Laptop will not boot into the usb

[Nam2]

Hi H.P. Community. I wanted to upgrade my laptop hard drive and I got ready to install. I tried to install it through a bootable USB but it will not boot. I installed my new SSD already. 

Notebook is Dv6-7229wm

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

If you know the USB flash drive you made will boot in another PC, the only suggestion I can offer would be to go into the BIOS, enable legacy mode and disable secure boot.

See this link for the settings to change.

https://www.support.hp.com/us-en/document/c03736054/

After you make those changes, plug the flash drive into the USB port, turn on the PC, tap the ESC key at the beginning of the HP welcome screen to get the menu of options.

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

If you are trying to boot from a W7 USB installation media, you must plug the flash drive into one of the PC's USB 2 ports.

It will not work from a USB 3 port.

[Nam2]

Hi, Thanks for the fast respond Paul. But it seemed that in the boot options menu doesn't show my USB. The only option it showed is boot from EFI file and Notebook Hardrive; and yes i tried the steps you gave me.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

That's interesting.  With Legacy Mode enabled in the BIOS, it should give you options to boot from legacy boot sources (DVD, USB, etc).

Unfortunately, if you are not seeing any legacy boot sources I don't know what the problem could be.