care/2g6hOrm

Let me know how it goes and you have a good day ahead.

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I have the same issue and  i have dome what you said but it still doesnt say there is a USB there that i can boot from

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