5s usb boot

[Dog]

Well I got the usb stick properly formatted using rufus with windows 10 in fat32. I am assuming that the stick should be in GPT for UEFI right? Still have no idea how to get the tablet to boot from usb though. Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thx.

[John]

I had a similar problem when I tried to reset windows on my Epad Mini 3 – I had no choice but to do a fresh complete install of windows

Although I have the Ezpad Mini 3. This may also work on the 5S:

Connect a keyboard to the USB Port and your Windows Install USB to another spare USB port (on the Mini 3 there is only one USB port so I had to use a USB hub to connect multiple devices)

Press the power button and press ESC key on the Keyboard while booting (on the Mini 3 you can also get to this by pressing both the Power and Volume up buttons together continuously for several seconds) to take you to the special system menu. The Option you want to select is “Boot Manager” which will take you to the “Boot Option Menu”. If your USB is formatted correctly it should show up as something like “EFI USB Device (……)”.  Select this and you will be able to boot from your USB stick.

If the system has trouble recognising your USB stick try the USB 2.o port or the USB 3.0 port. Otherwise you may have to use Rufus to try a different formatting of the USB stick. Sometimes trying a different USB Stick works better.

I would recommend you install win10 x64 version as that is what was originally on the Tablet and the x64 Double Driver Backup and Touchscreen drivers are available for download from the Tech Tablet website.

Also note that someone else in the forum had a problem with reinstalling the Camera Driver for the Ezpad 5s from the Double Driver backup. They got it to work by disabling Windows driver signature verification:

How to Disable Driver Signature Verification on 64-Bit Windows 8.1 or 10 (So That You Can Install Unsigned Drivers)

Hope this helps

[Dog]

Thx for the reply. I have the keyboard that attaches to it. As soon as I can I will give it a go. Again thx.

[ahlidap]

Hi,

does this solution work?
Anyone know if it’s possible to USB Boot a Linux distro? (I know that might be problems such wifi, touch and sound.)

I’m thinking of buying this device (although I’m still divided between this and the Chuwi hi10)

[smarus]

On my Epad Mini 3: -enter in bios(hold power and volume up button), select “Administer secure boot” and enable “Erase all secure boot settings”, so I did. Make sure the “Secure boot database” is unlocked and “Secure boot status” is disabled Use program Rufus  and choose GPT partition scheme for UEFI to make boot usb stick from windows iso.

[ahlidap]

Hi, received my 5s today.
No need for all that stuff to boot from usb.

Simply put Linux distro on usb with ‘dd’ linux command.
Turn on tablet, hit ‘ESC’ key on keyboard which lead us to the bios screen.

Choose “Boot device” (or something like that) and then select the USB drive.

[X]

I cant seem to get into the bios on an EZpad 6. Are you all using wired keyboards or wireless (non bluetooth)? Everytime i see the logo, it starts loading windows.

 

[Sabrina Knight]

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