Windows 10: Help! Login has disappeared when I boot

Did you redownload the newest version of the Media Creation Tool? I ask because if you ran an earlier version (old copy) it won't download the latest build of Windows 10. And I do believe the latest build won't fit on a standard DVD. It needs to be a dual layer.

 

It's either that, or its because its an mSATA drive. Googling "no signed device drivers were found" leads to Windows 7 issues, I didn't see anything specific to Windows 10.

 

He said he created it on a Win 7 box.

 

I don't think that matters? If it was an issue, you would think that the MCT wouldn't run and say not supported on this operating system. What Google was throwing back at me was people getting that message while trying to install Windows 7.

 

I said that kinda wrong. What I was thinking, probably impossible, is it created a Win 10 ISO to burn to his DVD, that included the "guts" of the 7 box, it's architecture, drivers, etc. - thinking he was gonna install it there. Probably not possible.....

 

It doesn't do that. It just extracts the ISO to the install media and sets the install media up to be bootable. I do believe the option listed is "Create install media for another PC".

 

Seeing as Windows 7 was included in the free upgrade the MCT should have no issues being run on a Windows 7 PC. I'm pretty sure that's not why he's getting the missing driver message. Not 100% sure, but reasonably sure. If you go here, https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/soft...load/windows10 and click the using the tool you'll see detailed info.

 

Oh, I don't doubt that at all. I wonder how he actually did it, though. If he didn't choose "make for another PC" and just followed thru and let the MS burner do the DVD, what did he get? I don't have a 7 machine to poke around on, so I'm kinda running blind.

 

I believe that is the page (except it was the UK version of the page) from which I downloaded the media creation tool.

I'm not 100% sure which USB drive is USB 2, rather than USB 3.
But you could be right about the DVD running out of space because it is only a single-sided DVD. There is 4.33 GB of data on the DVD - is that enough? The things is, though, surely it would have thrown an error message when I burned the DVD (earlier today) if it had run out of space.
Yes the DVD was created from a Windows 7 PC.
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Yes, I did choose "make for another PC" or similar words rather than install on this PC.

 

If you select the other option (upgrade this PC now) it does an in place upgrade without creating any install media.

 

What did you select for options in the next window? Language, Edition, Architecture? The defaults are likely based on the OS its being run from. If 32 bit was selected, or 10 Home Single Language, or 10 N, the ISO will be smaller than the 64 bit Windows 10 ISO. The "Windows 10" selection for Edition gets you a multi edition ISO that can install Home, Pro, Education and I think Enterprise. It's a big ISO. In the past that option just got you Home and Pro. Odds are you want Home or Pro, not SL or N.

 

I have tried plugging my USB DVD drive into each of my three USB port and for each one it seems from the noises that the PC can see the contents but it comes back with "No signed device drivers were found."

 

To get clear, no I didn't select the upgrade option.

 

For what its worth, I do up my thumb drives with diskpart, as I mentioned earlier. They work without issue on all my PC's here at home, UEFI and Legacy BIOS. Installs will be much faster than doing it from optical media. And I've done installs with them plugged into the USB 3 ports on my laptop. I use 16 gig drives because that's what I'm have on hand. The 4 gig drives I have aren't large enough.
I'm not sure why your getting the missing driver message. If its because your using the external DVD drive, doing your install from a thumb drive should get rid of it. It its not that its likely because its an mSATA and not a regular SATA drive. Gust a guess on my part to be honest.