Have two year old refurbished Spectre 360, model 13-v111dx . Can't boot from stick drive.

[keyman53340]

Have windows 10.   Installed Ubuntu (Linux) image on a stick, booted laptop from stick to run Ubuntu,  for 2-3 days, worked fine.

Then stopped.   Get same "fail" error message every time.  Have read threads.   Tried all recommendations and some 

do-overs, including:

re-loaded clean image to stick drive

re-loaded image with Rufus, and/or Bulena

re=loaded image to different stick drive

changed boot order in Bios (F9)

Disabled secure boot, which enabled legacy boot (this was not done when stick was working).

Looked for "USB 3.0 Config in Pre-Os" in BIOS system config so I could set it to AUTO----does not exist in Sys Config menu.

Any ideas?

thanks

Keyman

[WAWood]

@keyman53340 

Sorry, but HP does not provide Linux support.

For such assistance, you have to contact the support forum for the Linux distro you are using.

[keyman53340]

Hi ,

thanks for your answer but I don't believe you understand the issue.

MY LAPTOP DOES NOT ACCESS THE USB BOOT DEVICE.   PERIOD.  I get the same failure msg over and over.    It doesn't matter if the usb had Linux, or   Windows 10, or Windows 8, or something else.   What is WEIRDER is that it worked fine for 2-3 days and then  I started getting these error messages.   IF I had problems RUNNING Linux your answer would be appropriate.   That is not the issue.

  I have, as I said, read most of the threads about the usual  culprits, and nothing seems to work.

All best, I do thank you for replying, and happy holiday everybody.

Thank you.

[WAWood]

@keyman53340 

OK, then go into the BIOS/UEFI setting again and this time, look for an option to Disable booting from portable devices.  That is usually Enabled in newer PCs and you have to Disable it in order to boot from USB sticks.