Windows 10: Windows 10 tablet won't boot a windows install USB drive with the m.2 SSD installed... when...

A little background, it's a dell venue pro 11 7140 (core m, 8 gigs of ram) and it stopped booting about a week ago. It hangs on the rotating dots. Selecting the USB drive from the boot menu accomplishes nothing.

Here's where it gets weird: if I PHYSICALLY remove the SSD and restart the PC it takes me to setup, however since my SSD isnt physically connected theres nowhere to install windows.

This is my only computer and I'm a lacking resources at the moment, am I missing something?

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unable to install windows on M.2

Windows 10 features ENABLED
ACHI ENABLED
UEFI only
First boot drive USB keymap
Second boot drive M2
All other boot drives unplugged.
Install Windows remove USB after first restart.

 

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

 

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