Aspire V3-571G won't boot from USB flash drive
Hi,
My hard disk drive died and i want to replace it with a new hybrid sshd drive.
I made a recovery drive in the past for this occasion but for some reason when i put in the usb drive it completely pauses any booting. When I remove the usb it goes on put when I put it back in it pauses it again. Is there a way to disable that so i could just boot from that usb drive?
Thanks in advance!
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Pay attention that you can have a faulty USB or incompatible USB pen.
i had a similar issue some times ago on a desktop and i found that, even if the USB pen worked nice under windows, at boot it hangs and was impossible to enter BIOS too.
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how could i know its the stick itself?
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you could, creating a recovery in another USB pen.
you can copy the files to another USB pen and make the new USB pen bootable.
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what i think is strange is that when i put it in at any time when i'm in the bios it pauses just straight stops and when i pull it out it continues like nothing happened
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you need to put the USB pen before booting to BIOS and sometimes happen that kind of issue; system hangs on with the USB pen inserted.
oh, by the way, if you have only a simple recovery, you can't re-install the OS, the recovery just helps you to troubleshot windows startup and to recover a previous backup.
if you don't have a previous full backup, you need to order recovery media from Acer, this would help you re-install everything as factory.
US shop:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/SearchResult.aspx?lang=eng&ProdId=3712
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i made the recovery with the windows recovery tool copying the entire recovery partition aswell can i use that then or do i have to use that media stick you suggested?
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can you tell me the size of the recovery partition copied?
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about 14gb
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ok, i suggest you to follow this guide to make an USB pen bootable and copy ALL the files of your old USB pen with the recovery:
method 1
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i don't have another usb pen that's large enough i bought this one especially for recovery but i'll try formatting it and make it bootable again
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OK, good luck.
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thanks
i actually thought it was a kind of security so no data from a hostile usb could interfere with the booting process and i could disable it somewhere thanks for the help so far i'll come right back here when its done 0 -
formatting didn't help bt i'm going to make a bootable partition on my external drive and use that as recovery disk
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good choice.
the only things on BIOS can be secure boot or UEFI/legacy but that doesn't make a BIOS hangs.
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actually i'm in windows 8.1 but i already tried legacy and secure boot both didn't help...
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yep, i edited my post.
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So i got a new usb drive (my external drive took too much time to repartition...) and tried booting with it in the usb slot and now i can access my bios no problem but now when i use acer recovery tools i cant make a new recovery drive because it cant find the recovery partition although the partition is there in diskmanagement and using EaseUS partition master i can see the recovery files right there. Does anyone have an idea why the partition is unreadable by acer recovery management?
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Probably a corrupted MBR or GPT.I'm not an Acer employee.0
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Any idea on how to solve that?
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could i copy that partition to my new usb pen?
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