Win8 USB boot BIOs issues allowing boot

Hawke84

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Hi all,
I have an HP Elitebook 9470m for work with Windows 7 pro installed. I would like to be able to boot a personal copy of windows 8 from my external usb 3.0 drive (western digital elements)

so i followed this tutorial:
How to Run a Portable Version of Windows from a USB Drive

and got windows 8 on my drive ok. Issue is im having really problems getting the option to boot from the drive to come up in boot options. Basically only the notebook hard drive and PXE are an option UNLESS i go into BIOS and mess about with changing boot settings to and from legacy to UEFI (with / without CSM) eventually on turning on and off it will give me the option to boot to my drive but its really hit and miss. when i get the option all boots into win8 no problem.

any ideas to get this to work better? i dont really know the settings im changing and i know messing about too much in BIOs is bad!

my external drive has 2 partitions, 1 for win8 and 1 for my other files both are NTFS. the laptop came with an internal mSATA which is all formatted to NTFS even system reserved. I tried creating a partition of FAT32 for boot and that hasn't helped. same behaviour.

any help or pointers would be really much appreciated!

thanks
Hawke84
 
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My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 7 / win 8
No one got any ideas? ive even tried updating the Bios and still does the same. ive got it down to a fine art changing boot mode, reboot, boot from external. kinda a pain
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    win 7 / win 8
Isn't there a fast boot switch for BIOS in that machine, on mine (different computer ) is F12 during boot sequence with which I can choose BOOT device. If you leave first boot device in BIOS to be USB drive it should always attempt to BOOT from it but if it doesn't find it, it will go to next boot device and that should be your HDD. drawbacks are: it would take few extra seconds for BIOS to decide what to boot from or it might not boot if there is an USB memory present.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
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