Hello all

Wanted to give an update. Despite all my best efforts, it would not boot at all. I RMA'd it, and Asus fixed it. All working again. Not sure if they replaced the HD or just did something...

Thanks. I tried the drive in my main PC and the windows loading screen came up with away (a Dell). It's got to be something about the PC not picking up the drive correctly, I just don't know what.
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Thanks both for the details replies!

So, everything works OK APART from seeing a UEFI option. All I see is:

Bootoverride
PO: ST1000LM035 - I assume the physical hard drive
Windows Boot...

Yeah, fat32 for sure.
How do I know its UEFI capable? Do I still manually have to add it in the BIOS as a different boot item (I actually didn't this time round and it picked it up)

This is the...

EDIT OK finally it moved somewhere! I got the USB menu up (I had to ENABLE CMS, not disable it).

I clicked on the USB to boot from there, and now just a black screen. No windows install screen :(...

My sons ASUS laptop stopped booting correctly. It gets to the ASUS screen and stays there. Sometimes it comes up with the ASUS recovery message 'preparing automatic repair'. It eventually comes up...