Windows 10: Win 10 USB installation not giving location choice

I have an activated version of windows 10 on an old SSD. I want to move it to a new SSD but can't have 2 SSDs plugged in at once and I can't find my win10 activation code. My plan is to move win10 to my internal HDD where it will hopefully keep its activation, and then install the new SSD, and move win10 to that also hopefully keeping the activation. I found a guide saying the way to move win10 is to basically just reinstall it to the other drive. I got the win10 install tool from the official site and put it on a USB but when I run it, it doesn't give me any option to pick which drive it inst

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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

 

Win 10 USB install Fails, Linux has no problem

I did this step this morning just in case it wanted to act differently. Same issue though. error 0xc000007b and 0xc0000021a







Thank you all for the suggestions and support, this forum is amazing.

 

Fresh USB Windows 10 Install - Failing

I am trying to install a fresh copy (reformatted the hard disk) of windows 10 using a USB

• Created an installation media on a USB flash drive (Win 10 pro) from this page https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
• Changed the boot order on the other PC so that it boots using USB
• Selected custom install
• Installing Windows goes through the following steps successfully: Copying Windows Files, Getting Files ready for installation, Installing features, Installing updates and before the last step (Finishing up), it restarts
• Then it goes back to the start of the installation steps

I am stuck and have read numerous posts but don't know what to do to install a fresh copy of Win 10.