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How do I install Windows 8 with a USB recovery disk?
We received a Toshiba Satellite (S955-5378) with a catastrophic hard drive failure. The customer had no recovery disk so we ordered one from Toshiba. It came as a USB stick.
We could not boot from the USB stick even after changing the boot order. So I turned off the "Safe Boot" feature and changed UEFI to CSM. Now it booted to the Windows 8 installation envrironment. Next a a dialog box appeared to announce the Windows 8 can only be installed in a PC with UEFI enabled.
I tried to see if you could have UEFI with Safe Boot turned off, but alas, no. I'm thinking I should take an image of the USB stick and burn it to a DVD. Maybe it will boot to a DVD with Safe Boot, etc. enabled.
Any ideas? (And don't you just love everything about Window 8?)
We could not boot from the USB stick even after changing the boot order. So I turned off the "Safe Boot" feature and changed UEFI to CSM. Now it booted to the Windows 8 installation envrironment. Next a a dialog box appeared to announce the Windows 8 can only be installed in a PC with UEFI enabled.
I tried to see if you could have UEFI with Safe Boot turned off, but alas, no. I'm thinking I should take an image of the USB stick and burn it to a DVD. Maybe it will boot to a DVD with Safe Boot, etc. enabled.
Any ideas? (And don't you just love everything about Window 8?)
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Nothing worked. We made Toshiba send us Windows 8 on a DVD. I'm awarding points to the link to a lesson on the subject.
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