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I can't boot to external drive

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I have a Acer One 10 tablet. I have been doing backups for a while with the expectation that I would be able to restore those backups if needed. I can't. If I try to recover them from within the OS like they were created it wants to reboot, and when it does it just boots back up into windows. I have tried creating the USB boot stick, and set the bios to boot from USB Flash drive, it ignores it and boots to Windows. I cloned the Flash drive to a portable USB drive and set bios to boot from USB Hard Drive first, it still ignores it and boots to Windows. I turned off secure boot, still no luck... Looks like all the time I spent setting up the tablet and doing backups at every stage of setting it up was wasted...

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Try to create a bootable flash drive using a tool like Rufus

https://rufus.akeo.ie/

 

This will allow you to boot directly into the ISO of the recovery CD that you can download from Acronis.com