Here is how to boot from USB on Dell Venue Windows tablet. Read on and get the detailed steps. Closely follow them until you make it. Please let me know if meeting more problems. As you might know, due to the controversial secure boot, Windows 8 has got quite a lot of boot probelms, such as booting from CD/DVD, booting from USB drive, etc.::How to boot from USB on Dell Venue Windows 8 tablet?
Method 1: Hot Boot Method - Put your USB disk drive into the USB port on your Dell Venue Windows 8 tablet. On the Start screen or the Desktop, press Windows + C keyboard shortcut or swipe inwards from the right-side display edge.
Click or tap on Settings and then click or tap on Change PC settings. Click or touch on General tab.
Nov 8, 2018 - First, create a UEFI bootable USB flash drive that can boot and run the Windows 8.1 installer. Download or use an existing Windows 8.1 (x86-32 Bit) Install DVD ISO file. Download the 'Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool.' Place the USB key in one of the local system USB ports. Run the DVD tool as administrator.
Click or tap on Advanced Startup button. Choose Troubleshoot option. Select Advanced options. Select UEFI firmware settings. Click on Restart button after reading the instructions. Highlight Security tab using arrow keys on the keyboard.
(You need to connect a USB-port keyboard.) - Switch to Secure boot menu. Ensure that Secure boot support is “ Disabled.” - Highlight Save & Exit - Select Save changes and exit and hit Enter.
Select OK. Press and hold F2 key, which should bring back to the BIOS screen. Go to Save & Exit tab. Highlight “ UEFI: Drive Name” under Windows boot manager and hit Enter. Once you OK those above, you will be able to boot your Dell Venue from the USB drive you selected just now.
Method 2: Cool Boot Method Press Power button. (Now the tablet is powered off.) Next, press Volume Up button and hold it until you get the boot select menu. On the next screen, under UEFI options, use Volume Up/Down to choose the device you want to boot from or touch on it to make it selected. In my case, I am going to select my KingstonDataTraveler. Next, hit Enter. You now will be able to boot up from USB. Consequently, you will be able to run Ubuntu, Windows PE or Recovery drive on your Dell Venue Windows 8 tablet.
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I recently won a Dell Venu 10 Pro in a hackathon and have been to install any sort of Linux distribution onto it. Apparently, these tablets have 64 bit processors, but they only have the capability to boot 32 bit EFI images. This is creating a huge amount of problems, as virtually no Linux distribution supports 32 bit EFI loading. I would really like to install Fedora on this tablet, does anyone know of any way to be able to do this? The Fedora project page has stated that this is not supported, but I was hoping that someone somewhere has run into the same problem as I have and found a work around. I came close with finding a thread about how to create a 32 bit EFI image of Arch Linux, only to find that the commands needed to create it are legacy and don't translate well into Fedora (I've tried to live boot Arch linux to make the bootable USB, but I am not familiar with it and was not able to accomplish my task).