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Discus and support over writing an old official windows 10 usb in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; I was wondering whether I can Install a fresh windows boot drive onto an old windows boot drive it was an official usb bought from the shops but when I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by Jack-Yeet, Sep 23, 2020.

  1. Jack-Yeet Win User

    over writing an old official windows 10 usb


    I was wondering whether I can Install a fresh windows boot drive onto an old windows boot drive it was an official usb bought from the shops but when I use the installation media it says that it doesn't detect any drives I have already plugged it in and refreshed the list twice So i was Wondering whether You can use old media and format it to new media I was trying to reset my laptop as i had a virus on it, and I had used system restore to go back to an older version of windows


    If anyone can help, thank you

    :)
     
    Jack-Yeet, Sep 23, 2020
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    Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

    System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

    Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

    So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
    If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

    There is three options:
    Windows 10
    Windows 10 Home
    Windows 10 N

    Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

    System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

    Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
    That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks
     
    TRUELOVE95, Sep 23, 2020
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    Delta6326, Sep 23, 2020
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  4. Fernandz Win User

    over writing an old official windows 10 usb

    How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

    ¿You already tried this one?...

    Run CMD


    1. diskpart
    2. list disk

    Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

    2. select disk #
    3. clean
    4. create partition primary
    5. select partition 1
    6. active
    7. format fs=fat32
    8. assign
    9. exit

    with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

    good luck!
     
    Fernandz, Sep 23, 2020
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