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Creating a reliable, bootable Windows 11 USB from macOS is entirely practical on both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs — and with the right preparations you can build media that will install Windows 11 on a PC or an Intel Mac. The community guide this article expands on provides multiple tested...

You can absolutely create a bootable USB for Windows 11 without using Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool — and for many users that’s the smarter, faster, and more flexible path. This feature walks through the practical alternatives, explains why you might want to skip the official tool, verifies...

The end of free security updates for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025 is forcing millions of perfectly serviceable PCs to make a decision: pay for Extended Security Updates, retire the hardware, or find a way to install Windows 11 on devices Microsoft no longer “supports.” The good news is that...

Microsoft’s unyielding push for users to adopt a Microsoft account when setting up Windows 11 has sparked debate among privacy advocates, power users, and IT professionals. As convenient as cloud synchronization might be, many users remain wary of entrusting their preferences, files, and data to...

For MacBook owners who long to run the latest Windows operating system, Microsoft's requirements can feel like a formidable obstacle. Windows 11's contentious Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 2.0 restriction stands as a brick wall for almost all Apple hardware—no Intel Mac ever shipped with a...

For users and IT managers seeking a reliable, straightforward way to create a bootable USB drive with Windows 10 Pro (English, single language edition), the digital landscape is filled with both legitimate resources and questionable shortcuts. Over time, demand has grown for official, clean...

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In this tutorial we will be manually creating the system boot partition. This is for a system that is BIOS booting (sometimes referred to as legacy or legacy CSM) which utilizes the MBR. The MBR is the first sector on the hard drive that contains a small first stage boot loader which hands the...

Hello as I said in a thread ages ago I was having problems. I got a usb stick and made it into a win 10 installer but when I try to install I get my partitions and my main partition is bit locked and i cannot deactivate the bitlocker. So when I try to repair my pc from the stick it goes enter...

I have a boxed retail copy of Windows 7. The retail license allows me to use it on one computer at a time but I can also wipe a computer and install it on another as long as its only ever used on 1 at a time. I paid the extra for a retail copy rather than an OEM copy which is locked to one PC...

Have a brand new Lenovo Y50-70 running Windows 8.1. Wanted a Ubuntu partition so that I can run Kerbal Space Program in 64-bit. download 64 bit image of Ubuntu 14.10 and pendrivelinux's Universal USB Installer to burn it into a bootable USB. Go into BIOS and set it from UEFI to Legacy and to...

Hello all, I decided to come here and try out the windows7forums and see if they want my company and helpful insight. I was banned from sevenforums for, you guessed it, no good reason. (They seem to have a track record of doing that.) I hope, as I have heard, that Windows7Forums will treat me...

Hi Folks, MS just recently re-released their "improved" GUI tool to create a USB flash installer for Win 7 all versions. As you may or may not know their original release was found to be in violation of the GNU General Public License v2 (GPLv2) and they removed it from the MS store because of...