Help with windows 10 USB install

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Jeremy1369

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I am having trouble getting windows 10 to install from a usb drive. I have tried a 64GB 3.0 usb and a 16GB 3.0/2.0 usb and have the same issue. I download windows 10 from the media creation tool which seems to go fine but when I hook it to the motherboard I get the no drivers found error message I tried plugging the drive into my 3.0 port and 2.0 port with no success - I have no idea what I'm doing wrong and it is driving me crazy please help.

Thanks,
Jeremy

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The issue here isn't the USB stick, it's that the system is failing to detect your hard drive.

Is your hard drive that you plan to install Windows on part of a RAID array? If so, you'll need to get the RAID drivers and put 'em on the USB stick so you can load them during the install.
 
Or sometimes the media creation tool is a moron and fails to get an intact image for you to install from. What I have started doing (after running into this problem numerous times) is spoofing my browser user agent so that the Windows 10 download page offers me a direct iso download instead of the media creation tool (or if you have a Linux computer, Android tablet etc you can download the iso there without changing your user agent). You can find guides on google for how to do this, if you want to check if that is your problem. You still download directly from Microsoft, but not with the tool.

What the tool does is try and save you from downloading the whole 4GB iso file by leaving bits it thinks you don't need out. So the tool creates a 3.2GB-ish iso, but in some cases this iso is missing vital parts in my experience.
 
sinisterDei said:
The issue here isn't the USB stick, it's that the system is failing to detect your hard drive.

Is your hard drive that you plan to install Windows on part of a RAID array? If so, you'll need to get the RAID drivers and put 'em on the USB stick so you can load them during the install.
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Yep, sure looks like either no drive attached or the mobo disk controller is in RAID mode.

OP, take note of the message circled in red.

ETA: OP, did I see in one of your other several posts on this that you are trying to install the OS to a USB drive?
If so, don't do that.

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You certainly can't install Windows 10 *on* a USB attached drive; you can only install it *from* a USB drive to a fixed SATA or SAS disk.
 
Spartacus said:
Yep, sure looks like either no drive attached or the mobo disk controller is in RAID mode.

OP, take note of the message circled in red.

ETA: OP, did I see in one of your other several posts on this that you are trying to install the OS to a USB drive?
If so, don't do that.

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Yes that was me and why is that bad?
 
Installing to RAID is fine, you just need the RAID drivers to make it work.

Installing Windows to a USB disk is possible, but it's not a standard install.
 
Jeremy1369 said:
Yes that was me and why is that bad?
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There might be a way if you want to jump through enough hoops to do that.

There is no point though.... a USB drive is meant to be a portable storage device. When the OS installs, it
installs drivers for the specific hardware in the system, and the license is tied to that system. You couldn't
take the USB drive with the OS on it and reliably boot it up on another system anyway. The hardware config
and Windows license are tied back to the original system.

A Windows PE boot disk would make a lot more sense, something like "Gandalf".

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Jeremy1369 said:
Yes that was me and why is that bad?
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well as a hole compared to regular sata type ssd drives it would normally be very much slower and usually expensive per md, compared to sata ssds which is typical. Ideally your setup would work best with a M2 type drive.
 
Also.... your target drive and your source drive can't be the same if you are also trying to do that.

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Pandur said:
Or sometimes the media creation tool is a moron and fails to get an intact image for you to install from. What I have started doing (after running into this problem numerous times) is spoofing my browser user agent so that the Windows 10 download page offers me a direct iso download instead of the media creation tool (or if you have a Linux computer, Android tablet etc you can download the iso there without changing your user agent). You can find guides on google for how to do this, if you want to check if that is your problem. You still download directly from Microsoft, but not with the tool.

What the tool does is try and save you from downloading the whole 4GB iso file by leaving bits it thinks you don't need out. So the tool creates a 3.2GB-ish iso, but in some cases this iso is missing vital parts in my experience.
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I have a hell of a time installing Windows 10 on my x58 motherboard but maybe it's because it is a old chipset , i don't know. Tried USB and DVD but something goes wrong eveytime.
 
If you're trying to install to a USB drive wintousb is a tool you can use to do this. Its not the best and performance of most USB drives suck so bad its not worth it but it is possible.
 
lilfiend said:
If you're trying to install to a USB drive wintousb is a tool you can use to do this. Its not the best and performance of most USB drives suck so bad its not worth it but it is possible.
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I got it installed finally after i followed Pandur instructions and it worked perfectly.
 
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