This ASUS X551CA machine wants F2 to access the BIOS. Already been
there and told it to use the Microsoft Boot Manager which allowed me to
select boot from USB... which it tried to do and failed. Had I not done
that it would have simply booted from the existing hard drive which
works fine.
I knew about F2 after downloading the user's manual from ASUS and
reading the BIOS section. But you mentioned "quick boot" which I think
it what this manual calls "Fast Boot" under Boot Configuration along
with another choice called "Launch CSM". Fast Boot is enabled by
default and Launch CSM is disabled by default. The BIOS portion of the
user's manual shows these items as part of the BIOS configuration but
never mentions or defines them. I've never heard of them and have no
idea what they're supposed to do.
Perhaps I should play a little more.
Chuck Norcutt
On 4/13/2015 4:44 PM, Scott Gomez wrote:
What the Moose sayeth. And also: My Asus desktop machine has a "boot
selector" option that appears early in the boot process. I believe it's
either by pressing F9, F11 or F12 that one can interrupt the boot process
and then select an alternate boot location. If possible, get into the BIOS
and deselect the option for quick boot, in order to see all boot messages
appear on the screen, at which point you should see a choice for selective
boot.
On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 12:07 PM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 4/13/2015 9:43 AM, Piers Hemy wrote:
Ummm, I hesitate to teach Dr DOS about eggs, but could it be the BIOS
needs
attention to permit booting from a USB device?
And ... The BIOS on my desktop allows control of which devices are allowed
for boot, and in which order.
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A friends computer wont boot. ...
I have no idea why the drive can be read from and written to by Reflect
but the end product is not bootable. I have some other cloning software
where marking the drive as bootable or changing the drive ID on the
clone are options. But the free version of Reflect has no such options
and, of course, works on my own computer just fine.
Anyone got a suggestion as to where to look?
As above, look to the BIOS. I have used Reflect Free on both desktop and
laptop. But never attempted to boot from the clone via USB. If you want to
see where the problem lies, put the clone in the computer. If it boots, the
problem in somewhere in USB, BIOS, computer implementation of USB, cable,
USB implementation in the toaster/case. Basic problem isolation.
U Should Be able to figure it out.
Acronymic Moose
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