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is there a windows tool that lets me boot from a usb drive without entering the bios

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Just set the boot order in BIOS to boot from USB first. If it detects a USB then it will boot from that first but if you don't have a USB installed then it moves on down the list.

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Not as far as I know. Windows doesn't have that kind of low level access and isn't responsible for determining what drive is booted from. 

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You mean like Windows To Go?

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Just set the boot order in BIOS to boot from USB first. If it detects a USB then it will boot from that first but if you don't have a USB installed then it moves on down the list.

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Yesish.

 

If on Windows 8 or windows 10 reboot into advanced startup (hold shift, open start, click reset, wait for machine to restart, then release shift), and from there there's options to "Boot other devices".

 

AFAIK though it still requires your UEFI or BIOS to recognize the device.

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