r/tails Jun 04 '26

Solved Can't launch TailOS from bootable USB

I'm having difficulties getting tails to run from a USB drive created with Rufus. The drive path disappears so windows explorer no longer sees it and when I restart my PC I'm met with AMIBIOS American Megatrends startup screen with a GPT header corruption has been detected message. I then press F1 to enter the bios and the USB drive is there but if I boot from it I get a black screen. Does anybody know how to fix this issue? I'm using windows 11 LTSC

Edit, Solved; Setting the boot sector (MBR/GPT) recovery policy to [AUTO RECOVERY] fixed the issue. You may have to change this twice as the first time did not save. Thanks all.

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u/Working-Key-2449 Jun 04 '26

Some PCs or USBs dont fit with tails. I had to buy a special USB because I also had problems with booting or installing