Can't boot from usb dvd

CountMike said:

If there's a choice in the BIOS, choose USB-HDD not USB-CD.

Good point, I've had to do that if my thumb drive was not tagged as removable media. I had a couple of Sandisk thumb drives the PC treated as USB hard drives. I think I also had to go into the hard drive section of the BIOS and shift the order to boot from them. Really had me scratching my head for a while.

alphanumeric said:

Good point, I've had to do that if my thumb drive was not tagged as removable media. I had a couple of Sandisk thumb drives the PC treated as USB hard drives. I think I also had to go into the hard drive section of the BIOS and shift the order to boot from them. Really had me scratching my head for a while.

NOPE !! nothing....

My wife's Acer is very finicky as to how the thumb drive is created. I made several attempts before it even showed up in the BIOS boot menu at all. What eventually worked for me was using diskpart, option 2 here, http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...e-windows.html It would not even see it at all if it was formatted in NTFS. Rufus was a wash out too. I eventually went old school with diskpart. I never tried an optical disk on that laptop, or any of my laptops for that matter. I do all my installs from thumb drives these days. Faster and easier IMHO. I haven't burned a CD/DVD in ages. My ASUS laptop on the other hand is easy peasy. It will install in UEFI mode even if the thumb drive is formatted in NTFS.

Is there a memory card reader in there, heard it can make a mess of boot options ?

alphanumeric said:

My wife's Acer is very finicky as to how the thumb drive is created. I made several attempts before it even showed up in the BIOS boot menu at all. What eventually worked for me was using diskpart, option 2 here, http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...e-windows.html It would not even see it at all if it was formatted in NTFS. Rufus was a wash out too. I eventually went old school with diskpart. I never tried an optical disk on that laptop, or any of my laptops for that matter. I do all my installs from thumb drives these days. Faster and easier IMHO. I haven't burned a CD/DVD in ages. My ASUS laptop on the other hand is easy peasy. It will install in UEFI mode even if the thumb drive is formatted in NTFS.

OK, I will give it a try with Diskpart !! I will report ASAP.
Q?? But this is for win 7 and win 8 or 8.1.1? I don't have any ISO or DVD from previous windows..I'm all in with window 10.Pro.

CountMike said:

Is there a memory card reader in there, heard it can make a mess of boot options ?

Do you mean with a card in it? Neither one of my laptops will boot from my card reader. I really wish they would, but they are MIA from the boot menu, even with a bootable SD card in the slot. Still a good point, I'd remove any cards from them just to rule it out.

CountMike said:

Is there a memory card reader in there, heard it can make a mess of boot options ?

YES!! I have a cardreader, but Windows 10 did not find a driver for it. I have not bother with it till now, cause I will be installing a clean Win10pro. Hopefully.

ered said:

YES!! I have a cardreader, but Windows 10 did not find a driver for it. I have not bother with it till now, cause I will be installing a clean Win10pro. Hopefully.

It doesn't matter if there is a driver or not, not from the BIOS point of view. The OS (Windows) isn't loaded at that point. Boot support would be baked into the BIOS, or not.

Any way to disable it in BIOS ?

Ok, I looked inside the Bios and nothing on Cardreader. I also tried to disable the OS defaults and I got scared when I got this attetion msg. I did not go forward to disable it.