I have a Lenovo 11e Yoga laptop. I have installed a new, blank SSD in the system and now I want to reinstall Windows 8.1 (which is what the laptop came with).
I created a bootable USB stick using the latest version of Rufus, but when attempting to boot, and selecting the USB drive as the boot device, it simply goes back to the Boot Device Selection screen instantly.
I disabled "Secure Boot" in the UEFI bios, but still does the same thing.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Best Answer
I tried the following and it solved the issue!!
Please refer the answer here - https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Edge-Yoga-Flex-Laptops/Guide-Windows-8-1-PRO-RTM-clean-install-on-Yoga-13-from-a-USB/m-p/1233563/highlight/false#M9262
In order to boot from UEFI the flash drive must be formatted as FAT32. Windows USB and DVD tool supports only NTFS, So after creating the bootable image, copy all the files from the flash drive to the HDD then format the flash drive as FAT32 then copy the files back from the HDD to the flash drive. The flash drive will still be bootable.