Unable to boot from a W10 USB

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My daughter brought me her laptop. She was trying to do a clean load of W10. She had been having a number of problems with the laptop on W7. She went into diskpart from a command prompt and cleaned the drive. I have inserted a USB with the W10 files, downloaded from MS. The Lenovo screen comes up. I then get an informational screen that ends with Exiting PXE rom. It then goes to a display of Boot Menu. If I select USB HDD: General USB Flash Drive, it simply goes blank and returns to the same display of Boot Menu. Help.
 
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Your download might be fine but simply needs Rufus to make the drive into a bootable disk. Your BIOS is telling us it couldn't find an operating system on any available drive.

Just to be certain, look at BIOS and ensure that the USB drive is present. If it doesn't show, look for a setting named USB Legacy Support. Make sure it's set to Enabled otherwise it has no electricity until the OS cuts in.
If you just copied files from the Net and pasted them to the USB drive, it wouldn't have made it bootable and that's why the system is looking for a network boot because no other option was available to it.

Use a programme called Rufus to combine the files you have from Microsoft on to the thumb drive and also make it a bootable disk.. That should do it but you will need a valid Windows 10 Product Key so maybe staying with 7 is a better idea.
 

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I paid for a key and downloaded the tool and files, etc. I chose the option for loading to another computer, as I had already installed W10 on my laptop. So I would think that my USB is correct, but possibly not... Maybe I should download again?
 
Your download might be fine but simply needs Rufus to make the drive into a bootable disk. Your BIOS is telling us it couldn't find an operating system on any available drive.

Just to be certain, look at BIOS and ensure that the USB drive is present. If it doesn't show, look for a setting named USB Legacy Support. Make sure it's set to Enabled otherwise it has no electricity until the OS cuts in.
 
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