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Create a boot drive for Dell PC

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I am trying to create a boot flash drive for my Dell XPS 8940. I have tried both the simple and advanced versions using the Acronis Rescue Media Builder. I press F12 while the PC is booting up but when I get to the menu to tell the PC to boot to my flash drive, the name of the flash drive does not show up. Acronis help said when creating the boot drive to select Advanced and then select Linux based media but that didn't work. Does anyone have a detailed writeup on this topic?

Harley Collins

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I had a similar problem with a Dell notebook two weeks ago. With the USB stick attached, go into the BIOS/UEFI and add the USB stick to boot device list. Then reboot, press F12 and the USB stick should appear in the list. This worked for me using a USB 3 DVD drive.

Ian