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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!

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  • Rufus created a EFI bootable image and contains the required EFI EFI drivers?
    – Ramhound
    Commented Feb 3, 2015 at 23:51

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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.

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    He used Rufus, though. Rufus also uses FAT32 when you chose to create a UEFI-bootable USB drive.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Jan 31, 2016 at 12:35
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I had the same issue with my Lenovo Yoga 900-13ISK. Here are the setup steps which I used to install Windows 10 from a USB stick in UEFI mode on my Lenovo Yoga:

USB Setup

  1. Download Windows 10 image (*.iso format)
  2. Install Rufus 2.14
  3. Create a bootable USB stick with Rufus, make sure to select GPT partition scheme for UEFI and FAT32 file system (it won't work with NTFS)

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Laptop Setup

  1. Press the "Novo" button on the Yoga laptop
  2. Select "BIOS Setup"
  3. Open "Security", "Secure Boot" and set it to "Disabled"
  4. Open "Boot", "Boot Mode" and set it to "UEFI"
  5. Open "Boot", "Fast Boot" and set it to "Disabled"
  6. Open "Boot", "USB Boot" and set it to "Enabled"
  7. Select "Exit", "Exit Saving Changes"

Now you should be able to select your bootable USB stick from the "Boot Menu". If you are done with the Windows setup, you should enable "Secure Boot" and "Fast Boot" (which were disabled just before the setup).

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  • This worked for me. God. Never seen such a messed up BIOS prerequisite to boot a system from USB. Lenovo should get their shi* fixed. Maybe in addition for anyone wondering: in my case the M2 SSD was broken and when it was insert the system would never boot from USB for some reason. Like UEFI was still trying to access M2 before continueing to boot from USB for some reason. With the M2 disk removed and the exact same procedure (select USB boot device and so on) it worked. Messed up Lenovo BIOS.
    – omni
    Commented Apr 15, 2018 at 10:38
  • Sadly this didn't work in my case. The usb created with Rufus is not bootable. I've managed to create a WinPE usb that is bootable and even created partitions and extracted an install.wim image to the disk and make it bootable, but that setup does not boot either... This Lenovo is a nightmare!
    – Jos
    Commented May 18, 2018 at 9:33
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There are multiple changes needed in UEFI setting, such as enabling "legacy" devices.

See "Yoga 11s - how to boot from USB in UEFI mode", http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Yoga-Flex-Laptops-and/Yoga-11s-how-to-boot-from-USB-in-UEFI-mode-tried-everything/td-p/1431073 and

"Yoga 2 11 - how to boot in Legacy Mode", https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Yoga-Flex-Laptops-and/Yoga-2-11-how-to-boot-in-Legacy-Mode/td-p/1462773

as well as Lenovo's directions for Windows 7 on a ThinkPad, but presumably similar: http://support.lenovo.com/en/documents/ht051844.

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