Later I found if I turned off Secure Boot and enabled CSM (corporate stable mode) then I could boot as before.
Frankly I find UEFI to be over-reaching. Here's an article about it.
http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot
This effectively can remove the Personal from the PC and move it out of our control. You may want to rethink your choices here.
Bob
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My Motherboard is an Asus Striker Extreme II, CPU:Core 2 DUO 3.00 GHZ. 4GB Ram. Nvidia Video Card. Raptor 10K RPM Drive. 1TB Western Digital HD. Bluray RW. Floppy. Windows 8 Upgraded from Vista.
My bios doesn't have an option to boot from USB. Windows 8 Wont Allow me to boot from USB using (change pc setting, general, advanced startup). All this does is give me an option to reboot. I read there is an option to start from USB from the command prompt using the command "bcdedit" with it's parameters, but when I type this from the dos window in windows 8, either from the install disk or from within windows 8 I get unrecognized command.
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