He already has the OS partition on the hard drive. He just needs to create a system partition on the hard drive to boot from. Then ocne booted into the hard drive, he could install the new SSD and...

My bet is that for the standard USB flash drive provided to general public, Microsoft will keep the standard active FAT32 partition by either compressing the wim file to esd or splitting the wim...

Let's put it this way.....I've had to help enough people on this forum because their USB flash drives created with Rufus would not boot in their computers that I don't recommend it for people with...

The biggest question is whether or not your laptop supports NVMe from the UEFI firmware (BIOS) or not. If your laptop does not support NVMe from the firmware, then any NVMe drive would require the...

I think you will like it. I've got a Dell Inspiron I5676 with a Ryzen 7 2700x CPU. It has an OEM 4GB RX 580 card in it and I've been about 90% happy with it playing a lot of Far Cry 5. My upgrade...

You might want to consider the AMD RYZEN 7 2700X or PRO 2700X. It got higher benchmark scores and uses less power. Here is one comment, that I wholeheartedly agree with:

"2700X is faster in...

No offense, Akeo, but the Microsoft Media Creation Tool creates an MBR partitioned USB flash drive with a FAT32 partition marked as active on it for a reason. That reason being is that it is...

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This document from Microsoft seems to indicate otherwise:

https://devicepartner.microsoft.com/en-us/assets/detail/Windows_10_Licensing_Guide-docx

"System Builder product may not be...

Yes, it will be activated.

Boot from a live linux DVD/USB flash drive. You can delete to your heart's content.

Microsoft disagrees with you regarding personal use.

And I'm sure that any website offering a "pre- activated" Windows 10 is not going to explain what "pre- activated" really means.

I'm just curious as to why someone with a valid and legitimate license for Windows 8.1/10 Pro would even want to use an illegal activation scheme for it?

1. Then you would just need to delete the C: drive partition.

2. You will get Windows 10 Pro because the product key for Windows 8.1 Pro is embedded in Bios.

"Pre-activated" is the term used to describe an illegal activation scheme with a local KMS server embedded in the Windows installation.

jk22, this is what you need to do. Let the Microsoft Media...

Probably need to do it in safe mode, or from a WINPE environment such as Kyhi's recovery tools:
Windows 10 Recovery Tools - Bootable Rescue Disk - Windows 10 Forums

Your F: drive is not a system partition. In a command prompt (admin) run:

diskpart
select disk 1
create part EFI size=100
format fs=fat32 quick
assign letter=t
exit
bcdboot F:\Windows /s t:...

Yes. UEFI is the option you want.

It's highly unlikely that the USB flash drive will boot in UEFI mode. Most computers will only boot in UEFI mode from a FAT32 partition. What is really strange is in the list of volumes, there is...

The bigger question is why did you use Rufus? We would have to see a screenshot of disk management, or other partition program to see what partitions on the USB flash drive Rufus created.

That...

Usually, yes. Especially if it is the same computer that the Windows 7 was originally installed on.



Yes, you would have to reinstall all the programs. Drivers are hit and miss, it depends on...

The reason why Windows MUST defrag an SSD is the same reason why it also MUST defrag an HDD:
"Actually Scott and Vadim are both wrong. Storage Optimizer will defrag an SSD once a month if volume...

We have to remember what we are walking about when we say EULA - End User License Agreement. When you purchase a fully packaged OEM System Builders edition of Windows 10 it comes with a DVD. When...

You can't boot from the hard drive because you don't have a system partition on it. The simple fix is to create a system partition on the hard drive to boot from.

I guess that is why Microsoft felt the need to clear up the "grey area" on their website:
Communication page | Windows system builder licensing for personal use

"If you are building a system for...