So it seems to me that, for some reason, 'this laptop will not boot a Ventoy drive in BIOS mode when it is an HDD disc', but it will boot from it if it's a stick, or an SDD, or UEFI, or any of these but on a different computer. Interestingly, using a 120GB SSD in this very same enclosure did work.Īnd the original HDD and enclosure on a different laptop worked too. Swapping HDDs, enclosures or any of the many bootable sticks I tried didn't make a difference either. One of these pendrives is MBR and the other one is GPT, so that doesn`t seem to make a difference. I have two crappy HP v165w bootable pendrives, and only when any of them is attached the Ventoy drive shows as available and I can boot from it. >Īfter many tests and reformats I've found that the only scenario in which I can boot an USB HDD in Legacy BIOS in this laptop is when I also have either one of two specific bootable pendrives attached. I am not too inclined to flash it to be honest.ĭeleting the UEFI partition didn't help, but more info on that in my next post. This is a Lenovo B40-70, BIOS 9DCN29WW v2.09. On the 320 GB drive I used the whole disc, but in recent tests with the 1 TB drive I told Ventoy to spare half of the total space. I only tried the MBR scheme, and I am letting Ventoy do it process. I also have a 500GB HDD booting to GRUB without issues. The intended HDD drive is an 320GB HDD, but the same happens on an 1 TB drive. I got a bunch of additional info but I will answer this first just for clarity' s sake. What is the system and what is it's age (mainboard and BIOS revision)?Īs an experiment, you could try deleting the second partition on the USB hard disk, just to see if an MBR boot option is then listed. (12-01-2020, 08:54 PM)Steve2926 Wrote: What is the size of the hard drive and how are the partitions arranged?ĭoes the disk have MBR partitions or GPT partitions? Is it the same problem if you use a normal USB stick with small capacity? My question then is if this situation where my drive is not listed on Legacy mode is to be expected or something is going wrong on my side. If I switch to UEFI mode the drive is listed and can boot ISO images from there, but only UEFI compatible ones, and that excludes ISOS such as boot-repair-disk and many other tools I normally use. and I was in Legacy mode both times I installed Ventoy on this HDD. This is how I always set up the system and have used many USB creator in the past.īIOS settings are correct regarding legacy mode active, boot order, etc. No problems there.īut when I boot in legacy BIOS mode the drive is not listed as an available boot drive. I installed Ventoy on an external HDD using the Linux script. I am just testing Ventoy and find myself in this situation, for now I just want to be sure this is something that should be working before wasting too much time in something ventoy is not designed to do.
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