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01-17-2019 10:53 AM
i have trouble booting from the usb stick on my hp 650 g1 (i5 4300m). i want to reinstall windows 10, the current that i have now it's win 10 educational with license included. i think i have the right boot option . legacy is on , safe boot off , i press esc then select to boot from the usb stick with rufus made win 10 enterprise. and it simply load into normal windows. i have tried the stick on the pc and it works as it's bootable. i have tried to make a bootable chrome cloudready usb stick and this ones it boots.. could some one figure why the windows 10 usb stick refuse to boot? could i have some ''restriction type laptop'' that has some functions turned off ? i got this laptop from somebody who worked in a bank.
01-17-2019 11:04 AM
Hi:
With Legacy mode enabled/Secure boot disabled, there should be two USB devices to boot from.
UEFI diskette on key (USB flash drive)
Legacy diskette on key (USB flash drive).
Boot from the legacy one.
If that doesn't work and your notebook has a DVD drive, put the W10 ISO file on a DVD and see if it will boot from the DVD.
You can use this tool I zipped up and attached below to transfer the ISO file to a DVD to make it bootable.
01-17-2019 11:24 AM - edited 01-17-2019 11:32 AM
hello. first of all thank you for your fast answer. if i recall correctly i have just 3 options ''notebook hard drive'' ''usb'' and ''network'' . but i will recheck as soon as i get acces to the notebook. i did not tried to make a bootable dvd but i will try this option as well. the odd thing is the chrome os newerware usb stick boots .(not directly, but by pressing esc + f9 and selecting usb)
01-17-2019 11:36 AM
You're very welcome.
If you have not done so already, test the bootable drive you made on another PC to make sure it boots from that.
You will be given the opportunity to cancel out of the installation once you are at the 'Install Now' screen.
I don't own your model notebook, but on most of these models with W8 or newer that have a legacy and secure boot setting, there are two groups of bootable devices.
EFI and Legacy.
Also if you have not done so already, use the F9 boot options menu to select the bootable device.
Setting a boot order in the BIOS (such as USB first) does not ensure the PC will boot from that device.
Also, I doubt that the PC is restricted because of where it was used previously.
There are security settings in the BIOS to disable things, but since your USB ports are working, and you can boot from the other USB stick, that is not the issue.
If in doubt, set the BIOS to its defaults, save the changes and exit.
Then go back in and enable legacy mode/disable secure boot.
01-18-2019 11:04 AM
i have added more pictures. with the bios settings.the thing is that the chrome os stick that boots is seen in windows as ''efi-system'' ,this was made on neveware with their own software of making usb sticks, and the windows 10 stick that doesn't boot is seen in windows as ''uefi ntfs'' , this one was made with rufus
the windows 10 stick boots on my pc as i said.