Windows 10: Windows 10 Installation via USB flash drive

I'm using HP Pavilion 360 convertible laptop and it supports only Windows 10 drivers. After installing Windows 11 patches, my finger print sensors, bluetooth, portable device drivers went to error. Hence, I downgraded my PC to Windows 10 using ISO method. Unfortunately, something went horribly wrong and I lost my access to device manager, registry, command prompt, recovery back up sections etc. Inshort, laptop seemed useless. I connected with many microsoft agents but things didn't work out. So after multiple investigations by myself, I could finally install it. Below are the steps followed. W

:)

 

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

 

Installing Windows 7 via USB flash drive!

USB drive doesnt show up, even after a format through windows (XP)

Any suggestions?

 

Installing Windows 7 via USB flash drive!

i have been installing Windows 7 Ultimate x86 OEM from my Kingston G2 8gb usb for over 6month now, and it's formattet as NTFS but you need to active the partition on the usb flash drive to get it to boot propperly and give it the barcode that the Windows 7 disc have.

i have use this guide several times but once the usb flash drive's partition is activated you never need to do that again.

Guide: How to Install Windows 7 From USB Drive without Windows 7 iso dvd - Blogsdna.com