I agree with everyone else here - this is the best video I have found on this Windows 10 install from USB, clear, to the point, and with nearly every step distinctly described. Realize that they did all this instruction in just over 4 minutes ! Compare that to the 10, 12, or 15 minute rambling and sometimes suspect videos that use dodgy 3rd party utilities or don't show each step and still take 3 times longer. Well done.
@@mr.lunatic3157 Everyone, even Microsoft, seems to forget to mention that part. I luckily had read the comments so I was ready. I pulled that booting USB drive just as the machine auto-rebooted after the installation. Ironically it is one of the few things that an uninitiated user can encounter that will totally mess them up.
@@NimrodClover Can you explain this a little more I'm building a pc in a few days and these comments confuse me. Do yous mean to make sure you pull the USB like as soon as it installs? Cause I already have everything on this motherboard installed just need to wire it up and boot it on, but its my firs time building one so ive been really confused on how to simply download windows lol
There are many key sellers and free tools available to activate Windows 10. I tried several sources, including eBay, but they all stopped working after a couple of months. It was frustrating when my Windows kept deactivating. Once, my laptop crashed, and I couldn’t reactivate the key because it was no longer valid. Then I found a reliable company and haven't had any issues since. Their prices were also fair. Around $20-25.
@@Juan-re6rt First, thanks a lot, broo!!! I also tried a few from eBay in the past, but I can't find a working key with a good seller these days. What's the name of the company where you're buying keys? Could you share it with me? I need an Office key as well to use Excel and Word.
After attempting to do many resests through default BIOS and command prompt and a dozen failed attempts decided to go simple and old school and worked fantastically. Thank You! Easiest method out there
*TO EVERYONE* : if your usb has files on it, MAKE A BACKUP SOMEWHERE, because it's gonna delete ALL the files on the USB if there are any. i had many important college stuff on mine and now it's GONE :(
Microsoft could do a better job of warning people that everything on the USB drive will be erased, but it does tell you that. It seems that people don't really pay attention to what they're doing.... 1:20
but how do I know which portion to download it too, so many other videos split and do other stuff and it works it won’t just let me click one to install on
Thank you so much for this! In my case I was trying to revert a Windows 11 laptop (which came with 11 pre-installed) back to Windows 10. I did everything the same up until the point where you install it. Before installing I had to go into the BIOS, to "Boot" and disable both default boot options. Then I disabled NvMe in the Fast Boot section, at the same time setting USB to Full Initial. Then I enabled Fast Boot. After that I Saved and resetted which brought me to the normal install screen you showed. Did everything from there the same, until it was time to reboot. When restarting it was just looping me back to the install screen. So on the next restart I entered the BIOS again. Simply reverted all the changes I had made. After saving and resetting once again, it worked! I hope this helps anyone else who had the same problems I did.
I’m having the same problem and tried resetting to default in bios which works but then I get an error message telling me to restart the install process.. I’m at a loss
@@lockypower416 in that case your best bet would be to format the C disk (if you don't have personal files there or don't care about losing them) during installation process, and then install it. Since prior files on C related to windows might be causing some issues.
I followed this video and it actually worked! I was in a reset loop at 64% when I tried to do a factory reset. This helped save me £70 to get if fixed which I was booked in to do tomorrow! Thank you so much!
oh my gossssh finally!!!!! my husband found me a 1,500 dell laptop at work and i accidently removed the windows and have been messing with this laptop for the last 5 days trying to figure it out the windows, bios, partition, hdd, etc!, my goooosh what a relief!!!! i wish i could like this video a million times, i would! thank you thank you thank yoooou!!!
little bit of advice for anyone doing this. unplug any other storage you have for now and only leave the drive you wanna boot from plugged in this will stop the possibility of having the boot files spread across more then one drive
If your having trouble getting to the USB, you can hold SHIFT + click RESTART on the login menu, from there go to advanced options and click USE EUFI, and there should be an option to USE UEFI USB. This will boot up the USB,
In some cases the installation setup will loop after the restart. Make sure to unplug the usb during the countdown. If you are looped back to the setup menu, remove the usb at this time, and close the setup menu so it restarts the computer.
This is so helpful. I wanted to add. For those of you with an old ASUS laptop ... you may need to enable Legacy Boot (in BIOS) in order for it to recognize your USB. This had me scrambling for awhile but finally figured out to enable Legacy Boot. Once enabling Legacy Boot, make sure to Save changes and Exit. Then power off the computer. Power it back on and press Delete key or F2 (i recommend alternating between the two just in case, this is how to access the BIOS initially as well). Then a screen will pop up to select where to boot from. Your USB should display in the list. Select it by navigating with the arrow keys then press enter.
Side note: Ensure you eject any other storage device on your PC or Laptop aside from the primiary usb drive you want to do the windows 10 bootable on when using rufus. Just saving you the headache.
on the last step I stupidly kept hitting load disk and not just the next button. this video was way more helpful and skimmed down than the official Microsoft article I was following
if you log in with the Microsoft account you had before reinstalling Windows 10, your license is automatically activated because the product key is associated with the account
@@mihael9271probably already fixed it but I’ll leave it here for anyone else who needs it. This is a response from chat gpt but it has worked for me: Convert MBR to GPT Using Diskpart (Will Erase Data) If you’re okay with wiping the SSD, you can use diskpart to clean the disk and convert it to GPT: 1. Boot into the Windows Installation USB: • Plug in your USB and boot from it. 2. Open Command Prompt: • On the Windows Setup screen, press Shift + F10 to open Command Prompt. 3. Use Diskpart: • Type diskpart and press Enter. • Type list disk to display a list of disks. Note the number of your SSD. • Type select disk X, replacing X with the number of your SSD. • Type clean to erase all data on the SSD. • Type convert gpt to convert the disk to GPT. 4. Close Command Prompt: • Close the Command Prompt, then continue with the Windows installation. Your SSD should now be available for installation.
Thanks alot. For people who get the error "can't install on disk, disk is of type gpt" You basically need to switch from Legion into UEFI mode, you can find this in the bios, boot options (boot mode) After that if you want to preserve files, just choose the C disk you to install it in, and if your D disk has files it should be safe hopefully. But if you want a clean installation (from new) and delete all existing files then u can format the disks that are C and D (if you only had C then only format C) do not format the partitions that are recovery or anything else, only format the disks C and D (for clean installation) then select C to install it and just wait till its done. If you changed the boot order beforehand, you should go into bios and make sure windows bootmanager is at top, and also change boot mode back into both (legacy and uefi). (Also careful with pressing f9 in boot options, it's supposed to set boot setup to default but for me it was deleting windows boot manager from the boot options.
Jesuss christt after 10 painful hours of doing every troubleshooting steps that existed for the blue screen error, I had to resort to this one and it saved my life. Files were lost unfortunately but I fixed the darn thing
I needed this video. In my IT class today my classmates are building computers while my job is to install an operating system via USB. My teacher said I could install any system I like, so why not windows 10? Haha
different times compared to windows 98 or XP etc, pain in the ass searching for drivers and windows having temper tantrums, now its all straight forward, window 10 does a pretty good job at finding all the drivers also.
@@anuragnayak9704 You will need to be connected to the internet to get the installatioj for windows 10/11 but after you get your USB stick ready for install you wont need to be online to setup your desktop.
I've activated windows 10 home which came with the laptop but still while installing windows through flash drive I don't get to choose any windows version. The system itself boots up Windows 10 Home.
I have a laptop with a HDD (where my windows is installed). I would like to re-download windows OS but on the new SSD NVme M.2 stick I got and installed in my laptop. Would this work or would I have to re-download windows os with a recovery drive of some sort?
Omg thanks so much for this, i am installing windows on a mac with a mostly destroyed screen with thick lines all over it, this really helped me know where to click👍👍
Is it normal for screen to flicker black after privacy settings setup? Everything works find during start up functions well so not sure if that's normal or not
Man ya know my pc got corrupted while reset and advance startup was coming black and I spended 5 days on figuring out what to do then dumb me got to know I CAN DOWLOAD WINDOWS WOTH FLASH DRIVE TOO AHAHAHHA AND NOW I HAVE MY PC BACK AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA
