This post shows you how to boot Windows 8 laptop from USB by simple and easy way.
Because of UEFI bios, you may fail to set your laptop to boot from USB flash drive or CD. If so, you can try the following way to set your Windows 8 laptop to boot from USB drive.
Step 1: Insert an USB flash drive to your laptop.
Step 2: Power on or restart your computer. When Vendor logo (The first text or image screen ) appears, press BOOT MENU KEY to boot your computer to Boot Menu.
Step 3: Choose the USB flash drive and then press enter to boot the laptop from it. Tips: The USB drive may be shown as USB model name (such as Kington USB Disk Pro or SanDisk Cruzer Blade ), select USB-HDD or Removable drive on boot device menu.
BOOT MENU KEY for various desktop computers and laptops:
Mainboard Vendor | Laptop | Desktop computer | |||
Brand | Boot Keys | Brand | Boot Keys | Brand | Boot Keys |
Asus | F8 | Lenovo | F12 | Lenovo | F12 |
Gigabyte | F12 | Acer | F12 | HP | F12 |
MSI | F11 | Asus | ESC | Acer | F12 |
Biostar | F9 | HP | F9 | Dell | ESC |
Soyo | ESC or F12 | Thinkpad | F12 | Hasee | F12 |
Colorful | ESC or F11 | Dell | F12 | Asus | F8 |
Asrock | F11 | Hasee | F12 | Founder | F12 |
Onda | F11 | Toshiba | F12 | Tsinghua Tongfang | F12 |
UNIKA | ESC | Samsung | F12 | Haier | F12 |
ASL | F10 | IBM | F12 | Benq | F8 |
Intel | F12 | Fujitsu | F12 | ||
Foxconn | ESC or F12 | Haier | F12 | ||
Gamen | F11 or F12 | Founder | F12 | ||
Topstar | F11 or F12 | Tsinghua Tongfang | F12 | ||
Yeston | F8 | MSI | F11 | ||
CTHIM | F12 | Benq | F9 | ||
Jetway | ESC | Gigabyte | F12 | ||
Elite | ESC or F11 | Gateway | F12 | ||
Maxsun | ESC | eMachines | F12 | ||
Sony | ESC |
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