Booting from memory stick

Support & Help Requests
1

I want to boot my computer from a memory stick but my bios onlny shows 2 possibilities:
1 The hard drive
2 The disc drive

2

You need to give more information. What is your computer make (HP Dell, etc?) and year it was manufactured? Do you know if it supports booting from a USB or Memory stick? A lot of computers did no until the last days of XP and the start of Vista? There are some that have work arounds, if you give some info.

3

Some BIOS have the possibility to display a boot menu to choose where to boot from, is there something like this displayed on your BIOS screen?

4

Is “Secure Boot” activated in BIOS and your using a USB-Stick for MBR (non-UEFI) as target system ? If yes the USB-Stick will not be shown in the Boot Menu. Try creating the bootable USB-Stick using UEFI as target system or deactivate “Secure Boot” (may not always be a good idea !) and use a bootable USB-Stick with MBR as target system.

This is my experience with 2 Acer notebooks (4 and 1 year(s) old).