VIDEO Installing win10 on my new computer using UEFI & USB stick

patchie

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My setup: I have just upgraded most of the parts in my computer(desktop), this includes the motherboard which supports UEFI.

My image: I got an win10 image from a friend of mine, which he knows should work.

What i have tried:
1. I have tried to install the .iso file on the USB stick using "Unetbootin" and "Rufus 3.1", using several different configs.

2. I have turned off CSM and legacy in UEFI, to make sure i setup using the correct UEFI settings

3. When i boot, and select F11, i can then select the usb device with name "UEFI:.......", so it actually recognices that its a UEFI device. You can also see by the content that it also has a .efi file on the usb stick.

4. Then i can see the windows logo(without the dots underneath). And it seems to read from the usb for like 10 seconds, and then everything stops and nothing happens.
<-- just hangs like this.​

Debugging:
- I tried to check for errors using the windows 7 "error checking" tool. Didn't find any bad sectors.
- I tried to run the same iso on my laptop just to make sure the usb stick works, and this is how it looks on my laptop:
As you can see here, the windows logo appears, then the dots underneath appears.​

Any idea what i should do next? Do i need to fix some bios/UEFI settings?
 
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The "spinning dots" is the when the boot.wim file is loaded into memory. That's basically the win PE environment to launch the installer from. I'd say you probably have a mismatch between how the system is booting and the format of the USB drive. In otherwords it can't find or load the PE environment. So just make sure the BIOS/UEFI and the same. Either CSM/Legacy (BIOS) USB MBR or BIOS set to UEFI and the USB is created as GPT
 
With rufus use these settings for a UEFI boot usb

 
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Would alos help if you got the iso using media creation tool from Microsoft as that iso is not behaving as it should within rufus