Create Bootable USB Flash Drive to Install Windows 10  

f14tomcat said:

ok, was not aware all this was testing and the thumb was intended for multi-purpose.

I've never considered using a bootable flash drive as multi-purpose.

Matthew Wai said:

I might install Linux on it later.

Yup! I've used Rufus to create bootable Linux SD cards.

Hmmmm, wonder if that would work with Rufus and the ISO for Windows 10?

Matthew Wai said:

http://www.ebay.com/cln/tnimitz0/counterfeit-hp-fake-capacity-usb-flash-drives/167558126015

Matthew Wai said:

I have no bucks to buy one.

Yeh, that's gonna be my condition what with all the medical bills for Hubby. Good thing I have what I need now . . .

Matthew Wai said:

I have two bootable USB drives containing personal files.

So, you're using the USB drives kind of like I use my External drives.

I almost forgot:

New RUFUS beta: 2018-09-04 12:35 1.0M Rufus 3.2 BETA (PLEASE REPORT ANY ISSUE AND REMEMBER: THIS IS NOT A RELEASE)

Version 3.2 (2018.09.??)
Add RSA-2048 signature validation on all the server downloads
Add "Fast zeroing" cheat mode (courtesy of René van der Zee)
Add support for XP/Server 2003 x64 ISOs (courtesy of Mattiwatti)
Improve ISO extraction performance by preallocating files (courtesy of Mattiwatti)
Improve bad blocks check algorithm (from suggestions by AL.Skywalker)
Fix progress not being displayed for Sylinux or GRUB downloads
Fix application close when cancelling an image scan

Stable version: RUFUS 3.1 Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way

Version 3.1 (2018.06.19)
Fix extraction of ISO content for GRUB based ISOs (Manjaro, Kaspersky, etc.)
Fix text being truncated on some dialogs (mostly Russian and Thai)
Add detection & warning about the 'Controlled Folder Access' Windows 10 feature
Improve retry attempts for transient errors
Increase size of the ESP to 300MB, for Windows To Go drives partitioned as GPT
Update GRUB 2.0 and Grub4DOS to latest
Update libcdio to latest

KabyBlue said:

@Brink -- I have a quick off topic question....

Not to resurrect a thread from the past...But if one wanted to create a Win7 ISO that was both UEFI + BIOS bootable, can we follow the step 11 of this thread you created but still have no issue installing Windows 7 on a PC with a BIOS firmware?

Meaning, does creating the bootx64.efi file prevent the install from working on a Win7 BIOS setup?

Hello @KabyBlue,

You should be able to install Windows 7 with or without UEFI using the USB from that method.

Mountain Mike said:

The CDROM worked but then I tried the bootable USB drive and it damaged it. I lost all the information and I couldn't even format it. I had to buy another drive!

Hello Mike,

I'm not sure what you are referring to from the tutorial. Could you provide more details?