To begin booting from usb you must first establish it in your boot order from your basic input output system bios which you can reach from the post screen the first screen you.
Toshiba satellite c55 b5299 boot from usb.
At the boot menu screen use your arrow keys and select the dvd option or the usb flash option if you have the recovery media as a usb flash drive.
Since flash memory became available in the form of usb storage devices laptops and pcs have begun to be produced with the availability to boot from usb peripherals.
After checking around online i downloaded the windows 10 iso file from the microsoft website and used rufus to create a bootable usb drive from a brand new sandisk dual usb 64g.
The recovery drive will be created automatically you need to wait for some time since it may take a long time.
To boot a toshiba satellite from usb you usually have to pull up a boot menu or change the bios.
The computer will boot from the selected device if it finds a bootable operating system otherwise it will search for a bootable device following the boot priority set in bios setup.
Click yes at the warning message screen.
Restart the computer repeatedly until it starts up once it boots keep pressing the toshiba satellite boot menu key to enter the bios.
Turn on the computer.
In theory you only have to hit f12 once but your timing has to be right.
When the toshiba logo appears press the f12 key on your keyboard.
Now unplug the usb drive and connect it to the unbootable toshiba computer.
Ide cd rom refers to the computer s internal cd rom drive built in selectbay or built in to a toshiba docking device.
When the creation process finishes click finish.
Either the dvd or the usb.
As instructed while booting up i used f10 to open the safe mode screen.
The easiest way to get it to boot from usb is to plug it in with the power off.
I disabled secure boot changed my boot settings from uefi to csm and changed the boot.