Windows 10 bootable USB not detected in BIOS (Samsung Laptop)

[ivalexander13]

This is going to be a long and thorough post.

First of all, I have a Samsung NP530U3B-A02ID (laptop) purchased in around 2012. It came with 32-bit Windows 7 Home Premium but I wanted to upgrade it to Windows 10 by completely wiping everything off of it.

I downloaded a 32-bit Windows 10 ISO and made a bootable USB drive using Rufus (I tried with NTFS and FAT32, but only as MBR). The first time I booted the laptop on that USB, I got stuck in "Copying Windows Files" at 0%, which I found out by leaving it for ~6 hours and coming back to an error message. Then, I tried doing the same thing but after modifying the partitions on the Windows setup window, but the results were exactly the same.

I read online that I should delete and recreate the partition, and I was planning on doing that, but then the laptop gets stuck at "Press any key to boot from USB". I tried pressing keys and repeating the process several times to no avail. After that, I didn't do anything else but now comes the current situation: the USB isn't even detected in the BIOS and hence can't booted on (even though i have my USB drive at the topmost priority).

I have tried turning off/on Legacy OS stuff, but the problem persists.

Here are pictures to get a better view (with captions containing more information):
https://imgur.com/a/95hrY (the link to the pictures, if it doesn't show up on the post).

Sorry for the extra long post, but I have scoured a lot of forums and still cannot find any working solutions, so this is the last resort. Any help is seriously immensely appreciated!

P.S. Yes, I did try to turn it off and on again.

EDIT: Solved by my friend!

 

[marksavio]

have you tried going to your BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI? this will change your install for GPT with your new windows.
as for your usb getting stuck during install, most likely your USB drive is damaged. have you tried using a different usb drive.
did you make the windows usb uefi tool from the site below?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

 

[ivalexander13]

have you tried going to your BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI? this will change your install for GPT with your new windows.
as for your usb getting stuck during install, most likely your USB drive is damaged. have you tried using a different usb drive.
did you make the windows usb uefi tool from the site below?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

Thank you for the reply!

1. "have you tried going to your BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI?"

Yes, I just did, and nothing changed.

2. "USB drive is damaged"

I can boot and see the setup screen on my other desktop and laptop, so i dont think it is damaged.

3. "did you make the windows usb uefi tool from the site below?"

The ISO file i used was from a link in reddit's /r/piracy megathread (which i quite trust and people have probably tried and tested it). This is because the official media creation tool couldn't download the ISO file (about 23% in 10 hours with my perfectly fine internet, before suddenly quitting without any error message)

 

[nrgmaster]

have you tried going to your BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI? this will change your install for GPT with your new windows.
as for your usb getting stuck during install, most likely your USB drive is damaged. have you tried using a different usb drive.
did you make the windows usb uefi tool from the site below?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

Would you mind telling us how did you solve this situation? I have the same problem with a Samsung np350 laptop, thanks

 

[ivalexander13]

have you tried going to your BIOS and change the SATA mode to AHCI? this will change your install for GPT with your new windows.
as for your usb getting stuck during install, most likely your USB drive is damaged. have you tried using a different usb drive.
did you make the windows usb uefi tool from the site below?
https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/software-download/windows10

Would you mind telling us how did you solve this situation? I have the same problem with a Samsung np350 laptop, thanks

Hi, i’m a bit spotty on the details but i used my friend’s bootable drive (so completely different thumb drive with win10 he downloaded himself) and tinkered with the BIOS settings (tried turning stuff on and off until it works 😀). Goodluck!

 

[The Paladin]

probably needed to have fast boot turned off, and full USB on Boot in hardware setting.