Installing Ghost Spectre os

joeT44 · May 26, 2024

Hi Guys, I have watched several youtube videos on how to make a usb drive with Ghost Spectre 23H2. When I try to boot into the os, F11 is my boot from usb it just goes right into windows. I've tried a few other usb drives to no avail. I'm on Windows 10 Pro right now. 22H2 19045.2965. These are the files on my usb drive. Thank you, Joe

antspants · May 26, 2024

So the problem is more that you can’t start the Alt boot with f11 than it is with the USB itself? Can you use F11 to boot to any other USB? Like a Windows repair or install USB?

Try disable Fast Boot in the BIOS if it is enabled.

antspants · May 26, 2024

Can you not directly boot to a USB from within the MSI GE78HX 13VI BIOS?
I don’t have one but I can boot to a UEFI USB from within my ASUS BIOS

antspants · May 26, 2024

Check your BIOS in the MSI. See if this UEFI option is in the BIOS

STEP 1. Reboot your computer and hit Delete repeatedly to enter the BIOS setup.

Step 2. Navigate to the Boot tab in BIOS setup and select UEFI.

Step 3. After saving the settings, reboot and press "F11" repeatedly to enter the boot menu.

joeT44 · May 27, 2024

antspants said:
Check your BIOS in the MSI. See if this UEFI option is in the BIOS

STEP 1. Reboot your computer and hit Delete repeatedly to enter the BIOS setup.

Step 2. Navigate to the Boot tab in BIOS setup and select UEFI.

Step 3. After saving the settings, reboot and press "F11" repeatedly to enter the boot menu.

I disabled fast boot and the bios was in UEFI but it still won't boot from the usb drive. I've installed a few other custom OS and never had a problem. I also put the Ghost Spectre files on another usb drive but it won't boot.

antspants · May 27, 2024

Short of suggesting that you try to compare the contents with a list from somewhere (I couldn’t find one) or obtaining Ghost Spectre 23H2 from another source, I am out of ideas, sorry Joe. Someone else might have some idea.

antspants · May 27, 2024

Have you tried or is it even possible to create the USB using Rufus?
If the files aren’t already in the form of an ISO you will need to create one first

joeT44 · May 27, 2024

antspants said:
Have you tried or is it even possible to create the USB using Rufus?
If the files aren’t already in the form of an ISO you will need to create one first

I always use Rufus to create an iso file. I PM'ed another forum member who installed Ghost on his system successfuly; waiting to hear back from him. Btw thanks very much for your help and I appreciate it very much.

antspants · May 27, 2024

joeT44 said:
I always use Rufus to create an iso file. I PM'ed another forum member who installed Ghost on his system successfuly; waiting to hear back from him. Btw thanks very much for your help and I appreciate it very much.

Do you have a Windows 11 release (or ten) USB install disk you can check to see if the laptop will boot to?
I am also wondering if the EFI boot manager files on your Ghost USB are corrupt, that your laptop would bypass and boot to Windows.
And I am also wondering if the Bootmgr files and the bootmgr folder would be the same in a release ISO as they would be in the Ghost, that you could copy them over to rule out file corruption?

joeT44 · May 28, 2024

antspants said:
Do you have a Windows 11 release (or ten) USB install disk you can check to see if the laptop will boot to?
I am also wondering if the EFI boot manager files on your Ghost USB are corrupt, that your laptop would bypass and boot to Windows.
And I am also wondering if the Bootmgr files and the bootmgr folder would be the same in a release ISO as they would be in the Ghost, that you could copy them over to rule out file corruption?

I finally got the usb to boot to Ghost Spectre by disabling secure boot. Again I thank you for all you help!

antspants · May 28, 2024

joeT44 said:
I finally got the usb to boot to Ghost Spectre by disabling secure boot. Again I thank you for all you help!

I just looked at my replies, I said Fast Boot. I’m really sorry. I don’t know why I typed that because what I was reading clearly said Secure Boot & Fast Boot. I could of saved you a lot of time. My apologies.
However I am glad you got in, well done.

johnlgalt · May 29, 2024

antspants said:
I don’t know why I typed that because what I was reading clearly said Secure Boot & Fast Boot.

Uh, maybe because you were sending 3 replies within 8 minutes?

:lmao:

j/k bro - good job on finding the answer!

antspants · May 29, 2024

johnlgalt said:
Uh, maybe because you were sending 3 replies within 8 minutes?

j/k bro - good job on finding the answer!

Haha. Yeah, the thing is, I find that when I get new information in a period of time, many OP’s miss the edit. So I make a new post instead.

It’s a dilemma

andrew129260 · May 31, 2024

antspants said:
Haha. Yeah, the thing is, I find that when I get new information in a period of time, many OP’s miss the edit. So I make a new post instead.

It’s a dilemma

that happens to me all the time. I always edit and then hope people see the edits.

antspants · May 31, 2024

andrew129260 said:
that happens to me all the time. I always edit and then hope people see the edits.

It keeps me up at night

johnlgalt · May 31, 2024

If I see the OP in the thread lurking when I go to make an edit, I usually add something like

EDIT: Added the following

Before the new part(s).

Of course, tantamount to this is

If I see the OP in the thread lurking

Because if I don't see them lurking (as in I don't notice), then ... uh, it usually doesn't get put in.

Which makes me sad, really, as I used to always do that without fail at 10F and other forums in the past. Now it has gone from being mandatory in my mind to "only as needed",