If your not able to boot using a usb flash drive or if bios options like secure boot and AHCI are missing or grayed out , then this video is for you. We will show you how to access them and view hidden bios menu options.
Saved me after 7 hours of trying different things to get my acer to see my nvme m.2 to install windows i found this, hit ctrl S changed that option and suddenly windows install could see the drive, thanks a ton! subbed and liked
I have an acer an515-42 when I tried ctrl+s the sata mode only had one option an every time I tried to boot up using usb it stays on the acer logo with the circle loading thing for a long time any fix you recommend? :((
I tried the control s and that worked but now I got to the part with the windows start up saying I have no drive to install windows. Does this mean that my internal drive is the issue?
hi, i am having the issue of not seeing my drive, and when i press control s, the only thing that pops up is VMD Controller. i cant seem to get anything to work, despite watching many videos, do you think you know what i can do? Thanks!
Thanks for the video! I've bought Acer Nitro 5 AN 515-57 laptop without OS, and no matter what I do bios doesn't detect bootable flash drive - there is only "Uefi Shell" option both in bios "boot" tab and boot menu. I have tried to disable Secure Boot, set Supervisor Password, enable Boot menu. I created a bootable flash drive using Media Creation Tool (Fat32 and NTFS) and using Windows ISO + Rufus. Nothing worked. Maybe it's because "Secure boot mode" in Bios in "Security" tab is set to "standart" mode (not "custom"), and I can't change it (it is gray). The option "erase all security boot settings" is also not available (gray). In some laptops you can activate SATA mode if you press Ctrl+S in the Main tab of Bios, but in my case it appears another option - "VMD Controller", which doesn't help. Please help me what should I do to make the flash drive visible in bios?
@@Ahtisham Try different drives to make a bootable drive. In my case it helped to make a bootable drive on ssd. Also make sure that your drive has GPT & fat32 format.
I have Acer Nitro 5 laptop And since long time I am encountering this default boot device missing or boot failed issue on startup I have tried all ways through RU-vid and acer discussions but nothing is helpful my laptop shows this everytime I on it but after many attempts like 20-30 bios settings changes like enabling disabling couple of things couple of time the laptop starts sometimes but after I shut it down after work this happens again when I open it again and it's been many months this is happening please sometime help me it would be real help. Also I have tried lots of bios settings, I don't have legacy option, i have changed sata many time and I don't see hdd anytime in the UEFI mode, tried disabling the UEFI also by changing passwords, also. Tried F10 before acer logo and reset of the PC as well but nothing is working. I have tried opening laptop and checking the hdd proper connection and battery unplug and replug. Here are pictures of what my bios look like but this is default I have played with these n number of times Please someone help me.
@@joshuawilson2386 I had to put the drive in another PC and make a new partition table. Open disk management and delete all partitions, then reformat as NTFS. That was literally the only way I could get it to boot. Kind of stupid and roundabout on Acer's part.