Hp 290 G4 Microtower Pc Boot From Usb

[Su Strawderman]

PleaseI want to boot windows 10 from USB flash disk. When i press F12 when starting i cant see boot from flash disk option or something like that. But i can browse some files when i chose "Boot from file". I think i have bad settings in BIOS but i dont kwow which option i should change. Please, can you give me some tips?

The reason is that I am running Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20.3 in dual mode and want to get rid of that arrangement.

I need someone to help me through adding a second internal HDD and the settings required to select which HDD to load at the time, windows 10 or Linux

I have spare sata drive of 150GB. I also Have the sata cables to connect to the motherboard.

What all is involved in the setup. I know how to get rid of the linux and keep the windows 10 Installation have at present.

Any help and suggestions appreciated.

nevj

I am not much good at partitioning HDD in fact very little experience in doing that. I installed the drive and upon boot up it tells me I have made some changes and if I want to keep them to press F1. I do that and I am still on the same disk that I use for the dual boot. The new HDD shows up as sdb using gparted. I am lost as what do no next.

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Does this look correct so far could not find MSDOS listed. format to ext4. If this looks correct what next? Thanks for your help and understanding.

Look for articles that explain things.

Tutorials alone are not enough. If you just follow a step by step tutorial, somerhing will happen that the tutorial does not cover, and without understanding you will not know what to do.

You have one partition which uses all the disk and is formated for an ext4 filesystem.

You might need a swap partition , or you could use a swap file instead.

What you have is a bare minimum. You could install a new linux in that partition.

I am also assuming the disk has an msdos partition table (not gpt). You can find out in gparted, I think under the device button, or maybe under the partition button and ask for properties. Dont change it, just look at what it is.

Nevj

Here is a screen shot of the new HDD that I installed the new Linux mint on. I used a live usb to install with because I could not understand all the terminology and stuff I was reading. I had disconnected the 1 TB drive that I was using for the main HDD, while I installed the new mint system. Did not want to mess anything up on it. This screen shot was using GParted. By the way from what I can tell and read I am using Legacy Bios on Windows 10 which is on the 1 TB drive and uefi bios on the Linux Mint install.

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From a power on of the PC I still am not able to choose what hard drive to load. The Pc always loads drive 0 which has the dual boot arrangement. The only way I can get to drive 1 is to plug its data cable into drive 0 on the mobo.

Sorry, I dont understand either., especially if the manual says you can select which hard drive.l

If you click on hard drive I suppose you get disk 0, not a choice? What if you right click on hard drive?

What is integrated sata? I dont suppose the new disk is a sata drive?

Nevj

I decided to use another HP micro tower model 6200 and was able to set up options Like I wanted I could select what ever drive I wanted.

Decided I would remove the dual boot with Zorin on it.

I removed the partition with zorin on it. Tried to extend the volume of the windows and could not extend the win Partition.

Tried to load windows again and it told me that I would have to enter Bit locker recovery number. Did not notice that the hard drive had a bit lock partition which was sda2. I did nothing to it but still cannot restore MBR to get windows to load automatically. Linux mint loads beautifully from the new drive I added.

Hate to bother you, but tried to get help from one of the windows forums so far no real help.

You have any ideas about this and OK if you do not want to address the issue. Never dealt with Disk encryption before have a great rest of the weekend.

So the bios in the original computer must have been old and only able to fetect one hdd

I dont know about windows, sorry. If that happened to me I would try a new fresh install of Windows

Regards

Neville

I have a notebook running Windows 10. It runs an Insider build and has had problems for months. These include Cortana not working, universal apps not staying open, and other issues. I have talked to friends and we believe something is damaged. It doesn't appear to relate to a specific Insider build. Because of this, I was told that I need to format my hard drive and do a clean install of Windows 10. I created a bootable USB drive, but I'm not sure how to get to the boot menu (I've accessed it before, but only when my PC showed a screen with recovery options on startup.) and how to navigate it to find the USB drive, as it seemed complicated and confusing. How do I change the boot sequence on my computer and boot the USB? Please help as soon as possible. I need this PC for college and other daily activities. Thanks.

Note, that for the PC to boot, the device must be written properly with Windows 10 bootable ISO. In some cases, other things may need to be changed but generally speaking this should work. Provide your feedback and reply, and let me know if you face difficulties

Hi. I got to the boot options with no trouble, but once there, I was only presented with two options: Windows boot manager, or boot from EFI. I know the USB is bootable, but regardless of which port it's in, it doesn't show up. Do you have any suggestions for why this could be and what I can do to fix it? Thanks.

Try re-creating it. You can directly download Windows 10 ISO from MS site or download Media creation tool from Microsoft site, create installation DVD or installation USB and proceed with clean installation/reinstallation.

Hi. I'll try these things. I already tried to recreate the media, and it made no difference, so I don't think that's the problem. The USB drive works for everything else, so I don't see how there could be a problem with it. I'll make sure these things are disabled and try again. Thanks.

Would you be able to provide me with more information what are you trying to do, what are you trying to boot from, for what purpose ? What is your PC model and product number (p/n) >> -en/document/c00033108

This is happening because Windows cannot start/boot .It may be caused due to simple Windows hung, hardware problem (e.g. your HDD) or incorrect BIOS settings, it may be caused by faulty Windows Update, some other faulty update/driver, etc....

The computer should boot from it's recovery partition to open you various recovery options. Note, that F11 option will only work if the recovery partition is there (not deleted) and intact. From there, you have prenty of options to choose from. Every HP computer comes with recovery partition present to assist in tough moments.

I want to upgrade the 4 PC model HP 280 G2 MT, so, I bought the Kingston SSD KC600 for it but the machine doesn't boot the SSD. Does HP will do something to fix it? Because I saw many people have this problem I read many suggestions. Some of them buy new HP SSD but I think, it not the right way to fix it.

Mine was working fine until I did a BIOS upgrade. Now locks up on booting with Samsung EVO 850 SSD. Tried WD and it seems to work alright! But this is not fair trying to find another SSD when you know itusby truaħ and error if it's compatible or not! This Bios upgrade is flawed.

What version of BIOS do you have on this PC? The BIOS A0.35 should work fine with your SSD. I had same problem like you after upgrading BIOS to A0.41 and any released after that, the system would not boot from SSD. I have not try A0.59 but probably doesn't work either. I downgrade BIOS (some people will tell here that you can NOT do, but I did on my system and it's running fine) to A0.35 and never had problem again with my EVO 860 1TB drive setup as boot drive.

One method for USB booting this machine is to disable the EFI boot sources and enable USB Floppy/CD under Legacy boot sources; we're using the Legacy Boot option to set PXE network boot. It should also possible with an EFI-configured USB drive, but I've not tested that.

EDIT - I've struck this problem with BIOS firmware 2.14 & 2.15, but going to the next version back (2.06) results in success. Still not a fix as we need the higher BIOS level to overcome a USB keyboard/mouse lockout problem during preboot.

Scroll down the list (by using down arrow key). When you are on the last item on the list, scroll down one more time. Then you will see that there is one more entry in the list, which is not being showed. I do not know what exactly this item is, but it let me boot from the USB stick.

I noticed that the hidden item which you enable in the BIOS resets by itself.For me it reset after I had installed the image and taken out the USB stick.When trying to reinstall the image once more, I had to re-enable the hidden item in the BIOS, because the memory stick did not show up.

Press and hold ESC on boot-up to enter BIOS > Select 'Computer Setup' >Storage Menu >Boot Order >Highlight 'EFI Boot Sources' and F5 to disable >Same for (all) Network Controller entries >Same for ATAPI CD/DVD Drive >F10 to AcceptGoto File Menu > Save Changes and Exit

So I can see the pendrive in BIOS and, in fact, I can see pendrives when I'm into Windows, but any way I can't boot the PC from USB, even if I use Plop Boot Manager, a CD which helps to boot from a USB.

Restore your factory default settings, then select the option to Set Defaults and Exit. Reboot, then go back into BIOS to set your boot order back to USB, and your USB ports should boot properly (if your issue was the same as mine).

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