Windows 10 bootable USB issue

Hello

I recently looked into hard-disk (or whatever it’s called) installing Kali Linux on my 2nd spare PC to mess around with, now the problem is, I cannot run the setup menu from the USB using Secure boot, since it blocks it, and using Legacy, it just tells me there’s nothing to read, it just hangs on a ‘PXE-2.1’ screen indefinitely, I’ve messed around with the boot order, but nothing changes, besides some of the options which removes all the text, and just displays the little line like you’re about to type something there.

On the ‘PXE-2.1’ screen, if I just boot into it without the USB already in my laptop, then it will say there’s no bootable disk, and ask me to plug one in, however, even after plugging it in, it still doesn’t read, and I know that my USB works perfectly, as when I use secure boot to boot to Windows, then it shows up and works just fine, as well as on my other PC, it works just fine.
When I began with this yesterday, I completely forgot that I had to mount the ISO do the USB, so I did that, and that’s where I’m stuck, as all the problems I listed are after mounting it.

EDIT: The USB is formatted as FAT32 if it’s important, also my PC is UEFI (pretty sure) might be BIOS & UEFI since I can press a key on boot and get into the BIOS/UEFI menu from there.

What procedure did you use to create your Windows install media?

What I mean is, did you use the Media Creation tool, diskpart, or Rufus etc to create your bootable install media. The thread title talks about Windows 10, but you mention Linux in your post? which is it your trying to install?

Ok, now we're on the same page. Secure boot has to be off for sure. The UEFI part I'm not sure about to be honest? I run Linux on my Raspberry Pi's and one desktop PC. None of them are UEFI though. I can't remember if it was Etcher or Win32diskimager I used for my desktop install of Raspbian. You may want to change the thread title as it leads one to believe your issue is with installing Windows 10.

To install Linux you want bootable Linux install media with the Distro you want to install. The only Linux PC install I've ever done was the x86 desktop version of Raspbian. That PC had Windows installed on it. I didn't have to really do anything, it wiped out Windows during the install all on its own. That was a non UEFI PC so I assume it was MBR.

One thing you can do is boot from Windows 10 install media, select custom install, then delete all the partitions so the whole drive is unallocated. The drive will be unpartitoned and unformatted. Then power down without going any further. Then boot from your Linux install media and let it partition and format the drive how it wants.