HP Pavilion 11 x2 not booting from USB

[aide199]

I have tried everything I can think of but my HP Pavilion 11 x2 will not boot from USB...I have Windows 10 currently installed on it and need to boot from USB to allow me to install a new OS on the machine.

I have gone into hte bios...(which I can see is a locked bios with very limited options)....I have turned off the Secure Boot option and have set the USB has the first boot device.

But when I hit F9 on startup...it just gives me 2 options:-

OS Boot Manager

Boot From EFI File

I have tried Boot from EFI File...but this does not work..

I know the USB is configured correctly as I can boot from it on my desktop computer.

How can I get this to work?

Thanks in advance

[aide199]

Can anyone please help???

[aide199]

Can ayone help me???

I even tried to go through the Live chat option and all I get with that is the page can't be located 

I'm really starting to get peed off with the lack of support I'm getting!

[aide199]

Can anyone please help me!!!

I've now managed to contact HP support on Live chat and they gave me all manner of things to try but none worked. All I want is for my HP to boot from USB......the OS I want to install is OSX Yosemite......The last suggestion live hep gave me was to completely wipe my hard drive and not ormat it and that will definately solve the problem...suprise, suprise it didn't.  I've even formated my hard drive to HFS+ to see if that would help......nope still the same problm.

I've tried every tool out there for creating a OSX Yosemite USB and none of them work on my machine.....I know they work beacuase if I plug them into a different machine they all allow me to boot from USB.

I would really appreciate some help with this...

Thanks in advance

[almondking]

hi,

i stumbbled into your thread while i was looking for a similar answer for my Pavilion X2 10".

mine was delivered with win 8.1 with bing. it was alright to use, but i was unable to bring this machine to connect to my office domain. due to the lack of networking features which is only available in the pro or enterprise version of win 8.1.

i tried many ways to load in a win 8.1 pro os. the disc is authentic, keys are authentic, usb stick or optical drives; it makes no differences. the machine just refuse to boot into the usb disc / stick like all other previous system does.

there isnt an option for the bios to go into legacy mode. however there is an option to turn off the secure boot, but that does not gives legacy support to the make the system boot to usb.

i had probably done the same things you tried, no matter what setting is done to the bios, there is always only 'os boot manager' and 'ueif' when i hit boot sequence (f9).

had tired everything that i can think of, talking to HP was like talking to an answering machine, and they were asking the most bacis questions ... "were you able to select 'legacy boot' from the bios menu?" ... even when i tell them there isnt a legacy boot option in the bios ... they were too amature .

i concluded that the only way to boot to usb is to do it in uefi with secure boot off and encryption turn off in win 8.1 (else it will bring u to bitlocker).

but i am still unable to boot into the usb media to install win 8.1 pro today. i gave up.

[BoiseId]

I don't know if this will help you, as it has been a few weeks, but I believe I found a possible answer to the problem you were having. I recently picked up an HP Pavillion x2, and was looking for a way to make an image of the base system before I start whacking on it. I've used Clonezilla for this in the past, and found a bootable USB version on the Clonezilla.org site:

http://clonezilla.org/downloads/download.php?branch=alternative

See the note under About CPU architecture: "However, if you need uEFI secure boot, please use AMD64 version of alternative (Ubuntu-based) Clonezilla live." 

Basically, whatever boot image you want to use needs to be a "uEFI secure boot" compatible image. I was able to follow the instructions on the above site and have made a Clonezilla boot drive on a USB flash drive. I haven't tried any other Linux distros, but if I do, I'll try to find one that says it's compatible with uEFI secure boot. I saw the option in the bios to turn this off, but in my case I don't need to. 

Not sure if this helps you with the specific problem you are having, but I hope it is of some help.

[jbappie]

For all that have the same problem.

I had the same problem after failed  re-installation of win 10.

Remember I had win 10 upgraded from win 8.1 from within the 8.1 system. Hence my product key 8.1 was converted and registered by microsoft for win 10 before the reinstallation, so my version will automatically be validated.

do this:
1.download OS system iso ( Win 10 in my case)

2.download rufus

3.make a bootable usb with following specifications

•partition scheme and target system type: GPT

•File system: FAT32

•create bootable disk: iso; and choose the OS system iso

then:

1.start up your X2 and press esc immediately: choose F10 bios setup

2.in system configuration: disable secure boot

3.move usb/CD boot up.

4.save and exit bios

5.restart your X2 with the bootable usb in place.

6.it will fire up.

7.install win 10.

8.when prompted for the product key choose: skip

9.remember: no hardware specific drivers are installed
  so you must download and install fx network driver separately.

[Gennarog]

This worked like a charm!   

The important thing is to make sure the USB drive is formatted as fat32.   Thank you So much. I was having the same issue just on a HP Pavilion 10 x2. 

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@jbappie wrote:

For all that have the same problem.

I had the same problem after failed  re-installation of win 10.

Remember I had win 10 upgraded from win 8.1 from within the 8.1 system. Hence my product key 8.1 was converted and registered by microsoft for win 10 before the reinstallation, so my version will automatically be validated.

do this:
1.download OS system iso ( Win 10 in my case)

2.download rufus

3.make a bootable usb with following specifications

•partition scheme and target system type: GPT

•File system: FAT32

•create bootable disk: iso; and choose the OS system iso

then:

1.start up your X2 and press esc immediately: choose F10 bios setup

2.in system configuration: disable secure boot

3.move usb/CD boot up.

4.save and exit bios

5.restart your X2 with the bootable usb in place.

6.it will fire up.

7.install win 10.

8.when prompted for the product key choose: skip

9.remember: no hardware specific drivers are installed
  so you must download and install fx network driver separately.

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[BoiseId]

I'm curious to hear what you think of the system running on Windows 10. My Pavillion 11 x2 has such limited memory under Windows 8.1 that it's practically useless. It has 4 GB RAM, but with only Chrome running with 3 or 4 tabs open, it uses about nearly 3 GB and becomes fairly unresponsive. Just wondering if Win 10 has a lower memory footprint and if it would be worth it to upgrade. 

Thanks.

[jbappie]

I've got 2Gb Ram. 32Gb storage.
I had the jitters for the switch to 10. But....
System works like a charm.

After fresh installation the ol' WIMBOOT is gone. All of the space is allocated to C drive.
I've got office installed. No problem.

BUT.... No Chrome. Never more Chrome.
Chrome uses far too much space and ram.
Check out your folders with 'file size tree' you'll see it eats up more than 500 Mb.
This info is also shared with google and thus, by default, of half of the world.
Try Edge. Then make google your default search engine.

Want to follow more windows 10?

Windows central.

Grtz. Jbappie