How to boot off usb windows 8

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Take Screenshot by Tapping Back of iPhone. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. Status Not open for further replies. Previous Next Sort by votes. May 1, 15 0 10, 0. Hey guys, My grandma recently purchased a laptop and it came with Windows 8 installed on it already.

Personally i think its more difficult to use for my grandparents lol. I have windows 7 on a usb drive, and im trying to make it so the laptop boots off of the USB drive. The only problem is i am having an extremely hard time figuring out how to go about it. I tried searching but failed, any help ASAP would be awesome!! Thanks, Drew. May 23, 8, 34 42, 1, There should be a key to push Dell's are F12 to get boot option list,that allows you to select a boot option - and then you can select boot to usb.

You may also have to allow boot to USB in bios. I tried moving each to the number 1 spot but nothing seems to change. Nov 23, 19, 4 74, 2, Some of them have a select boot device while posting.

You may have to change the order so that 1st device is the flash drive then once done swap it back. Sep 14, 2, 0 21, When you get those options, does it display the drive's size?

Also inside the bios, or the uefi, you might have to go in and make sure that your specific USB thumbdrive is bootable; some bios' are very granular like that, let you let select which one's you want to be able to display as a bootable device. Do you have a DVD disk for this? Sometimes it is not really worth the pain in going to all of that work just create a faster installation, when one just spent minutes hunting down tools and then making the usb bootable.

I just reinstalled windows 7 on my desktop easily, i just dont know how to boot off the usb drive using windows 8, dang.. Apr 16, 1 0 10, 0. Thats because you first have to go into the actual bios settings and change the bootloader from UEFI to legacy and then make sure the external drive is first on the boot sequence.

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