I just bought a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro14IHU5 O with preinstalled Windows 11 Home. I want to boot a different operating system from a USB drive but it just does not work. When I go to the boot menu (with F12 on startup), the USB stick is not detected.
When I go through the advanced startup menu via the Windows recovery tool, it says at some point "System doesn't have a USB boot option".
Typically it should start by itself once the USB stick is inserted during booting, but it doesn't. What can I do?
What I tried:
- different installations of the boot USB
- disable secure boot in the BIOS/UEFI
- try to activate legacy mode (doesn't exist)
- make sure that "boot from USB" is enabled in the BIOS/UEFI
- disable Intel Secure mode in BIOS (or however it is called) This basically meant I can not start the drive without entering the 48 digit recovery key which is a bit of a pain. It also doesn't allow me to boot from USB.
