How to Boot Up a Flash Drive
While computers are usually booted from devices such hard drives, floppy drives and optical drives, you can also use a flash drive as a bootable device. However, simply inserting a flash drive and restarting your computer will not boot it from the flash drive. In order to properly boot your computer from a flash drive, you must manually select it as the first boot device from the Boot Device Menu.
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Instructions
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Insert a flash drive into any USB port on your computer.
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Start your computer.
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Access the Device Boot Menu. To do so, press the F10 key as soon as the computer starts.
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Select the name of the flash drive by using the arrow keys on your keyboard.
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Press the Enter key to boot up your computer from the flash drive.
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