I'm trying to boot off a thumb drive and for the life of me, its not working.
I get to PC settings, select recovery, advanced start up and reboot. I see the USB flash drive's light flickering, but it then just boots back into win8.1
I also tried from a power down condition where I held the volume down button, pressed the power button and released it once I saw the surface logo - same symptom.
I popped the USB drive into my MBP and it boots the installer right up (holding the option key to get the boot manager), so the drive itself is bootable.
I created the drive by downloading the ISO, then using Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to create a thumb drive from the ISO.
Any suggestions or insight on what's causing the issue?
The end result is I want windows 10 installation, but I don't want to mess with my main volume, so I shrank that, created another volume that I'll be installing windows 10 onto.
I get to PC settings, select recovery, advanced start up and reboot. I see the USB flash drive's light flickering, but it then just boots back into win8.1
I also tried from a power down condition where I held the volume down button, pressed the power button and released it once I saw the surface logo - same symptom.
I popped the USB drive into my MBP and it boots the installer right up (holding the option key to get the boot manager), so the drive itself is bootable.
I created the drive by downloading the ISO, then using Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool to create a thumb drive from the ISO.
Any suggestions or insight on what's causing the issue?
The end result is I want windows 10 installation, but I don't want to mess with my main volume, so I shrank that, created another volume that I'll be installing windows 10 onto.