Windows 10: How to upgrade original windows 10 installation USB drive

Hello,


Short: How to create a bootable USB with new win10 version to original USB drive which came in win10 box? Win10 installation tool refuse to use this USB disk. It is probably locked somehow.


Still it is JUST a USB drive. And since it has a obsolede win10 version I do not want to use it any more. But to have a working new version of bootable USB drive is offen handy... Unfortunatelly, crash happens time-by-time...



several years ago I bought a box version of windows 10. It came in box with 16GB bootable USB drive...


Today, my laptop refused to boot... very strange, just shown no bootable devices found, and when I checked, the ssd was recognized but diskpart shown no partitions at all ?! after a hour ... i gived up and trying to reinstall windows completelly .


So, I want to reinstall ... the original USB drive is working win installed, but it is very old build a needs to be updated ... and it is a LOT of updates even several major updates.


On another laptop I download win10 installation tool to create a bootable USB. And I would like to update/upgrade original USB drive. Replace the old Win10-1511 build with a current one Win10-2210... any idea how?

Thanks.

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Windows 10 USB boot

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

 

Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk