I am trying to create a windows 10 install USB bootable flash drive. I'm using the Windows 10 ISO and bootsect.exe command. The command says that the drive is locked and won't create a boot sector. I've tried wiping the drive.
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When I try to create a partition on it, it won't allow me to. It will only allow me to format it. When I format it, it won't allow me to set the partition as 'Active'. I am really frustrated. I wanted to make a Windows 10 install with a partition containing my computer's drivers and another partition with a backup of its completed install (after all the updates).
It is a Kingston data traveler 32GB flash drive. It worked when I experimented using an old HDD (but the drive failed because of bad sectors). So two issues. It won't allow me to make the flash drive bootable, and it won't allow me to partition it. Hi, Thank you for posting in Community.
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We understand your concern and we will provide the assistance required to help you resolve the issue. Before we proceed, I would like you to provide the information stated below: What error message do you receive when you try to try to create an Active Partition and when you try to create a partition? For now, I suggest that you try creating a bootable media by following the steps provided below and check if you can successfully create it. Go to this and download the official Windows 10 media creation tool. Make sure you download the correct one tailored for your desktop operating system which you’re currently running – 32-bit or 64-bit.
Plug in a USB drive to your Windows PC. Launch the media creation tool you just downloaded. Select ‘Create installation media for another PC’ option. Click on ‘Next’ in the bottom right corner 5. On the next screen, you’ll be presented with a bunch of options. Select your language, the edition of Windows 10 you wish to download, and the architecture. Click on ‘Next’ once your choices have been made.
Select the ‘USB flash drive’ option, which should be highlighted by default. Click on ‘Next. The tool will now prompt you to select the USB drive you’ve plugged into your PC. Click on ‘Next’ once you’ve made your choice. Windows 10 will now begin downloading and once the process is complete, you will have successfully create a bootable media. Having stated the above, I would like to inform that you cannot create or store other information in the same flash drive where your Windows 10 bootable Media is created. Doing so will cause you to be unable to install the OS when you are in a no boot situation.
Hope this helps. Unfortunately I've gone over my download usage this month because of upgrading several computers to Windows 10 from 7. I tried reducing my download usage by downloading the ISO image which helped speed up some of the process, but since the tool downloads for each computer, it just isn't practical to use it again. That being said, I solved the bootable USB issue, but haven't attempted multiple partitions. I couldn't set the options for the drive from within the Windows 10 disk management, so I had to resort to the command prompt in admin mode.
This appears to have worked for me. Creating a Bootable USB Windows Installation Disk from the ISO image.
Type 'cmd' in the search bar and right click on 'Command Prompt'. Click 'Run as Administrator' Make sure you are in the c: windows system32 folder. If not, type 'CD c: windows system32' and press enter. Type 'DISKPART' and press enter. Type 'LIST DISK' and press enter.
Observe which number represents the USB drive. Type 'SELECT DISK drive #' (no brackets) and press enter. Type: CLEAN enter CREATE PRIMARY PARTITION enter SELECT PARTITION 1 enter ACTIVE enter FORMAT FS=NTFS enter.WAIT FOR COMPLETION.
ASSIGN enter EXIT leave command window open. Go to the Windows 10 ISO Image with the file explorer, right click on it and mount it. Go back to the Command Window and change to the mounted drive. Drive letter: ENTER Change to the boot folder CD boot enter type the following: BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 drive letter: enter Go back to the file explorer window. Make sure 'Show Hiden' is checked Select all the files and copy.
Now paste to the USB drive.Wait for Completion. Close all windows. Now the drive should be a bootable Windows 10 install. I'm not sure I'm understanding. I was successfully able to make a single bootable primary partition on the USB thumb drive through using the DISKPART command and BOOTSECT command from the command prompt in administrator mode.
Windows 'Disk Management' would not allow me to make the primary partion active or make multiple partitions on the USB thumb drive. (to set it active it had to be done from the prompt) It greys out all the options in 'Disk Management'. What I originally wanted to do was make two 4GB partitions and one 24GB partition.
The first (4GB) would be the bootable Windows 10 install, the second (4GB) partition would be my laptop drivers, the third (24GB) partition would be for the System backup (I need aprox 21GB for the backup) after everything is setup and updated (The backup command will not allow a backup to the bootable partition). From what you wrote, it appears that you are saying that it should be possible to make the three partitions, but the thumb drive just wouldn't be bootable? Is that correct? And that if the ISO file is on the primary partition it should boot?
The method I used from the command prompt does make the device bootable (it worked for me) and the Windows 10 install starts. I just can't make the other partitions. I just wanted to keep all the data on one thumb drive so I could store it away instead of having multiple devices getting scattered and lost. I tried to see if I could shrink the partition to make the other two partitions, but 'Disk Management' won't allow (option is greyed out). I was able to do what I wanted with a USB connected HDD but unfortunately the drive was on its last legs, and was suffering from chronic bad sector disease (probably secondary head failure). That is why I decided to try the USB thumb drive.