Windows 10 Will only boot with a USB drive inserted??? 2

[Randy_F]

I made some changes to my my bios to set it up for 3rd party imaging.... now Windows will not boot unless I have a USB drive inserted... Nothing on the drive ... just put one in and then windows says "To bot from USB press any key" then it boots just fine... not key pressed... any thoughts on y this is happening??

Thanks in Advance

 

[Beilstwh]

Go back into your BIOS and make the boot from your internal drive the first entry. If you still have a valid boot image on the drive it should boot up with no problem.

Bill
Lead Application Developer
New York State, USA

 

[sysfix]

Sounds like the usb drive has some windows system files on there such as the bootloader.
You can probably start the machine in safe mode with command prompt and attempt to move the system partition back to the original location.
This usually requires commands such as fixboot fixmbr and another which escapes me right now.


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[Randy_F]

Thanks Sysfix
Thats exactly what the problem was
All is working now
Thanks for your help

 

[Ferdinand Schultz]

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