Been out of the PC support game for a while. So, please forgive my ignorance.
My family has a couple of relatively modern PCs (a Dell XPS 8940 Desktop and Dell Inspiron 14-7425 Laptop). I want to boot each of them from a USB drive to do a clean install of Windows 11. In each case, I have completely failed at doing this. I have used the Windows Media Creation Tool to build USB installation drives, which work just fine on other computers. However, the two Dell machines will not boot from these drives. I press F12 to get into the boot menu, select the appropriate USB drive, and then the system never boots.
These machines have UEFI, which are different from the BIOS that I had supported in the past. I am guessing that I have some UEFI settings wrong, and I have tried changing every setting that I can think of. Yet, I am still unable to boot from USB drives on either of these machines. I appreciate any insights that you might have.
My family has a couple of relatively modern PCs (a Dell XPS 8940 Desktop and Dell Inspiron 14-7425 Laptop). I want to boot each of them from a USB drive to do a clean install of Windows 11. In each case, I have completely failed at doing this. I have used the Windows Media Creation Tool to build USB installation drives, which work just fine on other computers. However, the two Dell machines will not boot from these drives. I press F12 to get into the boot menu, select the appropriate USB drive, and then the system never boots.
These machines have UEFI, which are different from the BIOS that I had supported in the past. I am guessing that I have some UEFI settings wrong, and I have tried changing every setting that I can think of. Yet, I am still unable to boot from USB drives on either of these machines. I appreciate any insights that you might have.