Hello people . Ok the problem is my big brother pc crashed and he found out his hard drive crashed.
So my question is, can i install windows 10 iso on my 2nd internal hard drive ( which i backed up n formatted ) then
give it to my big bro and he install it on his pc and then install windows 10 directly from the hard drive ?
p.s. i tried creating bootable usb but it requires 8 gb . I only have 4 gb usb drive .
I was wondering whether you would like to consider the viability of buying a 8-GB USB device.
There may be a round about method.
Never tried it.
So it's trial and error.
A Windows 7 iso may be able to be installed on a 4 GB flash drive > installed > upgraded to Windows 10
Download Windows 7 Professional ISO 32-64bit Full Version [2019] - Softlay
The best option is to find a flash drive that you can format ( > or = 8 GB)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...load/windows10
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Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10
I actually had a 8 GB drive which i lost a long time ago. I also had a 16 GB usb which i gave to my little sister for her school work. She said she bought it home but we couldn't find it .
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I think i'll have to go with this option of installing windows 7 and then upgrading to windows 10. Thanks zbook and mike, mattew for the help .
That is not true at all. Depending on whether the target computer is UEFI or legacy BIOS. If the target computer is UEFI, then you create an 8 GB partition formatted as FAT32 at the end of a GPT partitioned HDD and copy the files and folders from the Windows 10 installation mounted ISO file to the partition.
If the target computer is legacy BIOS, then the HDD gets partitioned as MBR, with an 8 GB FAT32 partition at the end of it. The FAT32 partition needs to be marked as active. Then copy the files and folders from the Windows 10 installation mounted ISO file to it.
Then, in either case, install the HDD in the target computer and boot from it. Windows setup will boot, then select the custom install option, then select the rest of the unallocated space on the HDD to install to. The only downside to this is that you end up with a dual boot situation where after install you are presented with a boot menu that has two choices, Windows Setup and Windows. That can be overcome after the installation, though.
There also is a bit more complicated option where you set up the new hard drive with a system partition, and a boot partition. Then you dism to apply a Windows 10 image to the boot partition and the bcdboot command to write the boot files to the system partition. Then install the hard drive into the target computer and it will boot right into the OOBE setup screen.
You can also just do a regular install to the hard drive, then use Windows 10 audit mode to do updates, etc. Then as long as you use the sysprep generalize option to shut down the computer to restart in OOBE, you can then move the hard drive to the new computer and it should also then just boot right into OOBE.
Navy is correct, except for bios boot active ntfs partition is fine. In essence that is how many oem recovery partitions work.
The USB flash drive created by the Microsoft Media Creation Tool is FAT32 formatted. However, the HDD will normally get an NTFS formatted system partition on a legacy BIOS system - so either way will work :). Depends on if you want to start with more similarity to the USB flash drive to begin with, or if you want to start with a set more similar to what you get after the install.
On a legacy BIOS system, you could format the initial "system" partition as NTFS of about 12 GB in size, then you could extract a rescue ISO file to it, such as Kyhi's Rescue Drive. Then copy just the Windows ISO file itself to the same partition. Then boot the HDD into the rescue drive, mount the ISO file, and run setup that way. The advantage to that would be easy replacement of the ISO file when new versions of Windows 10 are available. That's actually very close to what I do on my computers, except my custom rescue partition is on a second drive permanently installed.
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