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Offline ivanlovric27121991

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Unable to boot
« on: Sun, 19 March 2023, 03:23:55 »
Hey there ! I have a problem I think you can help me with. I have a Toshiba satellite a300 1G5 and I installed ssd in it. After that  my usb stick is unrecognized in the bios and I can't boot from it to install windows from it. And I marked it as active using diskpart and still nothing.
The error message is "active partitions not found . Press any key "
Thanks.

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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #1 on: Sun, 19 March 2023, 08:52:45 »
My first guess would be a faulty USB drive.
Can you check it in another computer?
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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #2 on: Sun, 19 March 2023, 08:54:27 »
No the stick works fine on the other machine. It boots and everything, dunno

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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #3 on: Sun, 19 March 2023, 08:56:42 »
Quote from: ivanlovric27121991 on Sun, 19 March 2023, 08:54:27
No the stick works fine on the other machine. It boots and everything, dunno

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This thing happens every time I install SSD into it. When I remove the SSD and put the HDD back everything is normal and the USB boots.

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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 19 March 2023, 14:00:26 »
I have one laptop where it will ONLY boot the USB from a cold boot.
If you reboot, no matter what, it will not allow you to boot from any external device. You have no idea how long it took me to figure that one out.

Another problem could be the formatting and how Bios handles it. The bios may be switching to UEFI/GPT/secure boot once it sees a properly formatted drive (i.e. the ssd). Look in the bios and see if there's an option to allow MBR or legacy boot. This option may only show up if secure boot is disabled as secure boot requires GPT formatting.
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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #5 on: Mon, 20 March 2023, 06:34:14 »
Quote from: Leslieann on Sun, 19 March 2023, 14:00:26
I have one laptop where it will ONLY boot the USB from a cold boot.
If you reboot, no matter what, it will not allow you to boot from any external device. You have no idea how long it took me to figure that one out.

Another problem could be the formatting and how Bios handles it. The bios may be switching to UEFI/GPT/secure boot once it sees a properly formatted drive (i.e. the ssd). Look in the bios and see if there's an option to allow MBR or legacy boot. This option may only show up if secure boot is disabled as secure boot requires GPT formatting.

bios has alot of hidden settings they lock away from us.
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Re: Unable to boot
« Reply #6 on: Mon, 27 March 2023, 06:26:57 »
Quote from: tp4tissue on Mon, 20 March 2023, 06:34:14
Quote from: Leslieann on Sun, 19 March 2023, 14:00:26
I have one laptop where it will ONLY boot the USB from a cold boot.
If you reboot, no matter what, it will not allow you to boot from any external device. You have no idea how long it took me to figure that one out.

Another problem could be the formatting and how Bios handles it. The bios may be switching to UEFI/GPT/secure boot once it sees a properly formatted drive (i.e. the ssd). Look in the bios and see if there's an option to allow MBR or legacy boot. This option may only show up if secure boot is disabled as secure boot requires GPT formatting.

bios has alot of hidden settings they lock away from us.

In some cases it's good to hide those settings away, I have seen people mess up things to cause boot/post issues. 

I can bet they dont have the Boot from external media/USB setting enabled - alot of machines have this disabled by default.  Normally this setting is in the boot/system menu in the bios.
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