Acer Iconia 8W (W1-810) - Booting from USB...

bejamartins
bejamartins Member Posts: 9

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edited March 18 in 2019 Archives

Hi everyone,
I have an Acer Iconia 8W (W1-810), and I was trying to install another OS through my a USB pen drive. I already changed the boot order in the bios and disabled secure boot, but I'm not able to boot it. Is there a boot menu to acess it, if so, how do I reach it, if not, how can I boot the pen drive? Thanks in advance.

 

Edit: I enabled F12 boot menu, and tried both a USB pen create fom Universal USB installer(which is what I always use to install Ubuntu on a PC) and Intel's another with Win32 Disk Imager (With Ivy-Bridge Android from Intel's website). Boot menu only recognizes Windows...

 

Edit 2: Updated BIOS to 1.06, installed rEFInd on Windows, nothing... Doesn't seem to reccogize USB deviced outside Windows...

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  • bejamartins
    bejamartins Member Posts: 9

    Tinkerer
    Answer ✓
    Discovered that this is a 32 bit EFI only machine. Managed to adapt Ubuntu image to have a 32 bit efi loader and managed to boot into the pen drive. Still having trouble installing but at least I'm in.

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  • bejamartins
    bejamartins Member Posts: 9

    Tinkerer
    Answer ✓
    Discovered that this is a 32 bit EFI only machine. Managed to adapt Ubuntu image to have a 32 bit efi loader and managed to boot into the pen drive. Still having trouble installing but at least I'm in.
  • doberman081
    doberman081 Member Posts: 2 New User

    I have same problem on same tablet. I resolve on this way:

    1. I enable F12 boot menu

    2  Enable USB 3.0 support.

    3. Erase any security boot options.

    4. Set first boot device to be on USB HDD, second to windows boot manager.

    4. Create windows bootable USB stick with Rufos software. When making USB stick you must create it in FAT32 not in NTFS.only then you will be able to boot from your USB stick without problem.

     

    This is my way.

    I hope this will be helpful for other users.

  • doberman081
    doberman081 Member Posts: 2 New User

    I forgot to say I install windows 10 32 bits home, and my bios version is 1.04.

  • Servicell
    Servicell Member Posts: 2 New User
    doberman081 said:

    I have same problem on same tablet. I resolve on this way:

    1. I enable F12 boot menu

    2  Enable USB 3.0 support.

    3. Erase any security boot options.

    4. Set first boot device to be on USB HDD, second to windows boot manager.

    4. Create windows bootable USB stick with Rufos software. When making USB stick you must create it in FAT32 not in NTFS.only then you will be able to boot from your USB stick without problem.

     

    This is my way.

    I hope this will be helpful for other users.

    doberman081 said:

    I forgot to say I install windows 10 32 bits home, and my bios version is 1.04.

    doberman081 said:

    I forgot to say I install windows 10 32 bits home, and my bios version is 1.04.

    Amigo tengo una table Acer Iconia W1 810 version de Bios 1.5 hago el pen driver booteable con W7 32btis con rufus y me botea y me llega a la ventana del asistentente de instalacion de windows para comenzar la instalacion pero no me respone el tactil de la table es como si se congelara si me pudiera alguien ayudar
  • Servicell
    Servicell Member Posts: 2 New User
    Servicell said:
    doberman081 said:

    I have same problem on same tablet. I resolve on this way:

    1. I enable F12 boot menu

    2  Enable USB 3.0 support.

    3. Erase any security boot options.

    4. Set first boot device to be on USB HDD, second to windows boot manager.

    4. Create windows bootable USB stick with Rufos software. When making USB stick you must create it in FAT32 not in NTFS.only then you will be able to boot from your USB stick without problem.

     

    This is my way.

    I hope this will be helpful for other users.

    doberman081 said:

    I forgot to say I install windows 10 32 bits home, and my bios version is 1.04.

    doberman081 said:

    I forgot to say I install windows 10 32 bits home, and my bios version is 1.04.

    Amigo tengo una table Acer Iconia W1 810 version de Bios 1.5 hago el pen driver booteable con W7 32btis con rufus y me botea y me llega a la ventana del asistentente de instalacion de windows para comenzar la instalacion pero no me respone el tactil de la table es como si se congelara si me pudiera alguien ayudar
    Ayuuuudaaaaa

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