No Option On Start Up

[potionseller1]

I cannot for the life of me get this working -- maybe I need super noob instructions, since the regular noob ones aren't doing it for me.

I have the USB formatted with WinDIskWriter and everything worked fine -- said image writing was successful.

When I go to boot my MacBook - there just isn't an option to boot anything but the base OS. I'm running a Macbook Pro, M3, Sonoma 14.1

I went and checked to make sure my USB is discoverable as external, and it is. Went into Start-Up Security and changed everything to low just in case that worked -- it did not.

How do I boot this thing?? lol

[TechUnRestricted]

You can't run Windows on Apple silicon as a standalone OS. You need an Intel / AMD computer for it.

Your options are limited to a virtual machine (e.g. Parallels).