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    Booting from the disk or USB drive?

    Discussion in 'Gigabyte and Aorus' started by Shadow Cloud, Jun 9, 2014.

  1. Shadow Cloud

    Shadow Cloud Notebook Consultant

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    I received my P35G v2 and I noticed from the boot menu that the only boot option I have is for booting from the mSata drive, which has Windows 8.1 on it. Say I want to wipe my hard drive clean in the future through dban for selling my laptop. How would I go about this if I can't boot from any other than the drive with Windows 8.1?
     
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    shempmalone Notebook Consultant

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    You will want to create a UEFI bootable USB drive, and in the BIOS turn off Secure Boot and set the boot order with the USB stick first.
     
    shempmalone, Jun 10, 2014
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    Thanks. I'll have to keep that in mind for the future. So I guess it's not possible to boot from the disc like in the past?
     
    Shadow Cloud, Jun 11, 2014
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