Windows 10: Windows 10 won't install from newly created USB recovery drive

Hello there.

I chose to give my PC a complete reset, erasing everything on both my SSDs. But first I created a recovery drive with an USB stick. Problem is, after it has completely erased everything it won't install from the USB stick. This is what happens:

1. Put in USB and turn on PC.
2. I choose keyboard layoutand then get to the menu with the options recover, troubleshoot and turn off PC.
3. I choose recover and it goes to the screen "recovering your PC".
4. At about 60-70% it changes the screen to a message saying "there was a problem reseting your computer. No changes were made".

I've tries 6-7 times now. I've tries disconnecting my secondary SSD, but didn't do anything. I have no idea what to do now. What has usually been a pretty straightforward task of reseting my PC has now turned out to me being clueless how to fix this.

Anyone have possible solutions for this?

Best regards, Sune.

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create recovery drive

Hi,

Sorry for the delay in response.

I suggest you to refer the below support article and check.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/create-usb-recovery-drive

(Steps for 8.1 also applicable for Windows 10)

Let us know if this helps.

 

Create Recovery Drive in Windows 10  


I created a USB recovery flash drive.

In File Explorer, the list of files does not correspond to the screenshot for step 5, here:
Repair Install Windows 10 with an In-place Upgrade Installation Upgrade Tutorials

For example, setup.exe is missing.

Please advise.

Thanks.
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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