I am very new to bricking so when i learned i could install windows on my chromebook 11e g6 i did it right away. i installed the firmware and had the bootable usb drive but when i came to bootloader it said could not boot because of x64 operating system. (Also, i tried Linux versions like ubuntu and Debian but they had the same issue.) i came out an article on how to fix my Chromebook but i had to take out my write protection screw? I had one of those chromebooks where the battery is associated with right protection so when i removed the battery and plugged up the chromebook it would not turn on at all. can someone help me because i need it back asap and at this point i just want chrome os back.)
your device boots, it’s not bricked.
you can’t boot from USB because you haven’t created the install media correctly - do that and you will have no problem. See the docs here. You need to boot a USB regardless if you want to install Linux/Windows, or just go back to ChromeOS
I don’t understand why people come here and say “I read an article somewhere” or “I was following a YT video” but don’t bother to read the docs here first.
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I already created a bootable usb drive using rufus, but the problem is still there. I even tried Ventoy but same problem. and for some reason when I even formatted the usb to nfts and exfat and still didn’t work. I even tested my usb drive on my pc and there is nothing wrong with it. I already know how to install an iso
Please give detailed information of what you have done so far, also plz name your correct hardware according to this list
Give the exact error message, or better yet, post a picture or a series of pictures depicting what is going on on your screen. Without further information there is no way that anyone can give you exact advice.
when i turn it on i got to the boot menu then i click on my usb stick thats connected but it displays this message saying
“secure boot status disabled
Booting from 'USB: Pny USB 2.0 FD ’ failed: verify it contains a 64 bit UEFI OS.
press any key to continue booting.”
I tried to turn on secure boot but it wont let me change it
According to the information that i have to work with here, there is something wrong with your USB-Drive.
It does not detect a bootable UEFI-OS, thats why it asks you to verify it contains a 64 BIT UEFI OS.
There is nothing wrong with the drive. I even recently used another drive that was 16 gigabytes, but the same issue occurred. if it does not work then why did it work before I installed the firmware.
I tired finding this issue online, but it suggested to press esc when booting. didn’t fix the problem
I also don’t think there is something wrong with the drive. It’s most likely something wrong with the way you prepared it. But since you don’t want to tell us what you did exactly to prepare the drive, there is no way to know.
Using Rufus gives many options to create a drive that might be bootable on one machine, but not the other, so, “i used rufus to create the drive” is not really helping anyone. What OS-iso, what version, what settings, etc…
i used the windows 10 32x iso file first using rufus. I skipped tpm check and that’s about all. when that didn’t work, I used windows media creation tool and used a 32x iso to install and write onto the drive.
So, theres your problem.
Only 64 Bit OS´es are supported
Try an 64Bit iso then.
Debian12 with KDE for example:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/debian-live-12.6.0-amd64-kde.iso
And if you use rufus to create the drive, use DD-Mode for Linux OS´es
thankyou alot. btw does it work with windows 10 as well?
Dude… RTFM!
As Mr. Chromebox has already suggested two days ago:
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