Windows 10: Win10 install from USB on tablet with 1 USB port impossible? no touchscreen support?

Please explain the correct method for interacting with the iso installation program when installing from USB onto a tablet which, per typical, has only 1 USB port and an internal 20GB hard drive. The only USB port is in use by the USB drive, so there is no place to connect a mouse, and the 32bit installation program does not support touchscreen functionality. This appears to be a common impasse for consumers with Win10 tablet installations, but every response from Microsoft in Microsoft Communities seems to be one in which the Microsoft rep pretends to either misunderstand the central issue of the lack of touchscreen support as being a request for basic installation instructions, or they pretend that they believe there is some hardware failure causing the lack of ability to use the touchscreen. These answers are either ridiculously and absurdly dishonest, or you need to hire someone with better english language comprehension skills to answer questions. Either way, I would prefer you to skip the aforementioned Burns and Allen comedy routine and directly address the issue of the lack of touchscreen support an offer a work around or feasible method of interacting with the installation program. Thank you.

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Using USB hub for more USB ports on Windows tablet?

I had to reinstall OS on my Iconia W4 tablet and I've gone through hell to get Win10 re-installed because booting it directly from USB causes touch to be dead, meaning I couldn't select anything using screen. I also wasn't able to boot the thing with keyboard/mouse, because one and only USB port is occupied by bootable USB drive and swapping it later didn't work.

Then I thought, how about an USB hub (even passive one)? I'm not going to run anything super intensive on it, just keyboard+mouse and that USB drive. Does it work in terms of actually recognizing devices like they are individually hooked to the system? This is full Windows tablet so there shouldn't be any limitations otherwise found on Android tablets if you want to do the same.

Has anyone tried this?

 

USB Port Oddities


Ok, let's see it with pictures step-by-step. First right-click on the USB device and select Update driver software:





Then select Browse my computer for driver software (LAST option) :





The select Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer (LAST option) :





Then select the standard driver from the list and click next:





Click next/OK as required to complete installation. Repeat the steps for all Intel USB devices. Finally click on each USB root device and press DEL to delete it, reply YES when asked. After deleting all USB root devices restart the computer.

I hope this is detailed enough...

 

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