How to boot an Acer Aspire V5 from a bootable USB?

Question

I cannot boot my Acer Aspire V5-471G from a bootable USB stick. Already altered the BIOS in a way that the USB has priority over HDD, but still nothing happens and Windows 8 boots normally from HDD. It's like the USB stick is not plugged into the laptop at all.

What should I do?

Solution

Boot into BIOS Setup and do the following (might not be exact for your BIOS):

• In the Security tab, if Secure Boot is enabled, using your Arrow and Enter key, disable it or change it to "Setup Mode"
• In the Boot tab, if UEFI mode is enabled, change it to Legacy Boot.

This should now show your USB drive as a bootable device.

Note that if Windows was installed with the BIOS in UEFI mode, then it may not boot in Legacy mode.

Comments

[Admin]

I never owned an Acer but from reading stories about attempts to install Linux I've learned that Acers often need UEFI password to enable trust for booting external devices.

[harrymc]

Is the reason for the downvote that this didn't work for you?

[Ravindra Bawane]

SuperUser has some nice formatting options in the editor. Your answer would be greatly improved if you used these to add some basic formatting, such as a list.

[kaiya]

Worked for me. You might need to set up a BIOS password before being able to modify these changes.

[kaiya]

Also, you might need to disable RAID (BIOS -> Main -> Strg+S -> disable VMD Controller) because that might fix your problem with grub not finding your hdd...