Hp Pavilion G6 Boot From Usb

[Oday Forster]

Iam trying to restore an HP Pavilion 15 Notebook(2014 vintage) which was running Windows 8.1 before a disk head crash, which required me to replace the internal HDD. When I try to re-install Windows from a set of 3 Windows 8 recovery media using an external DVD/CD drive (the internal one having died long ago) I do not see an option in Boot Manager to boot from a USB CD/DVD ROM even though I have changed the UEFI Boot order to have the USB CD/DVD ROM Drive option at the head of the list, and CD-ROM Boot is enabled in the Boot Options screen of BIOS (or rather InsydeH20 Setup Utility). The only options are OS Boot Manager and Boot from EFI File. There is a legacy boot order which has the USB CD/DVD ROM drive at the end of the list but this is greyed out. How can I get the machine to boot from an external USB CD/DVD ROM drive?

Well, actually, I'd abandon Windows 8.1, if at all feasible, and move to more modern Windows 10 or a Linux distro, such as Ubuntu (Linux tends to run better on older machines that may be slow on Windows 10).

I used Macrium Reflect to make a backup of my HP Pavilion laptop. Macrium Reflect uses a USB stick which is set up to boot the computer when there is a need to install the backup. I thought I had told the computer to boot from the USB stick if one is inserted, but the laptop always boots the normal way.

a suggestion for OP to look up the HP pavilion laptop model on the HP computer support site, then look for the Manuals section and click on the user guide link and read the section for entering bios setup

Actually, on the HP Pavilion laptop, the trick to get to the BIOS is to start the booting process and rapidly keep pressing the ESC key. It takes you right to the BIOS, where you can specify the boot sequence.

My problem was RESOLVED. To get to the BIOS on an HP Pavilion laptop, keep pressing ESC quickly when the boot process starts. That takes you right to the BIOS, where you can alter and save the boot sequence.

I was not able to boot my laptop yesterday morning as I saw a blue screen error. It automatically went for the recovery but it could not boot. I shut down the laptop and restarted it again. It went through the HP blue logo and then stuck at Automatic Repairs and started looping through the process again and again.

I contacted HP about the issue and they pushed me into a "SmartFriend" contract for a year and I had no choice but to buy it since I am not sure how to proceed next. They asked me to run a diagnostics test that retred as follows: SMART check : PASSED, Long DST Passed. I guess that says that my drive is mechanically intact. Afterwards, an agent sent me two web links to download the USB recovery media. I made the recovery media by myself by following the instructions.

After creating the USB recovery media, I inserted the USB into the slot and hit F9 before startup could proceed to select the USB Boot Option (UEFI) from the Boot Menu. At first, the laptop did not respond at all. It stuck on the HP logo again. I shut down the laptop and tried again. It passed through the HP Logo with a "loading" symbol beneath and ended up on a completely blue screen. I shut it down again tried the same thing again. And now the laptop is stuck at HP Logo with a he "loading" symbol beneath it. Two agents hung up on me last night. I don't know how to proceed and I also need the data on the device drive.

if they sent you to the Microsoft link to create recovery media using the media creation tool, then if you don't delete or format any partitions, you can install W10 over the current installation, and it will create a windows.old folder.

Thanks for responding. I tried doing the legacy mode boot using the USB drive. The laptop stuck on an older Blue logo of Windows. HP Sent me a media recovery creation tool which is proprietary. I dont think its from Microsoft as they said it is specific to my system. I really need to save my data as I have a ton of it.

Whatever you mentioned about the Windows.old, they never mentioned. I will try the lagacy option again in the meantime. Thank you.

But turns out, my RAM has failed. It's failing the memory check test in HP diagnostics. Do you think that a RAM failure can prevent normal boot or recovery boot processes? I'm absolutely clueless about this stuff. Please help. Thank you for your time.

So I opened my laptop (nervewracking experience TBH) and swapped the memory module slot from the one it was in to an open slot. I turned the computer on and ran the memory check test from the diagnostics menu and it failed again. Now I think either the memory module has failed or both the slots on the motherboard have failed, which I personally think is unlikely. I also use a surge protetor so I don't think there was a power surge to cause it.

The boot is still unsuccessful. It still loops through the HP Logo -> HP Logo with "Preparing Automatic Repairs" Caption -> Proceeds to Blue Screen with STOP CODES. The unique thing is that every time it loops, the Blue screen shows a different STOP CODE. I have managed to note these so far

I have tried everything I can think of but my HP Pavilion 11 x2 will not boot from USB...I have Windows 10 currently installed on it and need to boot from USB to allow me to install a new OS on the machine.

I've now managed to contact HP support on Live chat and they gave me all manner of things to try but none worked. All I want is for my HP to boot from USB......the OS I want to install is OSX Yosemite......The last suggestion live hep gave me was to completely wipe my hard drive and not ormat it and that will definately solve the problem...suprise, suprise it didn't. I've even formated my hard drive to HFS+ to see if that would help......nope still the same problm.

I've tried every tool out there for creating a OSX Yosemite USB and none of them work on my machine.....I know they work beacuase if I plug them into a different machine they all allow me to boot from USB.

mine was delivered with win 8.1 with bing. it was alright to use, but i was unable to bring this machine to connect to my office domain. due to the lack of networking features which is only available in the pro or enterprise version of win 8.1.

i tried many ways to load in a win 8.1 pro os. the disc is authentic, keys are authentic, usb stick or optical drives; it makes no differences. the machine just refuse to boot into the usb disc / stick like all other previous system does.

had tired everything that i can think of, talking to HP was like talking to an answering machine, and they were asking the most bacis questions ... "were you able to select 'legacy boot' from the bios menu?" ... even when i tell them there isnt a legacy boot option in the bios ... they were too amature .

I don't know if this will help you, as it has been a few weeks, but I believe I found a possible answer to the problem you were having. I recently picked up an HP Pavillion x2, and was looking for a way to make an image of the base system before I start whacking on it. I've used Clonezilla for this in the past, and found a bootable USB version on the Clonezilla.org site:

Basically, whatever boot image you want to use needs to be a "uEFI secure boot" compatible image. I was able to follow the instructions on the above site and have made a Clonezilla boot drive on a USB flash drive. I haven't tried any other Linux distros, but if I do, I'll try to find one that says it's compatible with uEFI secure boot. I saw the option in the bios to turn this off, but in my case I don't need to.

Remember I had win 10 upgraded from win 8.1 from within the 8.1 system. Hence my product key 8.1 was converted and registered by microsoft for win 10 before the reinstallation, so my version will automatically be validated.

I'm curious to hear what you think of the system running on Windows 10. My Pavillion 11 x2 has such limited memory under Windows 8.1 that it's practically useless. It has 4 GB RAM, but with only Chrome running with 3 or 4 tabs open, it uses about nearly 3 GB and becomes fairly unresponsive. Just wondering if Win 10 has a lower memory footprint and if it would be worth it to upgrade.

How are you booting through the USB? make sure you set your BIOS boot to UEFI if your machine is UEFI compatible otherwise use Legacy boot for older type machines. This should work otherwise use one RAM module at a time to see if the machine can boot, sometimes RAM faults can be the issue even if system checks are done. System checks are not low level meaning they do not go deep within the system architecture to look for faults.

If it were me, (knowing that it is quite old and in need of some servicing) I would strip it right down, clean air filters, reseat CPU, check for any swollen capacitors, check for signs of damage near the power jack and the battery charging circuits, etc, and then try gain. It will take you about 30 minutes and if having done that it still misbehaves, then you have ruled out many possibilities. Also, as an aside, I might be tempted to reflow the solder on the motherboard whilst it is stripped down.

The other thing it could be and I know it sounds like it is way out in left field is a magnetic clasp on a watch or bracelet. My previous laptop was an HP and when I wore one of my bracelets with a rare earth magnet my laptop would blue screen, or restart, or die or some other form of non specifically duplicate-able error. Took me days to figure out it was the bracelet because no other computer reacted to it the way the HP did.

3a8082e126