Booting from USB on a Gigabyte Laptop

[jrsup114]

Hi everyone,

 

I've seen a few posts regarding booting from USB on a GIGABYTE motherboard, all of which don't apply to my BIOS and thus I cannot boot from USB. My hard drive crashed recently on my laptop and now it won't let me boot into Windows so I figured to try and start fresh. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong but the USB won't show up in the boot menu. My BIOS version is FB05 on a Gigabyte G5 KC.

 

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[BondiBlue]

What method did you use to make the bootable drive? Also, are you sure your hard drive is still working?

[aramini]

Where it says Boot Option Menu, is that just a heading, or is there a sub menu if you click/select that?

 

Have you tried disabling Secure Boot and setting USB options to legacy?

Often times this can be due to a UEFI setting, BIOS is UEFI but bootable USB drive was created as MBR (or vice versa).

 

Also, what exactly do you mean by:

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My hard drive crashed recently on my laptop and now it won't let me boot into Windows

 

What is the message you see?

 

Operating System not found?

Please attach a bootable device?

 

Or do you see a Windows loading screen but it just won't boot into Windows? In which case, have you tried booting into recovery?

 

Also, as BondiBlue pointed out, if the hard drive physically crashed, (hardware failure, not just a corrupted Windows installation) all of this is a pointless until you replace it with a working hard drive.