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The problem is, in UEFI boot mode, the USB drive does not show.......it only shows in CSM boot mode..........
The problem is, in UEFI boot mode, the USB drive does not show.......it only shows in CSM boot mode..........
CSM (Compatible System Mode) is normally to install Win 7
Try to disable Secure Boot but leave as UEFI mode.
What are the specs of the Toshiba Laptop no. 3?
Is the USB flash drive formatted as NTFS or FAT32? It should have 1 partition on it and it should be FAT32.
To find what Navy suggest::
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
list disk (it will list all drives. Identify the USB drive number)
select disk n (replace n by the USB drive number obtained with list disk)
list part (is there more than one partition?)
select part 1
detail part (is it ntfs or Fat32?)
exit
Last edited by Megahertz; 13 May 2023 at 15:54.
Just checked the flash drive.......it is in FAT32 format.......
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Well, it MUST be the flash drive that is at fault, although strangely it shows on the BIOS of the other three Toshiba Satellite's......currently installing W 10 on laptop No. three, using a different flash drive, and all is going well.....Thanks to all who replied......another learning curve !!......EDIT......Just two final questions, is it possible that W10 32bit will run better on older hardware, than 64bit ?.......and also, can you delete partitions on your drive AFTER installing W10 ?.......
Last edited by Del 80; 14 May 2023 at 04:09.
I install Win 32 bits only if the computer has 4G or less memory and use internal graphics.
If it has more than 4G you have to use 64bits to use the memory that exceed 3.2G.
A Win 10 installed as has UEFI-GPT has the following partitions:
- EFI - Fat32 - 100M
- MSR - RAW - 16M
- C: - NTFS - large partition
- Recovery - NTFS ~650M (I've made mine 850M)
I don't recommend you delete any of them as they are linked to the OS.
Thank you......Number 3 has only 2GB of RAM, and is running 64bit......this has certainly been a learning curve !!