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I've bought myself a new SSD for my secondary laptop (Toshiba Satellite A660-11M), due to a corrupted HDD.

After installing the SSD I've tried my bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive I always use but nothing happened. He discovers the Stick but the laptop is never able to boot it. I've tried 3 different USB flash drives and 4 different Windows ISOs. Also I used also Rufus and the Windows media creation tool.

My BIOS Settings don't show the Option for "secure boot" or a switch between UEFI and LEGACY. They just don't exist and even setting a Supervisor password didn't change anything. (Also I'm not able to update the BIOS due to a missing battery).

The really strange part is, that he also doesn't recognize any Windows 10 DVD. I could give that machine whatever I want and he won't boot anything.

Also no Linux live distribution of any kind has worked yet.

I've made a Windows 10 installation on the same laptop on the old HDD not more than 4 weeks ago. Everything worked fine then.

So does anybody have an idea how I can install Windows on this laptop?

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  • What's the boot device priority? Maybe it's using the hard drive first, ignoring everything else. Is there a one-time boot menu (from pressing some button when booting)?
    – Xen2050
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 15:21
  • I can order the Boot order as i wish and he definitly tries to boot from the Stick or DVD but is never able to do so
    – Krachmann
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 16:39

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Your model is not supported on all Toshiba websites. I have managed to find it on Toshiba Ireland, where I found a BIOS update from February 2012. Check if this is newer than yours before installing.

A possible explanation for your being unable to boot is that your computer needs a UEFI boot USB/DVD.

You may use Rufus for creating it, and you may need Windows 64-bit ISO.

Note that you need to format the disk on the Toshiba with GPT partitioning for using UEFI.

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  • I've used Rufus (with the UEFI settings) and i also found the newest Bios version on the irish toshiba site. But this doesnt't change the fact, that i need a functional battery to start the Bios update.
    – Krachmann
    Commented Dec 19, 2018 at 16:37

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