Make Bootable Windows 10 Flash Drive On Mac For Other Computer





























A few days back, I’ve already written a guide on. And in today’s tutorial, I will guide you how to make a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 10 operating system. How to Make Bootable USB Drive for Windows 10 First of all, make sure that the USB flash drive that you’re willing to convert into a Windows 10 bootable media should not have any important data on it. This is because the following process will format the drive and you will lose on it. Also make sure that the drive is of minimum 4GB capacity, as the process requires 3GB of space.

I’m using Rufus to create the bootable USB drive for this Windows 10 installation and I elected to use the “check device for bad blocks” option and it’s taking forever to create the drive. Use Media Creation Tool to create Bootable Windows 10 USB for Legacy BIOS and UEFI This option will use the Media Creation Tool from Microsoft to download an ISO file and create a bootable USB flash drive that is 32-bit, 64-bit, or both, and be used to install Windows 10 with or without UEFI.

With having these things in mind, just follow the below-mentioned steps to make a bootable Windows 10 USB flash drive. Very first, download the Windows 10 media creation tool. Here’re the links to download the Windows 10 media creation tool for and Windows respectively.

Once the Windows 10 media creation tool is and installed, launch the application. You’ll then be asked What you want to do? Select Create installation media for another PC, and click Next. In the next screen, you need to select your preferred language, architecture and the edition of Windows you’re using, and then click on Next. NOTE: If you are running Windows 7 Starter, Windows 7 Home Basic, Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 with Bing, or Windows 10 Home, choose Windows 10 Home as Edition.

If you are currently running Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, Windows 8 Pro, Windows 8.1 Pro, Windows 8 Professional, Windows 8.1 Professional with Media Centre, or Windows 10 Pro, choose Windows 10 Pro as Edition. If you are currently running Windows 8 Single Language, Windows 8.1 Single Language, or Windows 8 Single Language with Bing, choose Windows 10 Home Single Language as Edition. If you are currently running Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition, Windows 8.1 Chinese Language Edition, or Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with Bing, choose Windows 10 Home China as Edition. On the next step, you’re required to choose USB flash drive when asked Choose which media device to use as you’re creating a bootable USB flash drive for Windows 10. The Media Creation Tool will begin downloading the ISO straight to your pen-drive.

Once the download completes, Finish the setup. You should now have a Windows 10 bootable USB flash drive, based upon the options you chose.

If you’re facing any problem with these steps or Windows 10 media creation tool, you can try using the Windows USB/DVD tool that was specially designed for Windows 7 but works for Windows 8 and Windows 10 too. You may to learn how to use Windows USB/DVD tool.

Even with the rise of cloud storage, the USB flash drive is still vital for cases where the Internet won’t cut it, especially as CDs and DVDs die off. Not only are USB drives typically higher in capacity than disc media, they are faster for copying data such as setup files, and have much quicker access times as well. In short, installing software as large as Windows 10 from a USB drive is simply much faster than from a DVD (and of course the only viable option for PCs without an optical drive). Unlike with previous Windows releases, Microsoft sells on. If you’d rather make your own, however, this guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 10 DVD. To be clear, both these approaches will only show you how to put Windows 10 on a USB flash drive.

If you want to actually install Windows 10, you’ll still have to use the USB drive,. Windows 10 Media Creation Tool You’ll need a USB flash drive (at least 4GB, though a bigger one will let you use it to store other files), anywhere between 6GB to 12GB of free space on your hard drive (depending on the options you pick), and an Internet connection.

If you’re running a 32-bit copy of Windows,. If you’re running a 64-bit copy of Windows,. If you’re not sure, hold the Windows key and press the pause/break button. See what it says under “System type.” You should see the following after downloading and launching the tool: Choose “Create installation media for another PC” and hit the Next button. Pick your language and one of the following editions: Windows 10 Home, Windows 10 Home N, Windows Home Single Language, Windows 10 Pro, or Windows 10 Pro N. The N variants only differ in the fact they don’t include Windows Media Player.

Windows 10 Bootable Flash Drive Tool

If you’re upgrading from an older version of Windows as opposed to doing a clean install, you’ll want to pick the for the upgrade to work. As for Architecture, pick either 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) just like before — you can also choose “Both” but I typically just end up going with 64-bit since almost every computer nowadays is 64-bit. The tool will now check that you have enough space on your hard drive, based on previous choices.

If you don’t, you’ll have to start the process again. Keep the first option and insert your USB drive now.

Pick your USB drive from the list. Remember, this process will overwrite everything on the drive.

If you have data on the device, first move it to your computer, another USB device, or somewhere else, and then resume when you’re done. Windows 10 will start to download, which may take a while if you’re on a slow connection.

You can now install Windows 10 from your USB drive, either by booting from it or from within a current installation of Windows. If you want to be able to do the above manually, see the next section. Manual creation Maybe you don’t like having a tool automate the process for you, or maybe you just love using the command prompt. Regardless of your reasons for creating a bootable Windows 10 USB drive manually, here are the steps on how to do it.

Before you start, you’ll need the.ISO file for Windows 10 — you can get this from various unofficial sources, but there are many official ones as well (the aforementioned Windows 10 Media Creation Tool can make one for you). If your Windows 10 installation image is in a different DVD image format, convert it to an.ISO file. Open the command prompt as the administrator (search for cmd, right-click, and choose “Run as administrator”), type “diskpart” without the quotes, and hit enter. Alternatively, open up the Start Menu, type “diskpart” without the quotes, and click Yes if prompted by UAC to give the program permission. Plug in your USB drive.

Type “list disk” without the quotes and hit enter. Take a look at the Size column and figure out which disk number your USB drive is. Ours is number 1, so we’re going to type “select disk 1” without the quotes and hit enter. Adjust your disk number accordingly.

If you haven’t done a backup of the contents on your USB drive, now is your last chance. Now wipe the drive by typing in “clean” without the quotes and hitting enter. Now we want to prepare the USB drive for the Windows 10 files and ensure it is bootable. Type “create primary” without the quotes and hit enter. Then type “select partition 1” without the quotes and hit enter. Next type “active” without the quotes and hit enter. Finally, type “format fs=fat32” without quotes and hit enter.

Make A Bootable Usb Drive Windows 10

This will format your USB drive in the Fat32 format using the Quick routine. (If you choose to use NTFS instead, you’ll later have to run a different command to put boot manager compatible files onto your USB drive to make it a bootable device.) This process will take some time, depending on the size and speed of your USB drive.

When that’s done, type “assign” without the quotes and hit enter (this will assign a new drive letter to the USB flash drive, making it accessible). Your USB drive will likely automatically open (if it doesn’t, find it in My Computer or This PC). Remember the drive letter (in our case it is H). You now have two options.

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You can extract the contents of the.ISO image file (open them in Windows Explorer or using your, and copy them directly to the USB drive) or you can mount the.ISO (use your ) and let command prompt do the work. We’ve been using the command prompt up to this point, so we’ll do this last step using it as well. Close diskpart and open up cmd again. Type “xcopy g:. /s/e/f h:” without the quotes, where “g:” is the drive letter for your mounted.iso file and “h:” is the drive letter for your USB flash drive. Don’t worry if install.wim takes a while to copy: It’s easily the biggest file on the disc. Type “exit” without the quotes and hit enter.

You can now install Windows 10 from your USB drive, either by booting from it or from within an existing installation of Windows.