Notebooks & Netbooks

[frank4360]

I want to be able to boot from a USB thumb drive/stick. There is no option in the Bios setup to do this.
I will have to return the system to the store - but what Acer system can I replace it with to boot from USB stick?

[JackE]

Check the options in the bios again. What boot priority options are listed?

Jack E/NJ

[frank4360 · Accepted solution]

The Bios setup is "InsydeH20".

The boot options for a Legacy boot are

1 USB HDD

2 USB FDD

3 USB CDROM

4 ATAPI CDROM

5 HDD

6 Network boot IPV4

7 Network boot IPV6

This order was after I changed  to make the various USB boots early in the order in case one of them included a reference to the USB stick.

The boot options for UEFI boot are the same.

While researching the boot order for this reply I tried again with the USB stick connecting at power on, and it loaded from the stick without a problem!!

I simply don't understand what I was doing wrong before, but I obviously screwed up.

Sorry to waste your time, and thanks for your help.

[IronFly]

sometimes USB stick appears under HDD, instead of USB HDD.

During boot press F12 and wait until Boot menu appears, try to select USB HDD, if this not works, select HDD and see if it list 2 devices (real HDD and USB stick)