Asus X512DA boot failure

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  1. Louisdo

    Louisdo

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    Hi All,
    This is my first post, so be gentle :).
    My wife has a 3 year old Asus Vivo book that started having random boot failures about 12 months ago. It would be OK for a couple of weeks, then sometimes boot straight into the bios. Recently, it had started becoming more frequent. We used to sort of get round it by enabling/disabling fast boot, then it eventually booted into the O/S. Finally, it gave up the ghost. The bios couldn't detect a bootable drive any more, and we were left with a brick. I assumed that the M.2 drive had failed. This week, I bought a new SSD, and did all of the initialisation/formatting etc. I updated the bios to the latest level and created a USB media creation drive. When I attempted to boot from the USB to start the installation, it went straight back to the bios. The bios can detect the USB as a bootable drive, and it can see the new M.2 drive. I have selected the USB as the 1st boot option, and also tried starting the laptop by first pressing the escape key, to boot from the USB. I have also disabled secure boot. Nothing seems to work. I am stuck.
    Any reasonable suggestions would be welcome.
     
    Louisdo, Feb 25, 2023
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    Hello, Louisdo!

    I have had similar issue with a windows bootable USB created with Microsoft's own media creation tool. The desktop just couldn't see it. So what I did was download the windows iso with the same tool on my hard drive, but created the bootable USB with Rufus and it worked.
     
    Invictus, Mar 25, 2023
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    Hi Invictus,
    Thanks for the advice. I managed to get it working, in the end, but I can't work out how . The annoying thing is I bought another laptop, thinking that this one was dead. So, now we have a spare.
     
    Louisdo, Mar 25, 2023
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