Win 10 install on an external cd drive


  1. Jojog
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    Zorin Linux 17
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    Win 10 install on an external cd drive


    Hi !
    I'm 90 and this is the first forum I've joined in over 40 years of putting together ( for myself ,wife ,4 children and a number of my 15 grandchildren and variety of friends .) desktop PC s . I've bought and used every version of windows since the days of 3.1 ( on floppies ) ,and a goodly number of Linux distros . I recently bought my first commercial PC , a Geekom Mini PC A7 , a truly marvellous miniature creation . It came with an AMD Ryzen 9 Cpu/grahics combo , 2 TB SSD and 32 Gb of DVD5 Ram and Windows 11 Pro already installed . The SSd , however was incredibly slow . So I wiped it , removed it and replaced it with a decent Samsung SSD - and that's where it all went wrong . The recovery disk I'd made on a flashdrive , inevitably , refused to install on the new SSd ,so I dug out my copy of WIndows 10 on DVD and tried to load that from an external DVD drive . The installation started , took me to the various details , up to the screen where the instalation disk is chosen . It refused to install throwing up the error message that Windows 10 " cannot be installed " from a usb DVD drive . Does anyone know why ? Help!
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  3. SIW2
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    It says on this video - download the media from Geekom website. and use a usb stick. There is a link to an iso in the description but not the exact same machine so I dont know if that is any use.

    Tutorial - How to install Windows 10 Pro on Geekom Mini IT8 GM08i5T 8GB RAM 256GB ROM Mini PC - YouTube
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  4. joeandmarg0
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    Does the bios allow usb booting ?
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  6. Megahertz
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    Windows can be installed in two ways: Legacy-MBR or UEFI-GPT
    To install as Legacy-MBR you must boot the installation drive as Legacy
    To install as UEFI-GPT you must boot the installation drive as UEFI.

    The error message that Windows 10 " cannot be installed " is typical when you boot boot the installation drive as Legacy and the target drive is GPT or you boot the installation drive as UEFI and the the target drive is MBR

    I suggest you build the USB Win 10 22h2 installation drive using MCT so it can boot as Legacy or UEFI.

    As you have a UEFI BIOS, you should install as UEFI-GPT


    During POST, press F12(?) to launch the boot menu. You will see two options for the USB drive. USB UEFI (Name) and USB (Name). Select USB UEFI (Name) to install as UEFI-GPT.
    Go to install and delete ALL partitions on the main drive till you have one and only one unallocated space and then proceed.
    If you don't want to use MS account, don't enable updates or connect to the internet during installation.
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