bootable usb

Hello! I made the big mistake (head low) of installing Ubuntu 18.04 on my Surface Pro 4 with a complete disk wipe. I tried to reinstall Windows 10 from a bootable USB but it failed because the disk does not have a NTFS formatted partiton and the formatting option was greyed out. Should I do...

I have been searching for a solution to allow boot up only if a third party hardware is connected. For the new tech people. A similar solution was possible during the days of Windows 95 up to Win Me by using Dos. The idea is to disable all the HDD from booting and enabling USB and once the boot...

The mbr on my Windows 10 professional laptop is missing or corrupt. I've tried to repair it through the command prompt but it won't let me run as administrator because it can not find the runas command. I have bootable usb and able to boot into the troubleshooting mode but it won't repair...

Hi all. I'm new to the forum. I've been installing Windows for many years and I've seen this issue before with malware infected Windows installation files on Windows 7. If the installation is tainted, a cmd window will flash briefly before the install launch page. I have the same issue...

The Windows 8 Lenovo Yoga Pro 2 machine says 'Default Boot Device Missing or boot failed. Insert recovery media and hit any key', when we boot. I've followed these instructions, with no luck: Link Removed The machine cannot recognize the hard drive. Can I create a bootable usb drive, boot...

Hi My sons laptop has blue screen with code 0xc0000225. I have tried several suggestions to fix it but to no avail. Can't system restore as it says Norton preventing it, but can't access anything on laptop to uninstall Norton. Downloaded windows 10 onto new USB , but no prompt to open it comes...

As you known there are many sofwtare tools available which offer not only a setup.exe but an ISO to download. This ISO can either be burned on a CD/DVD or put onto an USB Flash drive. I am NOT talking about Win10 ISO images but other software like (examples): - Gparted GParted -- Live...

Hello i downloaded windows server 2012 R2 from microsoft and for some reason i can not get the iso to boot up I wrote the iso to dvd and it wont find it ? I tried usb to and same thing ? Could someone help. maybe its the program im using Im trying to boot windows server 2012 r2 onto my server...

New Dell has been working pretty good. Got a windows update this morning and now system will not boot. Without going to the Macrium boot usb, is there anything else that can be done.? Thanks.

I have a couple of USB Flash Drives which contain different bootable systems. When I plugin the USB falsh drives into the USB ports of my mainboard, boot my computer and let BootManager show up then they all appears as "Sandisk Cruzer" So it is difficult to distinguish between them. Is...

Hi I'm a Windows XP user. When I try to install win 7 ultimate on my pc, a error occurred 0xc80070570 and win 7 installation stopped. When I restarted my pc, my pc (win XP) is not starting and showing error 0xc000000f. So I made one bootable usb by android by app (iso 2 usb). And used this...

So I am trying to dual boot windows 10, but I cannot boot from any usb or hdd I install it on. I have used the media creation tool, on two computers, and 3 different usb's. But I get the error as follows: Due to this I am unable to install any copy at all. Please help it's starting to piss me off!

my Dell Inspiron 15r laptop keeps on restarting after the installation of windows 10 is done from a bootable USB and when I try to restart and use Windows 8 which was preinstalled it shows a message on a black screen.

Good morning! My name is Tamara. I just joined this Forum because I figured it would be a lot of help to me since I am in the process of taking my A+ certification. So I won't bore you with the boring details! But hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. Now, I don't know...

I see a lot of info on creating a bootable USB installation disk . What I am interested in , is a bootable USB of actual Win 7 . In case of hard disk boot troubles , I could use this to get in at least . Seem to recall , years ago seeing such a thing . Anyone ? Thanks .

Computer: Motherboard: Asus Prime B250 Plus CPU: Intel i3 7100 I formatted a hard disk and am trying to install Windows 7 64 bit into the first partition. When I try to install it freezes where it says: "loading windows" From my research I think it is a problem with usb3 drivers. When I plug...

Guys, I'm trying to install Windows 7 on a Dell Inspiron 17-7778 that currently has Windows 10 installed. This laptop does not have a CD-ROM drive and it only has (2) USB ports. I'm having trouble getting Windows 7 intalled, here are the things I have done to boot to CD or USB 1. Disabled...

I have an old laptop that I thought I'd try and speed up by using it as a Chromebook, however, I want to go back to Windows. I created a bootable USB Windows 10 drive and booted from that. I have run Win10 on this laptop before. When I try to install, there are now 27 partitions on the drive...

Assume a hard disk contains a possibly (partially) corrupted Windows 7. I boot now a ToolsCD or USB flash drive with Windows 10. When I open now a CmdPrompt and enter sfc /scannow /offwindir=C:\Windows /offbootdir=C:\ then I cannot do this since the local, active, running WinOS is different...

I have a new Surface Laptop and want to boot to a USB thumb. Unlike the Surface Pro, the laptop does not have a Volume button. It does use F5/F6, but neither work for booting. I know that I can select a custom startup from within Win 10 Pro, but want to go from power off to USB boot. Thanks.