USB windows Drive wont boot and have run out of solutions

[PBDrayne]

Hey guys,

 

Problem: Cant install windows 10 the proper way on Acer Aspire E5-572G Laptop.

 

I have tried most common solutions to install windows by enabling formating the drive before install. Got my laptop back after my friend been using it for a year and before i gaved it to him i reinstalled windows the proper way without much problem but this time nothing works. I have tried using 2 different external dvd drives but none gets detected (one some years old, other one is really, really old), disabled secureboot and having enabled legacy support, and now ive bought a usb stick and it still doesnt work.

 

Currently i have installed windows in legacy mode and by doing that i had to first clean the disk partition first otherwise i couldnt format the drive. And now when trying to reinstall in uefi mode it doesnt find the usb boot drive.

[NelizMastr]

Your USB stick needs to have a GPT partion table as well for it to boot in UEFI mode.

[PBDrayne]

9 hours ago, NelizMastr said:

Your USB stick needs to have a GPT partion table as well for it to boot in UEFI mode.

Hmm, How do i do that or checking if it has?

[NelizMastr]

7 minutes ago, PBDrayne said:

Hmm, How do i do that or checking if it has?

Diskpart can tell you this, or even diskmgmt.msc in a working Windows install. Just make the drive with Rufus from a fresh W10 ISO and you'll be sure it's set for UEFI boot.

[paddy-stone]

27 minutes ago, NelizMastr said:

Diskpart can tell you this, or even diskmgmt.msc in a working Windows install. Just make the drive with Rufus from a fresh W10 ISO and you'll be sure it's set for UEFI boot.

Adding to this, that you can see the options to set like UEFI/GPT in the dropdown menus... for RUFUS anyway  Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

[PBDrayne]

Yeah, i converted to gpt and now waiting for the iso to be done on the usb.

 

Still not working to boot, i do believe the bios is not detecting the usb even if its converted to gpt.

 

The list in bios is usb- fdd, -hdd, - cdrom and atapi cdrom, as well hdd and the 2 types of network boot.

 

using windows 7 usb drive tool, gonna try with rufus instead

Edited September 17, 2018 by PBDrayne

[PBDrayne]

This thread is now solved!

 

Using Rufus made it possible to boot from USB Drive, second problem was that the harddrive for some reason was mgr or how its now spelled and not gpt, After first cleaning the disk and converting to gpt, now its correctly installed.