Windows 10: Start windows 10 Setup from a different folder

I have download windows 10 pro and home editions with both 32 and 64 bit versions of the os by using media creation tool.I have make bootable my external hard disk by using bootsect.exe and I have copy all the necessary files at the right partition of this drive.

bootsect /nt60 {my drive letter}:

** I didn't use /mbr option because I have grub installed to this disk too with 2 linux distributions. **
After that I made this partition active by using diskpart.

Anyway...I had no problem to start the windows setup and install (clean install) windows from there but I wanted to change the name of the folder that includes the specific version of the os to something else.
For example for 64-bit version of the os windows 10 setup has an 'x64' folder and for 32-bit it has an 'x86' folder.Both of those folders are on the root of my external hard disk partition.
The thing is I can change the name of this folder to 'Win10_x64' for 64-bit and 'Win10_x86' for 32-bit version.After that with the right modifications to bcd file I am steel able to boot Windows 10 Setup but when I press install I recive the message the installation can't find drivers (load driver error).
I don't know what else I should change in order to me this work.

I also tried (only for testing purposes) to leave 'x86' and 'x64' folders with the original names (they boot fine) and rename boot.wim file to boot1.wim to see if I get this error again.
Of cource I gave the right commands to bcdedit to change the 'device' 'osdevice' and 'descreption' parameters for the right {guid} in order to boot the boot1.wim but I had no drivers problem this time.

My question is:
What is the right file (or files) I should edit in order to make the installation working without driver problem by changing the boot path for the boot.wim file?
Are they inside the boot.wim file?

:)

 

Windows 10 setup interrupted due to power failure.

I downloaded windows 10 with Windows Update and started the setup. When the setup reached 50%, there was a power failure. It is common in my country. So, I started my PC again and instead of continuing it restored my Windows 7. Now, the GWX icon is gone,
and I checked Windows update too but I can't get it even though it says that Windows 10 is reserved. I started the setup from the $Windows~BT folder but it said that some files were missing. I started the GWX icon manually from its folder but no matter how
many times I click on it, it doesn't do a thing.

Please help as soon as possible.

 

80004005 Error Updating Win 8.1 Home to Win 10 Home

Hi,

How important is it that you "Keep Everything"... ?

If a Reset were possible what would you lose in comparison to somewhat of a Clean Install of Win 10...

There are a couple of options... Run the upgrade from within Win 8.1 as you have been trying, but launching it from a different SETUP file in the SOURCES folder of the Win 10 Media...

Or boot with the Win 10 Media and start from scratch...

 

I would like to see an answer to this problem too. This is the only way I've made a 4 in 1 install media work:
Solved How to make 4 in 1 installation USB? - Windows 10 Forums

Change anything in the resulting folder structure and I get the same error. Use EasyBCD to boot from the Windows setup ISO - same error.

 

Why don't just have two DVD-ROMs? One for installing Windows 10 home or Pro 32-bit and one for Windows 10 Home or Pro 64-bit?

Another method would be to have a USB flash drive where you have extracted the Windows Setup files in a different folder, like W10x86 and W10x64. Include in that drive the utility imagex both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Then use a Windows 7 DVD-ROM to boot the target computer. When you see the Windows Setup menu press SHIFT+F10 to launch a command prompt. Use diskpart to create a partition to the new disk, make it bootable and format it to NTFS. Then connect your USB flash drive and use imagex to copy all Windows Setup files from sources\install.wim of the respective Windows 10 folder, depending on architecture. Restart the target computer and boot from the hard disk. Let setup finish and you are ready! The commands are these:

diskpart
select disk 0
create partition primary
format fs=ntfs quick
active
assign letter=W
exit

These create a primary partition on a new unpartitioned disk, format it to NTFS, make it bootable and mount it as W:

At this point connect your USB drive. Since there is no C: drive yet, usually it becomes C: If not try other drive letters and use DIR to see contents and verify it is your USB flash drive. To extract the Windows Setup files use these commands:

C:\imagex.exe /apply C:\W10x86\sources\install.wim 1 W:\

This will run 32-bit version of imagex and install Windows 10 Pro 32-bit to the new hard disk. To install Home version replace 1 with 2. To install 64-bit version replace imagex with the filename of the 64-bit version and W10x86 with W10x64.

Of course we are not done yet! We first must install a boot loader to the hard disk. To do that enter these commands:

bcdboot W:\Windows /s W:
bootsect /nt60 W: /force /mbr

At this point you can either press the reset button or execute the following command to reboot:

wpeutil reboot

I know this is not very convenient, but it's still a 4-in-one alternative. Best of all, you can do this in any computer, not need to be on the target computer since at this stage no drivers are installed. After you have extracted the files you can put the disk to the final target and continue from there. From this point of view is more convenient than a 4-in-1 DVD-ROM. Beware though! If you use your own computer to prepare the disk, make sure no other disk is connected or you risk wiping your own disk with diskpart! It's safer to do it on the target computer with no other disks installed. If the disk has two partitions and you only want to format one for Windows, I recommend doing that on another computer and skip the diskpart steps.

 

Hmmm.... and to think all I have to do is just boot from my USB flash drive. My boot options are Windows 32bit setup, Windows 64bit setup, Macrium Reflect Free, or MiniTool Partition wizard.

If I pick either of the Windows setups, the next option is Home or Pro. Or the other options start either Macrium Reflect Free or MiniTool Partition Wizard. Seems pretty convenient to me - except I would like to find a method to add Windows Insider build setup to my flash drive.

 

I know all of those things.You are missing the point.I can boot my Windows 10 Setup if I want without problems.I can also create an AIO installer with both (home and pro) editions if I want.I could even include Windows 7 and windows 8 versions inside the install.wim easily.
My point is to achieve to start Windows 10 Setup for every architecture from a folder with a different name.My main target is to include Windows 7 and Windows 8 Setups while I have separated folders for every setup into one partition of my external hard disk and add values for each one on bcd file of the bootloader.
For example: I want a folder Win7_x86 for 32-bit Windows 7 and Win7_x64 for 64-bit Windows 7.The same thing for win8 and win10.

Anyway thanks for your answer but I don't have problem to install Windows on my internal hard disk. I want to configure the setup right so they can be installed without the "load driver error" normally.

 

And when you figure it out, please share it with at least me, because I want to know too!

 

If your bootable USB flash drive uses the Windows Boot Loader, you could use a utility such as EasyBCD to easily modify the boot entries. However, I don't know how you can configure the utility to change the boot entries of the USB rather than those of your Windows system. The safer would be to work with bcdedit in an elevated commant prompt, but this is not too easy. All you need is to modify the appropriate boot entries to load from the specific folder you want.

Moments like these you wish you had a simple boot.ini file like in Windows XP which you would modify by Notepad...

 

Doesn't work. Tried it. The Windows setup will give you the message the installation can't find drivers (load driver error). The Windows 10 setup ISOs must be extracted to exactly the root of the USB drive and the folder structure must be retained exactly. And you can't add extra images to the install.wim files either - at least not an insider build image any way.

 

In that case, maybe you can partition your USB Flash drive so each version is at the root of a specific partition. Then use the boot loader to load each setup. If the USB Flash drive is large enough and you make each partition adequate, sounds like a solution.

 

Maybe, haven't tried that yet.

 

One solution is if we use a different partition for every windows installation so we can avoid conflictions.
But my main problem is I already have 2 partitions (ext4) for linux distributions and 1 partition (fat32) for my PS2 Console.

So my final purpose is every windows setup can run in every system with bios technology (without UEFI).

According to MBR table we have the possibility to create only 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended and inside this extended partition we can create other 4 primary partitions.So the maximum number of partitions we could have with MBR table is 7.

So I want to create a larger (NTFS) partition (to store data) and a smaller (NTFS) (to have all my Windows Setups) in order to have the possibility to create an other partition if I have to.

 

Sound really complicated. This isn't just a 4-in-1 is everything-in-1. I thought you only tried to make a Windows installation media. Adding Linux and other stuff complicates things.

 

My goal would be Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 RTM, and Windows 10 Insider on one USB bootable with or without UEFI. I'm going to try the partition idea after work today.