Windows Cancelling Install

[Lamb]

I am trying to install Windows 8 from a USB drive. Whenever Windows starts installing, it needs to reboot. When the computer reboots, it goes directly to the bios. This cancels installation. My motherboard is the Asus Maximus VI Gene. There is no option to set the USB drive as a high priority. What can I do?

[Joshua]

I am trying to install Windows 8 from a USB drive. Whenever Windows starts installing, it needs to reboot. When the computer reboots, it goes directly to the bios. This cancels installation. My motherboard is the Asus Maximus VI Gene. There is no option to set the USB drive as a high priority. What can I do?

 

Can't you hit whatever button it is to select boot drive, bypass the bios and just get into that? On my mobo, granted it is Gigabyte, not asus, I hit f12 on the screen before the bios and select my boot drive.

[Lamb]

Can't you hit whatever button it is to select boot drive, bypass the bios and just get into that? On my mobo, granted it is Gigabyte, not asus, I hit f12 on the screen before the bios and select my boot drive.

 

Mine just says, press whatever button to boot to the BIOS.

[Joshua]

Mine just says, press whatever button to boot to the BIOS.

Then unfortunately, I can't help you, sorry man.

[Lamb]

Then unfortunately, I can't help you, sorry man.

 

:/ Well. Thanks for trying...

[Lamb]

The problem is fixed. I don't know what I did, I was not at my computer. When I came back, Windows was installed.

[xBlizzDevious]

Wait... You're telling us that you had your computer on with a USB with Windows 8 on it, and when you came back to your computer, Windows had installed itself without you doing anything?

 

Windows SHOULD NOT install itself.

[sof006]

Wait... You're telling us that you had your computer on with a USB with Windows 8 on it, and when you came back to your computer, Windows had installed itself without you doing anything?

 

Windows SHOULD NOT install itself.

I agree.

 

Also the information given in this thread is very vague. It sounds like to me that Windows is expanding the files then after expanding its doing its routine reboot then its SUPPOSED to launch the install again. However for some reason your BIOS seems to like to intervene with the boot process and launches upon boot. I'd just back out of the BIOS, keep the USB stick in and let the install finish where it left off.

 

But since the information is so vague what I have just said could be completely irrelevant. But saying all this if you have said that Windows is installed then great... 

[xBlizzDevious]

Hmm, I don't think so. I think that once Windows has expanded files, it reboots and boots to the drive that got installed to. Don't quote me on that, but I'm fairly sure I took the USB out during that restart of Windows installing and it carried on just fine. But it may have been a different restart.