On Mon, 31 Mar 2025, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
I just realized your problem probably is getting the thing to boot off the stick in the first place. That's a chicken-and-egg problem because you have to boot from a stick so that the existing disk is not active in order to zap it
Ted, I changed the boot order but it's ignoring that.
If the turning off uefi boot does not work in bios then if it's running win10 and you can login to it, hold down shift and click restart that will get you into windows recovery and you might be able to select the boot stick from there.
It runs win11, apparently.
In worst case pull the disk, put it in a dock, and wipe it then reinsert it. Once the bios sees no bootable anything on the disk it will fall through to the next bootable thing, the usb stick.
This is a _very_ thin laptop with two small screws on the bottom. Much different from any portable I've worked on before. Closed, from table to top of the cover it's 1". I suspect the storage is on a chip, not an SSD and certainly not a HD. Thanks, Rich
