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acer laptop can't boot from usb drive

i have an Acer latop. Need to reinstall windows. The only partition scheme listed is UEFI, no BIOS. I've used Rufus to make a bootable usb dirve with windows 8.1. When i reboot it just boots me into the windows 8.1 thats installed on the laptop. Doed not boot off usb. I've pressed F12 after POST and the usb device does not list in the boot manager. I've also tried to create a usb bootable device with ubuntu 64 bit and still will not boot off of it. Any ideas?
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Never got into UEFI, but somewhere you have to have a boot order, and enable USB legacy so you can make USB first boot device.
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Use the laptop's recovery partition to reinstall the OS / put it back into the factory delivered state. Check it's manual for details on how that is done on that laptop, or check Acer's website for instructions.

If there is no recovery partition, first turn secureboot off in the BIOS, and then check it's boot-order settings. Besides that, the USB stick must use FAT as format, not NTFS.
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Secure boot is disabled
Tried acer laptop system recover the left alt + f10 did not do anything
my bootable usb drive was configured as fat32 with unbuntu
still does not boot from the usb drive
If you create a bootable USB stick using Media Creation Tool, will it boot?
If I remember properly, you had to enable something like D2D in the BIOS of acer laptops in order to enable the factory restore.

How did you create the USB stick?
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i tried D2D enabled/disable and still wont boot
i used rufus to create the bootable usb drive
i tried to create one with both win8.1 64 and ubuntu 64
I have been using WinSetupFromUSB to create bootable USB sticks. It works best.

Have you tried booting the stick on another PC?
Will it boot of you create the USB with Micorosoft tool???
i guess you need to disable secure boot int he UEFI bios :
https://itsfoss.com/disable-uefi-secure-boot-in-windows-8/
Have you tried another USB (Other type / brand)
I have had the same issue with a few USB sticks. (old and new | do work on other hardware)
Using another solved my problem.
I would also like an answer to my question. Till now ignored.
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