New computers with UEFI have a diff way to boot to usb drive or disk. Go to Settings, Update and Security, Recovery, Select Advanced Startup. Computer will reboot and you can select booting to usb or disk and you also can select other options. I know-- just more complicated. F12 to get to boot menu was much easier.
No new systems have legacy mode -- it was phased out a while ago.
If the boot media was correctly prepared (preferably using the Microsoft Media creation tool), plug in the flash drive, press F12 a few times at powerup and it will appear in the boot menu (note: you must use the one-time boot to install Windows; you cannot enter the flash drive into the boot sequence in Setup).
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New computers with UEFI have a diff way to boot to usb drive or disk. Go to Settings, Update and Security, Recovery, Select Advanced Startup. Computer will reboot and you can select booting to usb or disk and you also can select other options. I know-- just more complicated. F12 to get to boot menu was much easier.
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No new systems have legacy mode -- it was phased out a while ago.
If the boot media was correctly prepared (preferably using the Microsoft Media creation tool), plug in the flash drive, press F12 a few times at powerup and it will appear in the boot menu (note: you must use the one-time boot to install Windows; you cannot enter the flash drive into the boot sequence in Setup).
Then do your install.