Not seeing my USB hard drive in my boot menu

[RoxanneDiP]

I am trying to reinstall Windows through a USB hard drive, but it is not showing up in the boot menu. I used the media creation tool from Microsoft to create it. It shows up in windows just fine but not in the boot menu. Are there any possible solutions?  I attempted to change the boot order and I tried the fix below and it didn't work, plus I can't find a legacy option.  Does anyone have any suggestions? 

See if disabling the secure boot setting in the BIOS gets the USB flash drive to show up in the boot options menu.

If not, go back into the BIOS and enable Legacy mode too.

The USB flash drive boot option should show up in both the UEFI and Legacy boot options lists.

Boot from the UEFI flash drive.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Your notebook probably is too new to have legacy boot option settings.

The only suggestion I can offer would be to see if this works:

First of all, you need to use a USB flash/thumb drive/USB diskette on key whatever you want to call it-- 8 GB minimum.

Download the W11 ISO file instead (3rd option) and use the free Rufus utility to transfer the ISO file to a flash drive so that it is bootable.

Download Windows 11 (microsoft.com)

Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Set up Rufus the way you see it in the illustration for Windows installations.

After Rufus creates the bootable flash drive, restart the notebook.

Immediately tap the ESC key to get the menu of options.

Select the F9 boot options menu and from that, select the W11 USB flash drive and press the Enter key.

Hopefully, the flash drive will show up as a bootable device.

[RoxanneDiP]

Thank you!  I'll give this a try!