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7/11/2025, 1:45:44 AM
>Got an "official" copy of Windows 11 Pro free in a bundle
>Comes with a thumb drive with all the stuff required and an activation key
>Instructions are simple: Stick the thumb drive in, configure it to boot from the drive, follow on-screen instructions
>Got an MSI X870E Motherboard, runs MSI Click Bios X, specifically this chrome version (most of the tutorials online are dark red)
>Absolutely will not detect the thumb drive no matter what I do
>Change the slot being used to one directly connected to the motherboard
>Nothing
>Go to 'boot order' to see if I can select a thumb drive that appears there, as they magically appear in the tutorials
>lol not there
>Change the boot order so that it prioritizes USB keys first (as suggested by online tutorials)
>Nothing
>Enable the MSI driver utility installer and fTPM 2.0, as suggested by online tutorials
>Nothing
>Mash "f11" on the boot screen to open up a menu that will manually select a boot device
>Only 1 option, 'enter setup'
>lol back to the bios you go
>Clearly not an issue with a bad connector in the motherboard since it can see my USB mouse & keyboard just fine
>Not an issue with the USB drive since my other computer reads it just fine
>Bios is likely up to date, last update was June 25th
>Eventually give up using the included thumb drive & decide to just make my own W11 boot stick using 1 of my own USB sticks
>Follow the tutorials I see online, FULLY format the drive, download the media creation tool, run it & install it all on the drive, put it in the new drive, start it up and mash f11 so that I could select it manually
>Might not be the "pro" version, but would be way easier to install after the fact
>nothing
>Look it up, apparently boot drives should be formatted as fat32, not NTFS. Not what the tutorial said, but oh well, time to format my drive and start all over again
>Nothing
>Only other thing I can think of is that the BIOS's boot mode is UEFI but lel no way to change it, greyed out
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
>Comes with a thumb drive with all the stuff required and an activation key
>Instructions are simple: Stick the thumb drive in, configure it to boot from the drive, follow on-screen instructions
>Got an MSI X870E Motherboard, runs MSI Click Bios X, specifically this chrome version (most of the tutorials online are dark red)
>Absolutely will not detect the thumb drive no matter what I do
>Change the slot being used to one directly connected to the motherboard
>Nothing
>Go to 'boot order' to see if I can select a thumb drive that appears there, as they magically appear in the tutorials
>lol not there
>Change the boot order so that it prioritizes USB keys first (as suggested by online tutorials)
>Nothing
>Enable the MSI driver utility installer and fTPM 2.0, as suggested by online tutorials
>Nothing
>Mash "f11" on the boot screen to open up a menu that will manually select a boot device
>Only 1 option, 'enter setup'
>lol back to the bios you go
>Clearly not an issue with a bad connector in the motherboard since it can see my USB mouse & keyboard just fine
>Not an issue with the USB drive since my other computer reads it just fine
>Bios is likely up to date, last update was June 25th
>Eventually give up using the included thumb drive & decide to just make my own W11 boot stick using 1 of my own USB sticks
>Follow the tutorials I see online, FULLY format the drive, download the media creation tool, run it & install it all on the drive, put it in the new drive, start it up and mash f11 so that I could select it manually
>Might not be the "pro" version, but would be way easier to install after the fact
>nothing
>Look it up, apparently boot drives should be formatted as fat32, not NTFS. Not what the tutorial said, but oh well, time to format my drive and start all over again
>Nothing
>Only other thing I can think of is that the BIOS's boot mode is UEFI but lel no way to change it, greyed out
WHAT AM I DOING WRONG
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