Try to boot into USB by going to boot Menu or manager and then from there select the USB Installer. If it didn’t work then you have to change your USB and do the steps once again. Ibrahim October 5, 2016 at 11:00 PM Reply. I checked the USB on another laptop it is bootable but my laptop won’t boot from it, I have Asus rog G751j gaming laptop.
I have a 2020 HP laptop. Windows 10 UEFI I installed some apps and my personal stuff and then cloned the drive .
I decided to check out Ubuntu, But being i didn't have enough room on the hard drive, I burned the install onto a USB stick and installed 18.04 to another USB stick. All is well and with an F9 at boot up I could boot from the Ubuntu USB install... got it personalized and added a few apps ect. One recovery app that was a one time only install that I paid money for. R-Studio for Lunux.
Next my Windows hard drive gets corrupted. I can still boot Ubuntu UEFI but not windows. Only the windows partition got corrupted. I used r-Studio for lunux and it recovered some of the stuff and windows still won't boot.
So rather than corrupt that drive as there is still stuff in there, I cloned the orginal drive with JUST WINDOWS 10 ON IT and installed the clone. The boot manager now knows nothIng about Ubuntu. How can I get the UEFI boot menu to see the ubuntu USB pen drive? It will boot if I turn off secure boot and turn on legacy support, but I really would like it back the way it was. It will also boot to Ubuntu using the Dead windows drive that at one time had Ubuntu UEFI on it.
My thoughts... Install ubuntu 18.04 (can I use 20.04 install instead) on another USB stick. That should add the UEFI UBUNTU to the boot manager menu and then just go back to using the old stick of the same size and brand. Will that work
Is it possible to manually edit the windows UEFI boot manager to add Ubuntu to boot the stick manually?
Cronologically
1. Bought new laptop January of 2020 HP Pavilion 15 500gb NVME
2. Installed 'MY STUFF' on it
3. Cloned the Drive to make a backup in March
4. Decided to Install ubuntu 18.04 on USB stick from another USB stick All working OK.. can F9 on boot and can see in boot options UEFI windows and UEFI Ubuntu. Both boot fine, Ubuntu runs off of a 64gb usb stick
5. Windows partition crashes/gets corrupted won't boot. Ubuntu stick will still boot fine using F9 and selecting Ubuntu
6. I purchase R-Studio for Lunux a one time install app, and recover as much as I can, not all.. windows still wont boot, about 25% is unrecoverable with R-Studio
7. I purchase an NVME external usb drive case and install the 'dead' drive to play with it later.
8. I have a 2 TB NVME drive and cloned the backup to it, and now am back to where I was in march .. missing apps, pix ect AND THE UEFI ENTRY FOR UBUNTU
9. If I plug in the Crashed drive, the UEFI menus come up for Windows and Ubuntu. If I select ubuntu .. it boots up and I can remove that drive.
10. I had to turn off secure boot to boot just off of the ubuntu USB stick, but it works.
11. Windows works, Ubuntu boots up and am trying to recover all the stuff that accumulated in the last year. Partly successful
12. If I turn the secure boot back on, I cannot boot Ubuntu from the stick. That's what I want back Can this be manually edited somehow?
My plan
with another 64gb USB stick of the same brand, install Ubuntu 18.04 to that, and have it update the windows UEFI boot manager. Shut down and put in the other stick, but will it boot up? If there is a way to manually update the boot mgr or even copy files from the 'dead' windows boot partition, which is intact.
anybody else have 'A PLAN' of action
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- Try to boot into USB by going to boot Menu or manager and then from there select the USB Installer. If it didn’t work then you have to change your USB and do the steps once again. Ibrahim October 5, 2016 at 11:00 PM Reply. I checked the USB on another laptop it is bootable but my laptop won’t boot from it, I have Asus rog G751j gaming laptop.
- Cloned the Drive to make a backup in March 4. Decided to Install ubuntu 18.04 on USB stick from another USB stick All working OK. Can F9 on boot and can see in boot options UEFI windows and UEFI Ubuntu. Both boot fine, Ubuntu runs off of a 64gb usb stick 5. Windows partition crashes/gets corrupted won't boot.
The general procedure to install Ubuntu (or Ubuntu flavour, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, ...) from a USB flash drive is:
Get the correct Ubuntu installation file, 'the iso file', via this link or Ubuntu flavour via this link. Download the iso file into your running computer (for example into the directory Downloads in the internal drive, not into the USB flash drive that you want to make into a USB boot drive).
Check with md5sum (or another checksum tool) that the download was good.
- Put Ubuntu onto your USB flash drive alias 'stick' alias 'pendrive' alias 'thumb'. Tools for this purpose are described in this help page.
- Configure your computer to boot from USB flash drive and boot from it.
Try Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, ...) before installing it.
- Install Ubuntu to your internal drive (hard disk drive or solid state drive or external drive).
See also: Installation/FromUSBStickQuick for beginners starting from Windows.
Ubuntu can be installed from a USB flash drive. This may be necessary for most new portable computers without DVD drives and is handy for others because a USB flash drive is so convenient. Also, you can configure Ubuntu on the USB flash drive to save changes you make, unlike a read-only CD/DVD disk.
Booting from a USB flash drive created with usb-creator alias Startup Disk Creator and mkusb will behave just as if you had booted from the install CD. It will show the language selection and then the install menu, from which you can install Ubuntu onto the computer's hard drive or launch the LiveCD environment. Other utilities, e.g. UNetbootin, may create slightly different boot drives or if on UEFI might not work at all with Debian iso files due to a bug
Note: This article uses the term 'USB flash drive' alongside USB stick, USB drive, USB device, USB pendrive and thumb drive.
To create a USB installation device, you will need:
a 4 GB USB flash device/drive/stick. If the iso file is smaller than 2 GB, it is possible to use a 2 GB USB device, at least with some of the methods. Files on this USB device will be erased, so backup the files you want to keep before making the device bootable. Some of the tools require that this USB device is properly formatted and mounted while other tools will overwrite whatever is on the target device. Please follow the instructions for each tool.
an Ubuntu flavour ISO file downloaded from an official web page, ubuntu.com/download or http://releases.ubuntu.com, stored in your running computer (for example in the directory Downloads in the internal drive, not in the USB flash drive that you want to make into a USB boot drive).
Check with md5sum (or another checksum tool) that the download was good. In Linux there is the tool 'md5sum'. In Windows you can do it with Rufus: click on the circle with a tick mark (more about Rufus here.)
Dummy headlines
After a major remake of this help page the following headlines are kept here because they may be linked to from other web sites. Several other headlines further down in the page are also kept for this reason.
Notes about speed
Notes about size
Notes about bootability
The flash hardware
There is a detailed description at the sub-page /pre |
There are various methods available for Windows to create a bootable Ubuntu USB flash drive.
NEVER try to use one of your hard disk drives or partitions in this process unless you really know what you are doing, as data will get erased.
Rufus
Rufus is the tool in Windows that is recommended officially by Ubuntu. A tutorial is available from here.
Download Rufus.
balenaEtcher
Download balenaEtcher
Pendrivelinux's Universal USB Installer
Download Universal USB Installer
UNetbootin
Download UNetbootin
Win32 Disk Imager
Download Win32 Disk Imager
There is a detailed description at /fromWindows including Rufus, balena Etcher, Universal USB Installer, Unetbootin and Win32 Disk Imager. |
Install and run Startup Disk Creator alias usb-creator
The Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator is dedicated to creating USB boot drives for Ubuntu and Ubuntu family flavours (Kubuntu, Lubuntu ... Xubuntu).
- Use another tool (e.g. 'UNetbootin' or 'mkusb'), if you want to create a USB boot drive with another Linux distro (alias Linux operating system).
You can find usb-creator-gtk by typing 'Startup Disk Creator' (Ubuntu Desktop) or usb-creator-kde in K-Menu-->Applications-->System-->Startup Disk Creator (Kubuntu). If it is not there, then you can install it using the Ubuntu Software Center.
- Insert and mount the USB drive. Inserting the USB drive should auto-mount it.
- Start the Startup Disk Creator
- In the top pane of the Startup Disk Creator, pick the .iso file that you downloaded.
- If the .iso file isn't listed, click 'Other' to locate and select the .iso file that you downloaded.
- In the bottom pane of the Startup Disk Creator, pick the target device, the USB flash drive. If more than one choice, please check carefully, until you are sure that you will be writing to the correct device.
- After checking that you are pointing to the correct target device, the USB flash drive, you can start the action.
You must enter a password because this is a risky operation. Use the password of the current user ID (the same as for login and running tasks with 'sudo'. Password is not required when installing from a 'live' system (booted from a DVD disk or another USB flash drive).
The Startup Disk Creator clones the iso file, which means that you need neither erase nor format the target drive. It will be completely overwritten anyway by the cloning process. The Startup Disk Creator looks like this in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS:
Screenshots: Startup Disk Creator - to SSD or pendrive
Notes
NEVER try to use one of your hard disk drives or SSDs or partitions in this process unless you really know what you are doing, as data will get erased.
There are bugs that affect the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator, when you run it in old Ubuntu versions in BIOS mode and try to create USB boot drives with other versions. In the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator version 0.3.2 in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, these bugs are no longer a problem, so you can install any version of the Ubuntu flavours from 16.04 LTS and newer versions.
UNetbootin
Download UNetbootin
- UNetbootin works in and with most Linux distros.
- It is an extracting tool (not a cloning tool).
- It can make a persistence file up to 4GB in size to save data and defaults.
mkusb - dd image of iso file to USB device safely
Install mkusb via PPA
If you want to clone from a general image file to a drive, you can use mkusb. It lets you clone to any drive that is not busy, also an internal drive, and there are very obvious warnings to prevent mistakes.
- mkusb can also
- run in Debian and many linux distros that are similar to Ubuntu and Debian,
- clone from iso files of most Linux distros to create USB boot drives,
- create persistent live drives of the Ubuntu family and Debian, using all available drive space for persistence and/or data storage,
- restore a USB boot drive to a standard storage device.
There is a detailed description at /fromUbuntu including the Startup Disk Creator, UNetbootin and mkusb. |
See How to install Ubuntu on MacBook using USB flash drive and this Ubuntu Forum thread by Quackers
There is a good wiki page about booting with UEFI, and a good tutorial thread, UEFI Installing - Tips.
Test if running in UEFI mode
You may want to test if your Ubuntu flavour is running in [U]EFI mode. An installed system and a live system too is using the directory /sys/firmware/efi, so you can run the following command line,
The following command line is more robust and also easier to understand, so you may prefer it (if you copy & paste and are not bothered by typing a long command line),
Boot and install
Stable portable systems - good for USB sticks
Creating an EFI-only image
Ubuntu single boot in UEFI mode
'Do it yourself'
When the boot structure is modified in Ubuntu or the booting software, there can be problems until the extracting tools are modified to manage the modification. It is worthwhile to find a method that is as simple as possible and to learn how to use it in order to manage the extraction also when the boot structure is modified.
- For an UEFI only boot flash drive you need no installer
- Make the drive boot both in UEFI mode and BIOS mode
See this link: Installation/iso2usb#Do_it_yourself
Portable installed system booting from UEFI and BIOS
Multiboot pendrives
Booting ISO files on internal drive
Booting USB drives with grub2 and iso files 'grub-n-iso'
There are more details at the sub-page /alt |
Remove all unneeded USB items, but keep the network cable attached.
Boot menu
Instead of editing BIOS settings, you can choose a boot device from the boot menu. Press the function key to enter the boot menu when your computer is booting. Typically, the boot screen displays which key you need to press. It maybe one of F12, F10, F9.
Edit the BIOS settings
Insert the bootable USB flash drive that you just created in your target computer and restart it. Most newer computers can boot from a USB flash drive. If your computer does not automatically do so, you might need to edit the BIOS settings.
Restart your computer, and watch for a message telling you which key, hotkey to press to enter the BIOS setup.
- It will usually be one of F1, F2, F9, F10, DEL, Enter or ESC.
- The hotkey should be described in the user manual provided by the manufacturer of the computer (a printed or electronic document).
You can also search your hardware on boot-keys.org.
Press this hotkey continuously or tap repeatedly (different between computers) while your computer is booting to edit your BIOS settings. (On HP Mini Netbooks, the correct key is usually F9.)
Select 'hard disk/USB-HDD0'
Note: with some motherboards you have to select 'hard disk/USB-HDD0' to choose the USB flash disk. It may work like this because the system sees the USB drive 'a mass storage device' as a hard disk drive, and it should be at the top of the boot order list.
So you need to edit the Boot Order. Depending on your computer, and how your USB key was formatted, you should see an entry for 'removable drive' or 'USB media'. Move this to the top of the list to make the computer attempt to boot from the USB device before booting from the hard disk.
Chainloading
PLoP Boot Manager
- For old computers that cannot boot from USB
Create Osx Boot Usb From Dmg
Flow chart for trouble-shooting
See this link: Why Doesn't a Bootable USB Boot
Make Linux Boot Usb
There are problems with the versions of the Startup Disk Creator alias usb-creator in versions of Ubuntu older than 16.04 LTS. There are similar problems with old versions of Unetbootin. Until these problems are solved other tools work, for example mkusb and Win32DiskImager described in the following links, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/mkusb and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Win32DiskImager/iso2usb
The version 0.3.2 (and newer versions) of the Startup Disk Creator alias usb-creator in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (and newer versions) clones the iso file and creates a read-only file system. This method is very robust, but if you want to re-use the USB stick as a storage drive, you must restore it. Two methods are described in the next paragraph.
'Postrequisites' - after installation: how to restore the USB stick to a standard storage drive. The standard is an MSDOS partition table (MBR) and a partition with the FAT32 file system.
gparted
Disks
mkusb
There is a detailed description at the sub-page /post |
FromUSBStickQuick for beginners starting from Windows
USB Installation Media: custom, manual, older versions, and technical instructions and troubleshooting. There are also network installation options available.
Why Doesn't a Bootable USB Boot: flowchart and lists of possible causes to help troubleshooting
MinimalCD alias mini.iso
booting with grub2
booting with UEFI
Ubuntu Forums tutorial 'Howto make USB boot drives'
Ubuntu Forums tutorial 'Howto help USB boot drives'
Ubuntu Forums tutorial 'How to create an external USB bootable Linux hard drive (without dual-boot)'
Unetbootin for Linux, Windows, Mac OS X
Paul Sutton's Unetbootin how to
Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way (from Windows)
Pendrivelinux about Multisystem
Pendrivelinux about grub2
YUMI – Multiboot USB Creator
Choosing between Live USB and Full USB Installation
Try Ubuntu (Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu, ...) before installing it
LiveCD/Persistence
Dual Boot with Windows
Discussion about tools to create USB boot drives at the Ubuntu Forums 'http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2291946'
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