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I use a quick way also. PowerISO. Select tools> Create Bootable USB Drive> and it asks which image to put on it. Browse for preview 10130 (the latest build).iso and then boot with your USB stick.
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@ Wynona see this at ZDWired Make Bootable USB Drive From Bootable ISO File
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If you're just running setup.exe from a running Windows install, your not booting from the thumb drive. That's why just copying the files to it works. If your in Windows 8 just mount the ISO and run setup.exe. You don't even need a thumb drive. Take that same thumb drive and try to make your computer boot from it and see what happens. Like you would do if you had a brand new blank hard drive with no OS on it and wanted to do a clean install.
I've clean installed Win10 about 30 times during testing using this method on my laptop in UEFI/GPT. Note it's a Win7 laptop and doesn't have secure & fast boot.
On my Win8.1 desktop I haven't tried it. Maybe like posted earlier it depends on the BIOS that one has. At least on older machines it works. What's that term I see so often here... YMMV:).
Also I have been able to use same USB for DISM source with no ill effects.(Needed to activate :NET 3.5 and once to repair something)