I'm trying to install a copy of Windows 8 from a USB drive onto my cousin's Lenovo Y510p. The reason I'm doing it is because I installed a Samsung 840 Evo 256GB SSD into his Optical Drive slot. The only issue now is that the computers BIOS and Boot Options fail to even recognize the USB drive. I've tried two different ones, both failing. I've tried to create a bootable drive using Microsoft's own bootable USB tool for Windows installs, and I've also tried using rufus to make these USB drives bootable.
As a heads up, I've tried disabling Safe Boot but it did nothing at all. I'm rather annoyed at the fact that it is this hard to simply boot from a little USB drive.
How can I go about installing Windows 8 on the solid state drive? I'd prefer not putting it in another machine in order to do so.
As a heads up, I've tried disabling Safe Boot but it did nothing at all. I'm rather annoyed at the fact that it is this hard to simply boot from a little USB drive.
How can I go about installing Windows 8 on the solid state drive? I'd prefer not putting it in another machine in order to do so.