


Option 2: Set Computer to Boot from USB Drive Using BIOS Setup Make sure you set the boot settings to GPT to use use EUFI settings.If you fail to boot from USB device using Boot Menu, you can try to boot from a USB device using BIOS Setup, keep on reading. There are a lot of windows tools that you can use to create bootable USB flash drive as outlined in this article. If your flash drive boot setting are set to MBR it will not boot with UEFI settings, you need to set it to GPT if you want to boot with MBR settings. You don’t need to worry about this since it comes built into your computer and there is no way of changing it. UEFI acronym for Unified Extensible Firmware is the new interface replacing BIOS. Most modern motherboards now come with UEFI settings as default. If your followed the above methods and you failed to boot from your USB drive the issue might be the boots settings. Your computer will now first search for a USB to boot from when it turns on.Īlso note if it cant find a bootable device you will get the error no bootable device found. Now Click apply to save changes and exit.Use the arrow keys to move the USB device to the top so it becomes the primary boot device.On the General settings tab select Boot order sequence.This works works well if you want the computer to automatically boot from USB every time it turns on. Boot from USB settings in BIOSĪnother option to is to change the boot order in the BIOS of your Dell computer. If you are failing with the above method its probably due to UEFI settings which I will cover below. Dell laptop turning show Dell logo When the computer is booting and you want to boot from USB you press f12 and a message like on the image above should appear showing preparing one time boot Boot menu for Dell computer showing USB storage as boot option When the computer turns on and you press F12 it will give you the option to pick a boot device. The boot menu key for Dell computers is F12. Here is the guide on how to create a bootable USB drive If you have not created or don’t know how create the bootable flash driver. This works on the condition that you have a USB drive that is correctly configured to be bootable. Windows show the connected devices which you can boot from.
