Bios rev 5.0 how to open all settings. Setting up the BIOS to boot from a flash drive. Problems when solving the task on AMIBIOS and Phoenix BIOS
Not from a DVD, as many people usually do, but from a USB device, then the first thing you need to do is go into Bios and set it to boot from a flash drive. Otherwise, nothing will work out for you. Because when booting, the computer will access either the hard drive or the DVD.
In this article I will try to describe it in as much detail as possible and for different versions of Bios.
Booting from a flash drive in BIOS
I won’t be wrong if I say that laser discs are slowly fading into the background. More and more personal computers are being produced without DVD-ROMs. The distribution of the operating system also does not have to be on a DVD; it can easily fit on a flash drive. I wouldn’t be surprised if those too soon disappear, giving way to cloud storage. One way or another, as long as the technology exists, you need to be able to use it.
How to get into Bios
Each manufacturer of computers and laptops has its own buttons to enter the BIOS, such as “F1”, “F2”, “TAB”, etc.
But the most common option is, of course, “Delete”.
Being directly in the BIOS, we are interested in the “Boot” section - it is there that the parameters that we need are changed.
Phoenix Award
It's a rarity now. I remember it from old computers with the Windows 98 operating system. I just had one like that.
The first thing we do in this and subsequent cases is to check whether the USB controller is activated. To do this we need to go to the "Peripherals" section.
And opposite the inscription “USB Controller” the “Enable” parameter should be set. If it is missing, it should be included. This is done using Up and Down - go to the desired line, press Enter and select.
Now press "ESC" (this is an exit from the previous menu) and head to "Advanced". Here we are interested in the line “First Boot Device”, where using the method described above we set the value to “USB-HDD”, as shown in the screenshot below.
Award
Again, the very first thing we do is check whether the controller is connected. We are heading to “Integrated Peripherals”.
Find "USB Controller". Use Enter to select the "Enable" value.
We return to the main window with the ESC key, go to “Advanced BIOS Features” and then “Hard Disk Boot Priority”.
The picture above, unfortunately, shows loading from a hard drive. And there should be “Patriot Memory”. You can change it using “+” on the keyboard by going to the desired line.
The next step is to press Enter on the “First Boot Device” line. We now have “CD-ROM” there, but we need to install the already familiar “USB-HDD” or “USB-FDD”.
And save the settings by going to “Save & Exit Setup”.
AMI
Again, at the very beginning, we check the functionality of the USB controller. To do this, go to “Advanced” and then “USB Configuration”.
Please note that “Enable” is set opposite “USB 2.0 Controller” and “USB Function”.
As you can see from the picture below, the hard drive is currently exposed. Using Enter, change the position to “Patriot Memory”.
It should look like this.
Then we go to “Boot Device Priority”.
BIOS UEFI
For example, I will use a Lenovo laptop.
After turning it on, simultaneously press the En+F2 hotkey combination. This takes us to InsydeH20 Setup Utility. It can be seen more often in laptops from Toshiba and Acer. Using the Up and Down buttons we go to “Security” and, on the contrary, “Secure Boot” we set it to “Disabled”. Attention, I highlighted this word for a reason!
Now go to “Boot” and look. There should be UEFI next to "Boot Mode".
Hello dear friends and foes! In previous articles we told you about how to prepare for installing Windows. This means downloading official Windows distributions directly from Microsoft servers, creating a bootable flash drive, preparing the computer for installation/reinstallation of the system, as well as logging into Bios on different computers and laptops running different OSes.
Today is an article from the same series. We will learn how, by going into Bios, in the settings, set the OS to boot from a flash drive or from a CD/DVD disk, that is, from external media.
In most cases, we need to boot from an external drive to install the system or to test the system using some kind of LiveCD. But still this is not always the case. Sometimes it happens that a separate operating system is recorded on some external HDD for some specific needs. For these two cases, you can use the BIOS settings differently to run from external media. Let's try to take a more specific look at all the possible options for launching from a flash drive.
For a one-time launch from a flash drive, you can use BootMenu. To call this menu there are special hot buttons on the keyboard. They vary for different manufacturers. But in most cases these are the F8, F11, F12 buttons and, a little less often, Esc (in one of the following articles I will tell you in detail how to switch to BootMenu from various motherboards and OS). When calling BootMenu A menu appears with options for selecting the device from which to launch. Here all you have to do is select your flash drive and press the Enter button.
Important: In order for your flash drive to appear in the list, you need to connect it to the computer before turning on the computer or rebooting it.
Setting up booting from a flash drive in AMI Bios
To install boot from a flash drive in AMI BIOS need to:
Running from a flash drive in Bios Award and Phoenix
In these versions of Bios, to go to the settings that are responsible for connected devices, you must select the 2nd item Advanced BIOS Features(translated from English - Advanced Bios settings).
In the next submenu, select the item First Boot Device(same as 1st Boot Device, that is first boot device). A list of devices that you can select to download will open. These are Floppy, HDD, CD/DVD, USB-HDD and others. To boot from a flash drive, I recommend choosing USB-HDD or USB-Flash, and to boot from a CD (CD/DVD) select CD-ROM. 
After that, first press Enter, and then Esc (Escape exit). We find ourselves in the menu 1 level higher. Here we go to the penultimate menu item on the right " Save & Exit Setup" (Save and exit).
Version InsydeH20 BIOS mostly found on laptops. The actions that need to be performed in it to boot from a flash drive are similar to the actions in AMI Bios. Here, also in the main menu, move to the right to the item " Boot". Next, you need to enable the boot function from external media. To do this, switch the option " External Device Boot" to position Enabled (included). After this, we set the download priority using " Boot Priority" on External Device Boot, that is, External Device Boot should be higher than others in the list. 
This is for a flash drive. For a CD/DVD disc, you need to move the item to the first line Internal Optical Disc Drive(translated from English - " internal optical drive"). Next we move to the point " Exit" and select the item " Save and Exit Setup".
Changing boot device in UEFI
If you have read one of the previous articles on the project, you should already know that UEFI usually has a graphical interface. Therefore, changing the settings for booting from a flash drive is more understandable and convenient for ordinary users. No one should have any difficulties here, especially since above we have become familiar with the terms commonly used by all manufacturers. The only difference may be in the location of the settings items, and also in the fact that in some versions UEFI You can simply drag and drop devices to change boot priorities.
Results:
In this article, I tried to show you how to configure booting from a flash drive in the most common BIOSes. If you have some kind of exotic Bios or Uefi on your computer and you don’t know what’s there and how, then you are welcome to comment.
In the Windows 7, 8, 10 operating systems, it is possible to start booting from external media without entering Bios/Uefi, but I will briefly tell you about this in one of the following articles. In order not to miss out, I advise you to subscribe to blog updates by email. Your emails will not fall prey to spammers, for which I guarantee.
The other day they brought me a laptop Lenovo IdeaPad B5030 with Windows 8 installed. It was necessary to cure it of viruses. I inserted a flash drive with special anti-virus software into it and tried to boot from it. This turned out to be not as easy as you might think.
The fact is that this laptop, like most other modern laptops (released in 2013, 2014 and later), has BIOS UEFI. And in order to set boot from a flash drive in such a Bios, you need to work a little harder :)
Laptop with Bios UEFI You won’t be able to just boot from a flash drive, since it has special protection - the secure boot protocol “ Secure Boot”, which is based on special certified keys (available only in Windows 8). Secure Boot will not allow you to boot your laptop from any boot disk or flash drive other than the Windows 8 installation disk. Therefore, to boot your laptop from a flash drive, you must first disable this Secure Boot protocol in the BIOS of your laptop.
But even this is not all: as a rule, it is not enough to disable only one Secure Boot in the UEFI interface. You must also enable “compatibility mode for other operating systems.” In different laptops it is called differently: “CSM”, “CSM Boot”, “UEFI and Legacy OS”, “Legacy BIOS”, “CSM OS”. In laptops Lenovo it is called "".
So, I'm telling you how I booted a Lenovo laptop from a flash drive:
To get into the BIOS of a Lenovo laptop– you need to press two keys on the keyboard immediately after turning it on: Fn+F2:
The BIOS will open in front of us InsydeH20 Setup Utility, typical for most modern laptops (Lenovo, Acer, Toshiba).
Using the arrows on the keyboard, go to the section Security. Here we go down to the point Secure Boot and set it to position Disabled(“Disabled”): 
Next we go to the section Boot. Here opposite the point Boot Mode will be exhibited UEFI:
We change it to .
Here (under it) opposite the point Boot Priority automatically set Legacy First.
And now we exit here, saving the changes made. To do this, go to the section Exit. Use the Enter key to select the item Exit Saving Changes– then click Yes:
The laptop will reboot.
Now we need set the laptop to boot from a flash drive. We insert our bootable USB flash drive into its free USB connector. We go back to the BIOS (by holding down the keys Fn+F2).
Go to the section Boot. Our flash drive will appear here (USB HDD item): 
Using the keys Fn+F6 raise it to first place in the list of boot devices: 
And then again we go to the section Exit. Select an item Exit Saving Changes– click next Yes.
All! After this, the laptop will boot from the flash drive.
In order to install the operating system on your computer, you need to configure it to boot from a flash drive or disk. Therefore, in today’s article we will look at how to enable booting from a flash drive in the BIOS. This must be done to begin installing Windows. Because if you just insert a bootable USB flash drive with the system, nothing will happen. Your old OS will start loading. If you have not yet downloaded the latest version of the operating system, then read the article - How. Let's now proceed directly to the setup process itself.
After restarting the computer, it is not always necessary to go into the motherboard BIOS for configuration. First, let's try to use the Boot Menu. To do this, before the system starts to boot, you must press the “F8” key, thereby a special window should appear with a list (boot menu) of connected drives. In this menu you need to select our flash drive with the OS recorded on it.
After this, it should begin, namely copying the installation files to the hard drive. After the computer reboots itself, Windows installation will begin from the hard drive.
If for some reason you are unable to open the boot menu, then let’s start figuring out how to set the BIOS to boot from a flash drive. But first, I want to briefly tell you what a BIOS is. 
BIOS (basic input/output system - “basic input/output system”)- a special set of embedded software that implements the application programming interface necessary for working with computer components and devices connected to it. 
In order to get into the BIOS settings, you need to have time to press the “Delete” or “F2” button or any other button, depending on when the computer is initially booting. At this point in time, the monitor will display the logo of the motherboard manufacturer or information about the processor, memory and hard drives. In this case, something like this will be written at the bottom of the screen:
- "Press Del to enter Setup"
- “Press F2 for Settings” or similar.
After clicking one of the buttons, you will be taken to the BIOS settings. Depending on the board, the software of the basic I/O system may vary. I propose to consider the most popular options, and also configure them to boot from a flash drive.
If your board has an AMI BIOS installed, then in order to set the disk loading order, you and I need to perform the following steps:
Note! The flash drive must be connected before you enter the BIOS, otherwise it will not be detected for you.
If your motherboard has AWARD or Phoenix BIOS, then to configure Windows boot from a flash drive, follow these steps:
Many modern laptops have the InsydeH2O BIOS installed, and many are faced with the problem of setting the disk boot order. Let's look at this problem together. We will carry out everything point by point so as not to make mistakes.
Note! If you need to install booting from a CD or DVD, then you need to put “Internal Optic Disc Drive” in the first place.
- After the settings have been made, go to the “Exit” menu section and select the “Save and Exit Setup” item, thereby we will save the changes made and exit the BIOS.
Currently, many motherboard manufacturers install, instead of the usual BIOS, UEFI software, which has a graphical interface, as well as support for mouse control and a Russified menu. This makes it easier for us to solve the problem of how to set the BIOS to boot from a flash drive.
If you are lucky, and when you go into the BIOS you see that the graphical interface has loaded in front of you, then you need to go to additional settings by pressing the “F7” key or the corresponding button in the main window. In the menu that appears, you need to go to the “Loading” tab and in the “Disk loading order” item, put our bootable USB flash drive in first place. 
After the changes have been made, press the “F10” key and select “Save settings and restart the computer.”
Let's summarize.
In today's article, we looked at how to set the BIOS to boot from a flash drive. At the same time, I tried to show in as much detail as possible how this is done in different BIOS versions. As a rule, all settings boil down to placing the bootable USB flash drive or disk with the system first in the queue. Many users have difficulties with this, since the interface is in English. But as you can see, developers are doing everything possible to adapt the BIOS for all users. This is clearly visible in the new UEFI software.
Hi all! Today I want to tell you how to set boot from flash drive in BIOS. Why this might be needed, for example, you made a bootable USB flash drive and want, for example, to install Windows 10. It may also be useful: when necessary, set to boot from DVD and CD in the BIOS. Many administrators who are just encountering this for the first time, for example, when restoring a system, may lose a lot of time due to ignorance, not understanding what they are doing wrong. I hope that these instructions will be useful to you and you will once and for all understand the principle of this action,
Via Boot Menu to boot from a flash drive
In most cases, booting from a flash drive into the BIOS is required for some one-time task: installing Windows, scanning the computer for viruses using LiveCD, resetting the Windows password.
In all these cases, it is not necessary to change the BIOS or UEFI settings; it is enough to call the Boot Menu when you turn on the computer and select the USB flash drive as a boot device once.
For example, when installing Windows, you press the desired key, select the connected USB drive with the system distribution, start the installation - setting up, copying files, etc., and after the first reboot occurs, the computer will boot from the hard drive itself and continue the installation process as usual mode.
I wrote in great detail about entering this menu on laptops and computers of various brands in the article How to enter the Boot Menu.
How to get into the BIOS to select boot options
In different cases, in order to get into the BIOS setup utility, you need to perform essentially the same actions: immediately after turning on the computer, when the first black screen appears with information about the installed memory or the logo of the computer or motherboard manufacturer, click the desired button on the keyboard - the most common options are Delete and F2. Typically, this information is available at the bottom of the initial screen: “Press Del to enter Setup”, “Press F2 for Settings” and similar. By pressing the right button at the right moment (the sooner the better - this must be done before the operating system starts loading) you will be taken to the settings menu - BIOS Setup Utility. The appearance of this menu may vary; let’s look at a few of the most common options.
I would like to give you a summary table of all the buttons for entering the BIOS from different manufacturers.
Changing the boot order in UEFI BIOS
On modern motherboards, the BIOS interface, or more precisely, the UEFI software, is usually graphical and, perhaps, more understandable when it comes to changing the order of boot devices.
In most options, for example on Gigabyte (not all) or Asus motherboards, you can change the boot order simply by dragging the disk images accordingly with the mouse.
If this is not possible, look in the BIOS Features section, in the Boot Options item (the last item may be located in a different place, but the boot order is set there).
Setting up booting from a flash drive in AMI BIOS
Please note that in order to perform all the described steps, the flash drive must be connected to the computer in advance, before entering the BIOS. To set boot from a flash drive in AMI BIOS:
- In the menu at the top, press the “right” key and select “Boot”.
- After that, select the Hard Disk Drives item and in the menu that appears, press Enter on 1st Drive.
- In the list, select the name of the flash drive - in the second picture, for example, it is Kingmax USB 2.0 Flash Disk. Press Enter, then Esc.
Menu for BIOS boot settings
Next step:
- Select “Boot device priority”
- Select “First boot device”, press Enter,
- Again, specify the flash drive.
If you need to boot from a CD, then specify the DVD ROM drive. Press Esc, in the menu at the top from the Boot item, move to the Exit item and select Save changes and exit or “Exit saving changes” - when asked if you are sure that If you want to save the changes you have made, you will need to select Yes or type “Y” from the keyboard, then press Enter. After this, the computer will reboot and begin using the flash drive, disk, or other device you selected to boot.
Booting from a flash drive into BIOS AWARD or Phoenix
In order to select a device to boot into Award BIOS, in the main settings menu, select Advanced BIOS Features, then with First Boot Device selected, press Enter.
A list of devices from which you can boot will appear - HDD-0, HDD-1, etc., CD-ROM, USB-HDD and others. To boot from a flash drive, you must install a USB-HDD or USB-Flash. To boot from a DVD or CD - CD-ROM. After that, go up one level by pressing Esc, and select the menu item “Save & Exit Setup”.
Setting up boot from external media in H2O BIOS
To boot from a flash drive into the InsydeH20 BIOS, which is found on many laptops, in the main menu, using the “right” key, you need to go to the “Boot” item. Set External Device Boot to Enabled. Below, in the Boot Priority section, use the F5 and F6 keys to set External Device to the first position. If you need to boot from DVD or CD, select Internal Optic Disc Drive.
After that, go to Exit in the menu at the top and select “Save and Exit Setup”. The computer will reboot from the desired media.
Boot from USB without entering BIOS (Windows 8, 8.1 and Windows 10 with UEFI only)
If your computer has one of the latest versions of Windows installed, and the motherboard has UEFI software, then you can boot from a flash drive without even entering the BIOS settings.
To do this: go to settings - change computer settings (via the panel on the right in Windows 8 and 8.1), then open “Update and Recovery” - “Recovery” and click the “Restart” button in the “Special boot options” item.
On the “Select Action” screen that appears, select “Use device.” USB device, network connection, or DVD."
On the next screen you will see a list of devices from which you can boot, which should include your flash drive. If suddenly it is not there, click “View other devices”. After selection, the computer will reboot from the USB drive you specified.
Just like that, just select boot from a flash drive in the BIOS. Site material