

I can get a computer to boot up the Yumi boot menu in UEFI, but no matter what I do, I cannot get the Windows installer to boot on any computer I have, Dell or Intel. I have turned off secure boot, I have tried editing the UEFI boot menu.

I have tried installing the OS onto a different Dell computer and transferring the drive back. I have tried creating disk using Rufus, Yumi, Yumi-UEFI, Unetbootin, Windows 10 Media creation tool, Windows 11 Media creation tool, and manually formatting and copying files to both Fat32 and NTFS formatted usb drives. I have an Intel NUC 11 with no legacy boot option. Ventoy will now boot, install your chosen OS and once install is complete you may chose to re-enable secure boot, the simplest way is to load factory defaults (If you have a SATA based SSD make sure to change from RST to AHCI or if your booting Linux) or alternatively re-assign a password to the BIOS, enable secure boot and remove the password again.I have been working on this for a week now with no success. Now you have no password set on the BIOS and secure boot is disabled. Then go back to the boot tab and now you can disable secure boot, once disabled go back to security and change the password you set, first confirm the password and when asked to type a new one leave it blank and press enter and on confirmation. You may find secure boot in unable to be selected, and if this is the case go to Security tab in BIOS and under secure boot password (May be called something else like BIOS Password) and assign a 4 digit passcode of your choice like 1234 (don't worry you can remove it after) Next shut down your PC, press F2 (or other BIOS key) and go to the boot tab and disable secure boot. The best option is to go back into Ventoy.exe - Options - untick Secure Boot option and then click update on your chosen USB drive, this will remove the secure boot from the ventoy boot loader. There is a solution, however it requires temporarily disabling secure boot. Acer laptops seem to have a very strict BIOS when in comes to secure boot.
