Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10  

Brink said:

Please let us know how it went.

I purchased two Dane-elec 16GB USB today, and have downloaded Rufus 2.3.709.
Rufus will be testing it 4 times, and it is doing that now on the first USB.
if it is OK, with you I can post a ascii file of the logs also. more later.. cliff M.

acmanten said:

I purchased two Dane-elec 16GB USB today, and have downloaded Rufus 2.3.709.
Rufus will be testing it 4 times, and it is doing that now on the first USB.
if it is OK, with you I can post a ascii file of the logs also. more later.. cliff M.

I had to stop the usb new formatting and chacking by rufus last night but I started it agaain this morning and it will be finished for the first usb by the time I arrive home today... I will check it then, and this morning I told it to be bootable and also add the OSI file. tks Cliff M.

acmanten said:

I had to stop the usb new formatting and checking by rufus last night but I started it agaain this morning and it will be finished for the first usb by the time I arrive home today... I will check it then, and this morning I told it to be bootable and also add the OSI file. tks Cliff M.

I formated both the new USB and They worked just fine. the log file data from Rufus says they are ok.
thanks Cliff

I tried this, I gave fat32 fotmat to my usb, but when I try to create the bootable drive it says the ISO downloaded doesn't support it.

Either way I tried the suggested version, it runs, but once it is about to install it says i should format to fat32, I have partitions with info inside, am I suppose to format the whole drive?

Thanks

Hello, thanks for answering, actually, it seems the whole hard drive need a new format. I tried burning a DVD and the results were the same, but now I got an error message saying the hard drive is protected by GPT.

Searched around and it seems you can do some changes directly via command, but I don't know if it will only work on one partition or the whole drive. In the meantime I'm making a full backup of my other partitions... after that is done I might try that command line to change it or simply reformat the whole disk. Now it seems a bad idea to have a 1TB disk with multiple partitions and the system, next time I'll get a drive only for the system.

After windows 10 update from win 8, should I maintain those virtual drives with recovery info -no longer used, at least the guys at Dell told me- and extras? Dell support was awful this time, they gave me no solution, they even said I should buy Win 10 for a new license, which seems to be useless if you activated before with the same hardware.

Thank you!