all-in-one Model D18WS Z24-890-UA91 Issue Booting from thumb drive

sunnyupside

I have an all-in-one Model D18WS Z24-890-UA91

I want to boot from a thumb drive. I restart holding the DELETE key, get to the BIOS SETUP UTILITY, screen, select BOOT OPTION:

1. select REMOVABLE DEVICE OPTION => select F10 SAVE AND EXIT, does not work, I get a regular windows boot.

2. As above but I highlight REMOVABLE DEVICE OPTION which moves this option as the only item showing,, hit F10, does not work, regular windows boot.

3. As 2 except after highlighting REMOVABLE DEVICE OPTION I hit F8 SAVE AS USERDEFINED, then hit F10 SAVE AND EXIT. Again, does not work, I get a regular windows boot.

What am I doing wrong?

[Edited the thread to add model name to the title]

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/716748/all-in-one-model-d18ws-z24-890-ua91-issue-booting-from-thumb-drive

You need to have a bootable USB with a bootable software and have the OS on that so when you insert the USB it will boot, you can’t boot the C24-890 AIO PC with an ordinary USB it needs to be constructed first as a bootable USB and then the Windows OS put onto that USB. Have a look here at “How to Create a Bootable Windows 11 USB Drive” as it explains it to you very clearly. Good luck and hope this helps you out,

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billsey

The key there is the Boot Menu option. By default that is disabled and needs to be enabled before you are able to boot from anything other than the normal drive. Enable that, save and exit, then hit F12 at boot time to get a list of everything you can boot from.

kopavi

BINGO. That was the issue!!! Many Thanks!!

billsey

Happy to hear it worked for you. :)

kopavi

It's a good news/bad news thing. 😕

My original problem was solved. Please note that I am running updated Windows 11, but I want to install Linux Mint on my machine. I am now able to boot to the thumb drive and enter the Linux install routine, I get connected to the internet and all looks great until I get to the screen that says that my machine is running Intel RST and I must make adjustments before I can continue. There are lots of suggestions on line for doing this but none of them work for me.

The simplest suggestion was go to the BIOS, find SATA and make a specific change. My Acer does not have an SATA or any reference to storage anywhere in the BIOS. The next approach was from the Ubuntu page. I was directed to go to Registry Editor and search on:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorV

and make specific changes. That page does not exist on my machine. I can get to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services

but the \iaStorV simply is not recognized. From this location, searching around I did find an entry:

REG_DWORD (0.0000001)

Which is something I was suppose to look for, the recommendation was to change that "1" to "0", hit OK and proceed. I did all that and retried to do the Linux install. No change, I still get RST warning. What am I doing wrong??

billsey

Boot to your BIOS and go to the Advanced; Integrated Peripherals menu:

Change Onboard SATA mode to AHCI, save and exit. Then go into Windows to make sure it's still working. If so, then retry the Linux install.