How to Set the Asus Eee to Boot from USB Flash Drive

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The Asus Eee PC is compact laptop which is best known for having longer battery life, being affordable, and its ability to handle most of the computing tasks easily. But there are multiple times whilst its use, when you are in need to change/upgrade the operating system, or simply restore the OS to default. Good thing is most of the computers are configured to boot from their own hard drives. But if you have the OS on a flash drive then you can also set the booting sequence is such a way that in place of booting from hard drive, the computer boots using the flash drive. So if you are the Asus Eee PC user and, are planning to change the operating system boot sequence to flash drive, then following steps can be useful to you. However, the best thing to do is avail the Asus support provided by the experts, as by doing so, you can get the task completed in the most effective way. But, if you like to try things by yourself then, simply follow the steps mentioned below.

•  First of all shutdown your Asus Eee PC, plug-in the flash drive that has the desired operating system, and then turn computer back on.

•      As soon as the Asus logo appears on the screen, press the key that will load the BIOS or setup screen on the monitor. In this case the key is F2.

•        Once you have the BIOS screen, use the arrow keys to navigate to the BOOT menu.

•   In the Boot sequence screen, simply change the sequence, so that the USB flash drive comes on the top of the list. You can do so by using the arrow keys to select the USB and then F6 key to list the flash drive to the top.

•  Next is saving all the changes and exiting from the BIOS configuration utility. You can do that by locating the Exit tab and then selecting the Exit option.

Once the steps are completed the changes will be saved, and the next time when you reboot the Asus Eee PC, it will have the flash drive as the primary boot device. So if you want to boot using the flash drive, simply reboot the system with the flash drive plugged into the computer. The computer will automatically boot from the USB device.      

However, if you are getting issues while setting the boot sequence or change other BIOS settings, then contacting the experts is the best option, because wrong alterations in the BIOS may affect the PC’s performance or simply make the PC inoperative.

Experts understand all the functionalities of the PC and have a deep knowledge of its working and know the correct ways of modifying them. Contacting them whenever needed assures that the issues will be resolved in the best way possible.

To sum up all, the Asus Eee PC is a decent computer that is simply suitable to carry most of the common computing tasks. Though it has its limitations and its production already ended in 2013, but many users around the globe still use the Asus Eee PC computers. The good thing is even the PC being so old and its production has already ended, many of the support companies still provide its support. Companies like SupportMart are the leading technical support providers for a wide range of Asus computers and also for other brands like HP printer support, Lenovo support, Toshiba support etc. Simply contact them when needed and avail the much required help.