Now I’ll show you the procedure in detail to easily create a USB drive so that you can boot from it and install Windows 10 onto any machine. Using a bootable USB drive will reduce the time it takes to install Windows, and it is one of the best options when choosing storage media.īesides, getting your hands on a DVD drive or disk is becoming more difficult. We no longer have to rely on a CD or DVD to contain installation files. It will prepare the USB drive for the FAT32 file system and do everything required to make it bootable and ready to use for running the setup for Windows 10. To put Windows 10 onto a USB drive, download and run Microsoft’s Media Creation tool to prepare the USB drive properly.
GPT is GUID Partition Table (replacement for MBR). UEFI is Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (a recent replacement for the BIOS). When you boot from the USB drive, you can format or delete drive partitions, partway through the install process.īIOS is Basic I/O System. You can also do it from the Media Creation Tool, at the cost of another 3GB download. It shows up as a drive, and you can copy all of its contents to the thumb drive. (It's easy for the FAT32 version, which is what a UEFI motherboard requires anyway.) Once you've prepared the drive, you can mount the. I've done it by creating a bootable thumb drive using diskpart. I haven't used any of the third party utilities (Rufus). Thanks for your replyI'm a little confused by what you post.ĭo you want a bootable USB thumb drive with the Windows 10 installer on it? I want to be able to format my disks and install clean without any help from the OS. What is BIOS/MBR? I have the windows 10 iso image I just can figure out how to create a bootable USB drive so I can mount and install the image. I have installed Windows 10 Pro from 8.1 pro. What OS was originally on the computer? If it came with Windows 8/8.1 then it's UEFI/GPT setup and Rufus will allow you to create the flash drive for that. Were you in the Insider program? If so and if you are at build 10240 then you can do a Clean Install. What OS is currently on the computer? Your specs say Win 10 Pro. Once you have activated then you can do a clean install. Laguna Beach, CA John, to get the free copy of Windows 10 you must upgrade a qualifying Windows 7 or 8.1 system. I have searched and searched online but can't seem to find a solution.
I want to be able to install a clean copy of Window 10. I want to be able to do a clean install of Windows 10. I have created a recovery USB drive but it doesn't allow me to access the image just the advanced options. I have been trying to create a USB installation drive.
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