Gigabyte P35-DS3L unable to boot from USB for windows 10

Hi All,

I'm trying to do a clean install of windows 10 (specs in signature). I upgraded my PC already using the free upgrade from win 8.1 to win 10. I created a win10 bootable usb drive using the MediaCreationToolx64 tool from microsoft.

I have a Kingston DataTraveler usb thumb drive, formatted to FAT32.

When I select to boot from USB-HDD, I get an "invalid partition table" message.

I googled around and found that a lot of people have this issue with gigabyte motherboards,

I know that my USB is bootable because I tried on my laptop and it does boot fine off my USB stick.

I've tried all the solutions from my google searches, but with no luck. More specifically, I tried rearranging the boot orders, all the USB controller/legacy options in the BIOS are enabled, I tried expanding the HDD menu but I only see my 3 internal hard drives listed as options to boot from. Some suggested formatting my USB thumb drive to FAT instead of FAT32, however I don't have the option for that. The only option I see when I go to format my USB drive is NTSF, exFAT, or FAT32.

Any help? Or do I just need to buy an external dvd-rom drive? I can't be the only one with this issue. DAMN YOU Gigabyte !!!

Thanks

Try using the MediaCreationTool to get an ISO and using Rufus to make a bootable USB.

I don't remember exactly how I got my old P35-DS3R to boot off USB, I think I ended up using a different brand USB drive (than the one that wouldn't work), and it worked.

Suprfire said:

Try using the MediaCreationTool to get an ISO and using Rufus to make a bootable USB.

I don't remember exactly how I got my old P35-DS3R to boot off USB, I think I ended up using a different brand USB drive (than the one that wouldn't work), and it worked.

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what options should i select when creating the bootable usb thumb drive from Rufus? defaults?

rlee said:

what options should i select when creating the bootable usb thumb drive from Rufus? defaults?

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If NTFS doesn't do it, you can try FAT or FAT32. I don't think it would hurt to "add fixes for old BIOSes" under advanced; to access advanced options you click the arrow next to Format Options.

These are the defaults (except for "add fixes for old BIOSes") when you select the Windows 10 ISO.

If the defaults don't work:
You can also try unchecking "Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID"

omg that worked - thanks so much! you just saved me from buying an external dvd rw drive lol.

i ended up using NTFS and using the settings you provided, then hit F12 to boot menu, selected HDD and it showed 4 drives, 1 of which was my usb drive. This wasn't working previously when using FAT32 - so I am not sure if it is just a result of me using Rufus or the result of selecting NTFS filesystem or a combination of both.

But anyway thank you!