Can't boot from USB stick - Acer Aspire E15
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?
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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.
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Check the options in the bios again. What boot priority options are listed?
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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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.
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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)
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I have 8 choices in my boot menu. first option is winows boot manager. Could you tell me where in the list I should put USB FFD.
Regards
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What are the other options and their priority? What are you trying to do?
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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I want to run kali linux from a Thumb drive and already have done that from my dell lapop. The dell bios settings I had set where
1 cd/dvd
2 usb
3 diskette
4 internal hdd
onboard nic
and on my acer they are
1 windows boot manager
2 hdd
3 atapi cdrom
4 usb fdd
5 network boot ipv4
6 usb hdd
7 usb cdrom
8 network boot ipv6
as you can see it was quite easy to figurout on my dell. A lot has changed from five years ago and on this new bios that acer uses it is hard for me to grasp.
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If you're running Win8 or 8.1, probably the safest way is to enable the F12 key startup boot device menu option in the bios, if it hasn't already been done. Try tapping the F12 key on powering up to see if it's enabled. If it is, a boot device menu should appear. Select USB HDD. If it doesn't appear, enter the bios and enable the F12 key startup option. Report back.
Thanks
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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I enabled the F12 key and it booted into the boot menu,but there where no options listed it just said use up or down arrow to select option that dont exist.
Regards
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Did you have the bootstick in the slot?
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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Yes I did have it pluged in. The only thing I can think of is that the windows boot manager was the only option and it was listed as no. 1 which of course is its position in the main bios boot menu. I am affraid to move it as it might have disasteres affects.
regards Ron
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Heh-heh. Would you be afraid to highlight and select the boot manager to see what it brings up?
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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That may be doable. I guess i can hit esc. if its looks threatning
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Just boots up normally but a command window pops up c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe
Then another window pops up c\program files (x86)\search extention\client.exe
With message windows cannot find c:\program files (x86)\search extension\client.exe.Make sure you typed the name correcly and then try again.
I might have to try in moving that windows manager in the main boot listregards
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What specific model and factory-installed Windows do you have?
Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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Aspire E15-571-59fg windows 8.1 64bit
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>>>I might have to try in moving that windows manager in the main boot list>>>
You're probably OK with switching the USB HDD as first. Boot mgr 2nd. HDD 3rd. Don't try legacy mode though. Report back.
Thanks
Jack E/NJ
PS: You may want to consider a virtual Linux with VMWare like I have on my AO722 (a SuSE distro). I'm also running Win98SE, WinXP on the same machine. Sometimes all at the same time.
Jack E/NJ
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The error messages I was getting where the results of something,probably from the thumb drive,that created the search extension folder,thus causing the error message every time I booted.I moved that folder to another thumb drive for backup and tried another boot and no more error message. I am not so sure that it might have something to do with security issue.
Might try that deffernt boot order however I don't want to run a virtual machine. I would rather have a dual boot option.
Regards Ron
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For future users, if it STILL doesn't work, try booting with the USB in a different USB port. Sometimes the computer can be picky about which port the stick is in.
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How to Add Usb option in boot perioty order0
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Rahmatullah---This is a very old thread. Please start a new thread with your specific ACER model and number and Windows version. Thanks. Jack E/NJ
Jack E/NJ
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