Windows 10: Inserted USB stick on Suspend; burned out USB

I had a perfectly fine laptop in front of me. It fell asleep while I was doing something. Without thinking I inserted a usb stick and turned it back on. Touchpad gone. USB port gone.

The USB ports on the other side of the unit are working. One is 3.0, one is 2.0.

I tried booting to a windows install stick, and the touchpad is absent there as well. I tried turning off usb 3.0 in UEFI, no difference. I tried uninstalling the touchpad and the AMD USB controller and rebooting. I removed the battery and tried a power drain. Nothing.

This looks like a hardware issue. It looks like a simple mistake has fried one of the usb circuits on the MB?

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

how to burn and iso to usb stick Windows10

how to burn and iso to usb stick Windows10

 

Need help. want to create bootable win7 64bit iso with usb-stick (using 32bit xp)

Look, like i already wrote i think try to hit F8/F12 after POST (with your usb stick inserted), to have the boot devices list and select the usb stick!
Let know!