I ran into a problem, when I wanted to run a live Linux OS on my Windows laptop. I could not find a way to have it boot from my USB flash drive. After some leg work, I discovered that due to my not having a BIOS password (or UEFI password), my BIOS / UEFI would not allow me to boot from a USB device. The fix was simple. I went into the UEFI, set a password, and that solved the problem. It was over 3 years ago, so there might have been one other step. There might have been a UEFI menu with an option to enable booting from a USB device. I can't remember. Regardless, the password for the UEFI was mandatory for being able to boot from a USB device. The above was on an Acer laptop.
@@zaibatsu_47 "Instructions for setting a UEFI password?" Boot into your BIOS, and search for wherever it allows you to set up a password. You might be able to find a video, if you search for your laptop's model, or your motherboard's mode. I do not have additional instructions, because the navigation inside a computer's BIOS varies wildly, from manufacturer to manufacturer, from model to model, from version to version. But someone in there should be an option for setting up a password.
It's surprising there hasn't been more interest in this much-needed and important element in the backup process. Perhaps because it's the province of the highly proficient? In my ignorance of such matters, perhaps doing a "factory image" would be (much) more easily achieved? If not, doing a "backup" would appear to be hardly a realistic proposition, after all.
Well, yes and no. I was trying to boot a Dell laptop from a memory stick; F12 gets me into the boot priority options as you suggest in this article, but then the options were incomprehensible. There was no "Boot from A:" as I was hoping, just two selectable UEFI options. Neither of them when selected and restarting the computer seemed to achieve anything.
It’s harder than it used to be - all in the name of security.
I ran into a problem, when I wanted to run a live Linux OS on my Windows laptop.
I could not find a way to have it boot from my USB flash drive.
After some leg work, I discovered that due to my not having a BIOS password (or UEFI password), my BIOS / UEFI would not allow me to boot from a USB device.
The fix was simple.
I went into the UEFI, set a password, and that solved the problem.
It was over 3 years ago, so there might have been one other step. There might have been a UEFI menu with an option to enable booting from a USB device. I can't remember. Regardless, the password for the UEFI was mandatory for being able to boot from a USB device.
The above was on an Acer laptop.
Instructions for setting a UEFI password?
@@zaibatsu_47 "Instructions for setting a UEFI password?"
Boot into your BIOS, and search for wherever it allows you to set up a password.
You might be able to find a video, if you search for your laptop's model, or your motherboard's mode.
I do not have additional instructions, because the navigation inside a computer's BIOS varies wildly, from manufacturer to manufacturer, from model to model, from version to version.
But someone in there should be an option for setting up a password.
It's surprising there hasn't been more interest in this much-needed and important element in the backup process. Perhaps because it's the province of the highly proficient? In my ignorance of such matters, perhaps doing a "factory image" would be (much) more easily achieved? If not, doing a "backup" would appear to be hardly a realistic proposition, after all.
Well, yes and no. I was trying to boot a Dell laptop from a memory stick; F12 gets me into the boot priority options as you suggest in this article, but then the options were incomprehensible. There was no "Boot from A:" as I was hoping, just two selectable UEFI options. Neither of them when selected and restarting the computer seemed to achieve anything.
Like I believe I say in the video, this is EXTREMELY manufacturer-specific. You should reach out to whomever made your computer for instructions.
I guess that’s “boot from the floppy disk”?
Das boot, ya?