Laptop does not boot from the USB stick?

I pulled up the dban iso file on my SanDisk 64GB UsbStick with the help of Rufus in order to delete the hard drive later.

If I set the boot to the SanDisk in the BIOS of my Asus Vivobook s14 and even delete the Windows boot from the boot sequence, the notebook still starts Windows and not from the USB stick.

What can I do to be able to boot dban from the USB stick?

There's a mode that MS presses on us. It's called "safe boot" or something like that. It means that the computer only boots from a stick that has been "approved" by MS, to put it casually.

This means that you only have to switch off this mode if you want to work with something that MS would NOT approve (such as Kali Linux or Tails and many more).

What is MS? Main system? The bios?

So if I want to boot from the USB stick, do I have to deactivate the Safe Boot mode in the BIOS?

I'll see if I can find the function and if it works.

The usual stumbling block: Fast and Secureboot are still active in the UEFI.
Please check and turn off.

Yes exactly.

However, you should be sure that the stick is really CLEAN. It is not just self-interest that protects MS. It also protects you from a stick with malware starting your computer.

I guess too.

Safe Boot is deactivated. But still nothing works. I once uploaded a video from my bios. Could you take a look?

Maybe there are still possibilities that I have overlooked.

Safe Boot is deactivated. But still nothing works. I once uploaded a video from my bios. Could you take a look at that

Maybe there are still possibilities that I have overlooked.

Where can I find the Fastboot option?

Fastboot was also disabled

Platform mode

and the menu to the left of security (again forgotten what it was called), there you could still click through the advanced settings.

Unfortunately, I'm not an expert on your bios.

I would try the stick again to see if it is Really bootable.

What I didn't see in your video was the boot sequence: What does this Intel boot manager do?

Platform Mode can't be clicked. Links from Security, so the boot settings? Which advanced settings?

And why Intel Boot Manager? Should I make a video of the boot sequence?

I have to manage to erase the hard drives somehow, no matter how. Because I actually wanted to send the laptop back today. I would also try other methods if they exist.

Would it help if I create a Windows boot stick, then boot it and then delete all partitions. Does it work? And is that just as efficient as with dban?

I do believe that it will work.

But I'm not sure. I only set up my system every few years, so I don't have the experience.

Do you have any other ideas?

Would it be useful to delete the partitions with a Windows boot stick and then try the DBAN stick again to delete the rest?

Well, it could of course be that your USB stick is not bootable at all. I can't judge that from here.

I don't know Rufus as a "burning program". I use the https://github.com/...-io/etcher for something like that. Maybe you should try it out with this program.