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But really, were it not for Microsoft abusing their power and arbitrarily refusing to sign anything that's licensed under GPLv3, it would have been signed years ago...
Also, the official page is https://rufus.ie.
To avoid corrupt OS, create a usb bootable windows installation and use that OS for memory testing. I recommend https://rufus.ie/ for creating a usb boot device.
Also, some boards allow you to set your reset button to safe boot, it saves a lot of time when trying to train your memory and figuring out timings.
Treba ti drugi laptop i USB stik. Po mogućnosti da nije Kingston DataTraveler, ali ako nemaš drugi probaj s tim.
Skini Windows ISO s Microsoftove stranice. Nekad zna Microsoft kenjat pa neće dat download gumb ako pristupiš stranici s kompjutera koji već ima windows 10. Ako se to desi skini s ove stranice
Skini Rufus
Ukopčaj USB stik od bar 8 GB u kompjuter. Imaj na umu da će svi podaci sa USB-a biti obrisani.
Otvori Rufus, pod "Device" izaberi svoj USB. Pod "Boot selection" odi u preuzimanja i izaberi onaj ISO fajl koji si skinuo.
Klikni start i čekaj da završi
Sad taj stik ukopčaš u laptop i upališ laptop. Trebala bi ti se pokrenut windows instalacija.
Ako se ne pokrene, guglaj svoj model laptopa i upiši "how to boot from USB" i prati upute kako da pokreneš instalaciju s USB-a.
Poklikaj next next next i to je to.
Rufus developer here.
If you are interested, you can find a .appx (Windows Store) package for Rufus 3.0 in our (not so public) <code>testing/</code> directory. We also have ARM and ARM64 versions there.
That'll provide you with some form of installer.
However, because Rufus must run elevated, you will need to right click on the app, and then select run as an admin every time you launch it.
For the record, this is also the reason why we can't submit Rufus to the official Windows Store, because Microsoft does not allow submission for anything that requires admin access to a computer (which Rufus requires to be able to partition and format a drive).
You can use Rufus to build a bootable USB with the Windows build of your choice, all the way back to 1507 IIRC. If you don't have an ISO/disk for the version you want, Rufus will download it and build it for you.
- Create a recovery USB using Rufus
- Cold shutdown by holding power button
- Boot from the USB by getting advanced boot options (usually by spamming the F keys and Del)
- Reset the PC or worst case fresh install
When people say "recovery disk" or "Live CD", they don't necessarily mean the physical metallic donut. They're all referred to as disks and CDs for historic reasons, but nowadays you'll write a live CD to a USB instead. Use rufus or a similar program to write a the live CD's disk image to your USB and make it bootable. Go into your BIOS, configure the boot order to boot from the USB before anything else, and reboot.
If your BIOS supports it, you could probably even boot from a miscoSD or a blue-tooth connected drive if you really really wanted- its not limited to physical CDs. That's just terminology.
Using the MSI B450 Cabron Pro AC as well.
While first trying to flash with a 4GB Fat32 formatted stick i always got the 3x flashing red LED and nothing else happened.
How I flashed it:
Beta bios from: https://www.msi.com/blog/the-latest-bios-for-amd-300-400-series-motherboard
Format USB Stick (USB 3.0 64GB) with Rufus: https://rufus.ie/ with following settings: https://i.imgur.com/6rOPnsxl.png
Flashed without Ram / CPU
Hope this helps! Good luck.
- Te bajás la iso de la página oficial Microsoft. (Usa la opción para crear la iso y asegurate que bajas la versión x64, podés bajar ambas pero la iso es más pesada).
- Pasas la iso al pendrive con Rufus.
- Instalás.
- Y activás con Microsoft Toolkit.
If Fedora Media Writer fails on your Windows PC, I suggest you download the ISO file directly and then write it to the USB via the Rufus tool.
Reinstall Windows has been the ultimate fix for weird problems forever.
I recommend Rufus for copying the ISO onto a bootable USB stick. https://rufus.ie/en_IE.html
Windows 10 media download link https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
I had a similar problem with a G14 (2021). While investigating an issue, I altered some file permissions in a way that corrupted some programs downloaded from the Microsoft Store. The problems persisted after using "Reset this PC" from the Start Menu.
Ultimately, I was able to resolve the issue by doing a clean install of Windows from USB media. After this clean install, programs downloaded from or managed by the Microsoft Store worked again.
I think that some of the ASUS software that is managed by the Microsoft Store was not listed in My Library in the Microsoft Store, and I had to use the ASUS support site to install it. (This is the link for 2021 G14 series laptops. "See All Downloads" under "Software and Utility" to find missing utilities.)
I do not recall whether I used Microsoft's MCT or Rufus to create the USB. I do not expect that this matters much.
As a fellow person that Windows Update fucked over last week, let me explain what you have to do.
Get Rufus. Rufus is free. Go with 3.5, and 3.13. You might need both, at least I did.
Rufus 3.5 has an option to download an Windows 10 ISO, directly from Microsoft, but unlike the creation tool, you can choose the version you want.
You'll want to go back. 2004? 1909? Choose whatever was most stable for your system.
Then create a new installation media with your new ISO through Rufus, and make a clean install of a stable windows version. If it fails with 3.5, try with the new version. You'll need a USB stick of at least 8GB that will be formatted.
Installation process is straightforward. Boot from the USB, follow the prompts.
20H2 is fine for my 10 year old intel machine. 20H2 broke my current build, most likely M2 related. 20H2 also had some weird bugs for my Laptop.
Do not use the creation media tool for a new install. In my experience the clean install of 20h2 was even more broken than the update I did.
Windows 10 Home/Pro .iso download from Microsoft
Now all you need is time (the .iso takes a minute) and a USB key.
Nitpicky, but since you asked: you don't "burn" an ISO to a flash drive, you image it.
An ISO is a copy of a data disc. Imagine a huge ZIP or RAR file, only one that also includes disc information (such as if the disc is bootable). The reason Linux has been distributed on ISO forever (and Windows more recently) is because you can download a single ISO file from a vendor and burn that image to a CD or DVD, or image the file to a flash drive using something like Rufus. The alternative would be to download all 4,575 files from the Windows 10 Pro CD from Microsoft individually and hope you set up all the files and folders correctly.
> Do I load them directly onto a flashdrive, plug it in, and boot it via external?
Sort of. You can't just copy the files over, though, you have to burn them to it as if the USB drive were a CD. https://rufus.ie is a great tool for this; alternatively if you want to boot multiple at a time you could try https://ventoy.net.
> I accidentally toasted the hard drive when I overloaded the system with Windows 10. . . oops.
Ow. That happened to my old teacher's laptop too. And it was a pretty good one.
> will I tank the system by loading a Linux distro onto it like I did with Windows 10?
You'll probably be fine. The main thing to make sure with something like that is that you have adequate cooling on the CPU and good physical connections to all the "peripherals", but you should be good.
> I've also got two other desktops (that aren't my daily driver Windows 10 desktop). I don't remember what models or which Windows OS they're running, it's been a hot minute since I last booted them up, but I think I'd like to load them up with Linux too, potentially different OSes to play around with. Any suggestions for those?
Start with what you've got; honestly I'd say just play around with what works on that laptop you mentioned and and you can scale up from there. You may find that trying to do multiple things on multiple devices is somewhat confusing.
> I don't ever expect I'll be good enough to do this as a job, but for a hobby, I feel I could do a lot worse. . .
It's a great hobby. Welcome to the club.
Someone else will have distro suggestions for you; I won't bother with them right now. Eventually you realize that distro doesn't matter, but until then, it's an intensely personal choice and anyone who disagrees with you is a terrible person. But whatever.
Erstmal Linux Distro deiner Wahl (z.B. Ubuntu) auf einem bootbaren USB Stick installieren und auf dem Laptop hochfahren. Wenn auch das Probleme macht liegt ein Hardware Fehler nahe, ansonsten würde ich an der Stelle direkt Daten auf eine externe Festplatte sichern und Windows neu installieren, bevor du dich dumm und dämlich suchst.
Rule 1 of this subreddit:
>This is not a support forum! Head to /r/linuxquestions or /r/linux4noobs for support or help. Looking for a distro? Try r/findmeadistro.
But to give you a short answer: I think Linux Mint works quite well for beginners, specifically the version with the Cinnamon desktop.
You can download it and then load it onto a USB thumb drive with the tool Rufus. You can test it without installing it or making any changes to your existing Windows system.
Also, just to clarify: "Types" of Linux are called distributions or "distro" for short.
All you need is a spare USB pen drive and the windows program called Rufus to burn the ISO to the pen drive. You'll also need to download an Ubuntu (or any other distro if you want) ISO to brun.
You might have trouble shrinking partition that's already in use/mounted. I'd recommend creating a GParted-Live bootable USB (super lightweight linux distro that runs off a flash drive that let's you partition/format drives), booting into it, and then you should be able to shrink your current Windows partition.
You can create a bootable USB by downloading the GParted ISO here, and then using Rufus to create the bootable USB from the ISO. You only need like a 4GB+ drive, it takes up like no space.
For 128, you’ll want to format to FAT32 using a utility (I use Rufus Portable) before exporting from Rekordbox. Windows can format smaller drives, but for bigger ones you’ll need the utility
Solid advices.
> Cards need to be properly formatted first
I just want to add that format procedure that is described on official iFlash site is unnecessarily convoluted. I has been doing numerous tests with different adapters and restored my iPods a hundred times no less. And I find free Rufus utility much more convenient for preparing SD cards for iPod. Just choose "non-bootable" option and click start. It's fast, reliable and worked every single time for me.
OK so first things first:
- Unplug / remove all drives you are not trying to install the OS on
- Check the bios is up to date and you are using UEFI boot
- Check your bootable USB was setup for UEFI boot I normally use Rufus
Secure Boot cooperates with your motherboard's UEFI platform to ensure that the boot loader files are digitally signed by Microsoft every time you start your computer and attempt to load Windows. This protects you from malware that attempts to mess around with files related to this.
The easiest way to get Secure Boot working correctly is to reinstall Windows.
Please back up your files etc. to some other media before you start!
This involves the following steps:
- Download Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en_US/; this is open-source software and can be found at GitHub) and open it. Make sure you select Yes to checking for updates (this is a prerequisite of the next step).
- Use Rufus to generate a download link of an official 64-bit Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft. Click the little arrow next to "SELECT" to generate an official download link.
- Once you have downloaded an official ISO, connect a USB flash drive. Select the ISO you downloaded. Use the GPT partitioning scheme (which a UEFI install requires; the Windows installer takes care of the GPT partitioning for you). Start the flash—this takes approx. 10 minutes depending on both your flash drive version and USB port version.
- Once the flash is done, restart your computer and enter the BIOS. Look for the CSM option (likely in the Boot section; this is a backwards compatibility feature to support old operating systems or legacy installs). Disable CSM. Ensure Secure Boot is enabled and is preferably using a setting related to one of the following: "Windows; or Windows 8; or Windows 8 WHQL; or Windows 10; or Windows 10 WHQL". Only use "Other OS" if you need to.
- Once you have reinstalled Windows, open "msinfo32" from the search bar. The BIOS Mode listing should report "UEFI". The Secure Boot State listing should report "On".
Congratulations—your computer should now be a little more resilient to malware (and hopefully compatible with Windows 11!).
Even if you use the old media creation tool you will still get the latest version of Windows 10 (21H1).
Here's a direct link to the 20H2 en-us x64 iso: https://software-download.microsoft.com/db/Win10_20H2_v2_English_x64.iso?t=0cae4c83-b6f8-4d0f-86e7-54b22403aa35&e=1622070192&h=e9f25c0c301777c3c4e06255ee6359b2
It will expire in 24 hours. You can create a new link using this site: https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php
To "burn" it to a USB flash drive use Rufus.
- Any reason you're using an old version of Rufus rather than the latest (which is version 3.14)?
- You might want to zero your drive for a while to remove the partition table, using
Alt-Zin Rufus, and then try again.
Rufus is available for Windows Vista: Rufus Downloads
Exact download link: rufus-2.18.exe
Rufus is a bit tricky, but if you are careful you can get it to work.
At the moment before the USB flash begins, newer Rufus versions will ask you to chose between ISO mode and DD mode. Choose DD mode.
Yes, get the most recent version from Microsoft.
You can also use Rufus to download the ISO and create a bootable flash drive to install Windows. Be sure to format the flash drive to FAT32 first.
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You can already do this on almost all linux distros worth using. You can also do it on a windows box using Rufus.
There is zero reason to use whatever this is. It's snake oil.
Try accessing it buy booting into a Linux live CD. Sometimes this is the best way to access bad drives.
- Download a Linux live CD distribution, like Mint.
- Using Rufus, mount the Linux ISO onto an empty flash drive.
- Restart your computer and enter boot manager and select the flash drive with Linux
- When prompted, select Live CD or something similar
- Once you get to a desktop screen, you can try to pull up damaged drive in the file explorer, or open an application called gparted that you can use for data rescue
The USB is a form of installation media. It is not possible, at least to my knowledge while being on Windows to install another operating system with no form of installation media. The virtual machine just simulates an OS and isn't actually meant to replace your daily operating system. To do this you will either need a 4gb USB/flash drive, or a CD/DVD and a r/w drive.
Since you are currently on windows:
Download the proper .iso for your distribution of choice. You said Ubuntu so go here and download the LTS version as you are a beginner.
Download a burning utility, i recommend Rufus if you are going to use a USB which you can get here.
Fire up Rufus, select the USB you want to burn to, and select the Ubuntu iso you downloaded.
After that, select boot mode: freeDOS and keep all other options default, proceed to burn, it will fly up with an error about additional files, hit yes.
After that simply boot into the USB and follow the instructions to your choosing.
If you wish to use a disc instead of a USB to burn it, just use a differently utility to burn to a disc.
If you do delete your Windows installation, make sure all important data is backed up beforehand using a utility that works on Linux as well, like Dropbox. or with something like an external hdd.
My personal recommendation if you are still adamant about Ubuntu, especially after the recent breach of their git, I recommend Pop!_OS to beginners. It's much faster.
I also implore you to research what you're going to be doing on Linux, there can be a learning curve with a lot of things that requires no effort on Windows, and that goes for any distribution so it's best to know what you're in for.
Be careful. I found Win2USB to be very unstable, and if it fails once, it will be impossible to get it to work again without doing a full rewrite of the SSD from MacOS. I recommend Rufus which will erase and reformat for you. Just make sure you use a Windows To Go installation. Other than that, it should work similarly.
Also note that while MacOS can read NTFS, it can’t write to it, so to move something back to Windows from MacOS you’ll either need ExFAT formatted external storage or to keep or reinstall the Windows VM on your computer.
You need to repair your boot files through Windows Vista media. Choose repair your computer upon boot from thr DVD/USB created and then startup repair.
Windows Vista 32 & 64 bit ISO is here
You can create a bootable DVD/USB using the above ISO through https://rufus.ie
Rufus developer here.
The latest Rufus (v3.0) has a known issue with Manjaro ISOs, when written in ISO-mode, that will be fixed in the next version.
In the meantime, you can either:
- Use Rufus 2.18.
- Write the ISO in
DD-mode, which is what Rufus explicitly advises you to do with an ISOHybrid image if you find that the USB cannot boot after writing it inISO-mode.
This seems way more complicated than what I did. I just used the rufus GUI to flash a 'windows to go' iso to the expansion card. Took 5 minutes and am up and running with windows 11.
Windows iso: https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11 Rufus: https://rufus.ie/en/
Open rufus, select usb module, select windows iso, select 'windows to go' from images options, hit start. Put module back in framework and boot.
- I'd install your old ram into your system so you can get to your desktop.
- then you can download memtest86 here. You should have a .iso file (I'd save it to your desktop to make it easier)
- You'll need a tool called rufus to make a bootable USB from the .iso you downloaded. You can get it here. (also save this to your desktop for easy use)
- Put your USB flash drive into your PC and open rufus.
- In the first box labeled "Device" select your USB.
- Click where it says "SELECT" and navigate to the .iso file
- You don't need to pay attention to any other settings, just click "START" and it will make your USB bootable. By the way, this WILL WIPE EVERYTHING ON THE USB. So make sure you don't have anything you want on there.
- restart your PC and enter the BIOS.
- Change your boot device to your USB (the way to find this setting varies between Mobo makers, so just dig a bit or look it up to find it).
- Save your changes and restart.
- You should now be in MemTest86, select (S)tart Test to begin your test.
- Now just wait and see if any errors come up.
- When you are done you can restart your PC and change the boot device back to the Drive with your operating system.
if you need a more in-depth guide this one by toms hardware is pretty good, just scroll down to get to the Memtes86 section.
- Get a bootable antivirus ISO
- Burn it to a USB with Rufus
- Boot from the USB and scan/clean
If you can't do this on another computer, then try and time it so the attacker is unlikely to be able to see you downloading/creating the USB, otherwise he might just try and do some damage before you kick him out.
As others have said:
Change your Passwords
Change your Router Password
Apply all Windows and Application Patches
Update your Router Firmware
Once this is done, apply Two-factor authentication on every account you can
Try making your boot USB drive with Rufus.
If you're not setup for a UEFI only boot, you should make the changes to your BIOS to boot UEFI only without CSM support.
In Rufus, make your boot media using a GPT partition scheme, not MBR. If asked to write the boot disk in ISO or Direct Disk mode, choose Direct Disk.
I agree, vms are awesome. Just note that depending on your hardware, the virtual machine may lag or be a little janky. Virtualbox has some extra options to help.
If you want to get the "full experience" of your hardware, make a liveusb of the distro you want to try, and boot your computer from it. Use rufus to make the usb.
Upgrading GPUs is simple. Just gotta make sure it fits the case you're building in and will not require a larger PSU.
Used parts are always an option. When it comes to GPUs, though, you just gotta try to verify where it's coming from. You don't really want a card that's been put through the ringer on a heavy OC bench chasing records, nor one that's been sitting in a mining farm for a long while.
1080 is better than a 1060, so that'd be a downgrade. it's still viable at 1080p, though, for many games.
Making a USB installer drive for Win10 is super simple.
I prefer to use Rufus (https://rufus.ie) to make them as it's a single program that can download the ISO (directly from MS), and create the installer on the drive for you.
Usually Amazon is pretty reputable. If you had said wish.com or "some chinese seller on ebay" I'd be concerned about a counterfeit drive.
Try having the windows installer tool download an ISO for you, instead of setting up the USB drive. Once you have the iso, use rufus to "burn" the ISO to a USB stick.
For whatever reason, I've had success with that when microsoft's own tool fails to work.
When you format the drive, it will also delete all it's contents. If you don't know how to format it properly, a good user-friendly tool is Rufus. Just remember to make a backup of those files/folders, if they're important to you.
Download an official Windows 10 ISO, put it on a USB drive with Rufus. Boot into the USB drive with the ISO to repair your Windows installation. If it is unable to repair you can just use that same ISO to reinstall Windows entirely. I have destroyed my boot partition or Windows itself many times, it's really not even worth mentioning or worrying about. You should always have a USB drive with Windows on it to repair or reinstall at times like this.
And no, your hardware is not damaged.
You can't just copy the contents of the ISO file to the USB stick, you have to make the USB stick bootable as well.
Normally, you'd do this with something like Rufus, but I'm not sure if that works on a Mac. If it doesn't then you need to find something similar that does run on a Mac.
It might be easier just to find someone with a PC and run the Media Creation Tool on their PC to create the USB stick that you can then use on your new build.
Good luck!
Fijate si bootea al BIOS, si hace eso, entonces el hardware en general estaría bien (salvo el disco porque hasta ahí no lo testeaste).
Para lo siguiente vas a necesitar:
- Un pendrive, para hacer booteable
- Un disco externo u otro pendrive con capacidad media a alta (8-32GB, más mejor), para hacer backup
Acto seguido, tratá de meter un booteable con alguna distro de Linux (usando Rufus o Fedora Media Writer) y ver si el disco aparece y se ve bien (usando utilidades como GNOME Disks o GParted podés chequear el estado de SMART e incluso hay algunas distros con programas para testeo de discos).
Si podés ver los archivos, y tenés algún otro medio (algún disco externo) para copiarlos, hacete un backup (ojo si hablás de malware, podés tener alguno de tus archivos infectados).
Luego con un USB de Windows 10 (si es lo que llevaba), reinstalar Windows, formateando todo (acordate de sacar el disco externo o demás pendrives que uses para el backup de manera de no confundirte). El USB de Windows lo podés generar usando Windows Media Creation Tool.
Idealmente deberías tener backups, y sino podés hacerlo de la manera que dije arriba.
Si el disco no aparece bien, ya tenés un problema de hardware.
Y bueno, si ni siquiera llega al BIOS, el problema de hardware puede estar en algún otro lado también.
A few things here(I'm not a pro at all, just learning about this stuff so feel free for others to correct me)
-Is the thumb drive flashed to boot into an OS?
If you just downloaded an ISO file of Kali Linux and dragged it onto the thumb drive and then immediately attempted to boot from it, and it gave you that message, lookup how to make a bootable linux flash drive in rufus or another software.
-It looks like windows is possibly trying to do a PXE boot?
I could be wrong, but it looks like your PC was attempting to boot over your network instead of from the thumb drive. Reboot your PC into BIOS (hit F1, F2, F12 or DEL keys depending on your mainboard as it's powering on) and when you load into BIOS find your boot order and make sure that your USB thumb drive is listed as a bootable device. If you don't see it then you need to make sure you have the drive flashed to boot into an ISO using rufus as I stated before. If you do see the flash drive listed and it's not the first option in your boot priority list, make sure to change it so it is.
-Could be other possibilities as well just my 2 cents. Those are pretty basic fixes, but just thought maybe I'd help with what I knew.
I'm pretty sure there not broken, use diskpart in cmd And use that tool to wipe the usb and try again.
Sometimes you need to use a different partition table on the usb stick.
Main ones are GPT and MBR try both.
Use https://rufus.ie/ to write the disk image to the USB stick. Use Rufus if your installing windows.
You can use Rufus or Unetbootin for linux http://unetbootin.github.io/. - try Rufus first.
Remember to change some settings in the bios to allow it to boot from the USB stick.
I usually allow legacy and UEFI boot and turn secure boot off. And change the boot order
I'm not an expert but iv done this to probably 30+ pc
Get a Windows ISO
On another PC, download Windows Creation Tool. Run it to create a bootable image onto a USB drive. You could also just download the ISO and use Rufus to burn it on the USB stick.
OR you could purchase a USB stick with Windows on it and ready to go.
Install
Insert the USB stick into your PC while it's off.
Power on, and press whatever keys (like ESC or F1) that will get you into boot manager.
Select the USB stick as the boot device.
Windows will load and walk you through the installation process.
This is by far the best tool I have come across for making bootable media. The only negative is it will only work on a Windows host, but I have used it to make boot media for practically everything under the sun; Linux, ESXi, pfSense, Proxmox, Windows, etc.
It doesn't get installed, just run it.
I even use Rufu to make a Windows to Go USB stick. Think Linux LiveCD on a USB stick but for Windows. Excellent for updating firmware on Linux machines that come from the OEM as Windows only installers/packages. Boot to Windows on the stick, update firmware, reboot back to your Linux install untouched.
As others have said, Etcher never worked for me on any host, for any OS media and is a piece of garbage now (maybe it was better when it first came out)
> POP OS
Go to the website, find the download link, it will download a fairly massive ISO file, this contains the operating system. You will also need to download a tool like Rufus in order to put that OS onto a flash drive. Plug in a flash drive you don't need, run Rufus, select your flash drive and the ISO file in Rufus and let it run.
If you are installing alongside windows on a computer, you will also need to free up some space for Linux itself. Skip this step if you are overwriting windows/don't even have windows installed. Go to disk management in windows, find your C volume, right click and click shrink, then shink it, I would recommend at least 20 GB of space plus the size of your RAM.
After that shut down the computer, plug in the drive, turn it on and spam F2 and/or delete to enter bios, change the boot order in bios to boot the flash drive, leave bios and then you should be prompted with an installer which will guide you through the rest.
Here ur solution: https://www.hirensbootcd.org/
- Download the ISO
- Burn to a USB drive using https://rufus.ie/
- Boot from the USB
- Use the password software to change the password.
Go to www.hirensbootcd.org/howtos/. For information on resetting the windows password.
-Victor
Here ur solution: https://www.hirensbootcd.org/
- Download the ISO
- Burn to a USB drive using https://rufus.ie/
- Boot from the USB
- Use the password software to change the password.
Go to www.hirensbootcd.org/howtos/. For information on resetting the windows password.
-Victor
As my fellow commenter said, burn the ISO onto a CD or make a bootable USB with Rufus. Then make sure that the boot order is changed so that the computer boots from the CD/USB first instead of your harddrive.
If you encouter any further problems or have more questions, you can PM me if you want.
I recommend Linux Mint XFCE edition; it works amazing well on low powered machines.
When you want to download Linux Mint, you'll get 3 options, choose the XFCE edition.
Linux Mint DOES support UEFI. Are you sure you burnt the ISO properly to your USB thumb drive? Use a program called Rufus to burn the ISO.
Do not burn the ISO to a DVD; burn it to an empty USB thumb drive instead. If you burn it to a DVD, you won't be able to boot in UEFI mode.
When you burn the ISO file to your thumb drive, reboot your computer and access the boot menu (it differs from computer to computer which key you need to press at startup to access the boot menu). Google your laptop model to find out if it is not written which key you need to press.
In the boot menu, you might either find two options to boot the USB; either in UEFI mode or legacy mode. On some laptops, you'll only see the option to boot in UEFI mode.
Linux is definitely a safe choice, I recommend Lubuntu personally as it is super Windows-ish. You can download it from here
And can use Rufus to make it into a bootable USB installer.
A great way to find out how well Manjaro handles your system is to download an ISO and burn it to a USB stick and then boot from it. If your wifi, graphics, and such work from the ISO, they'll work from an installation.
I would advise you to install Manjaro in something like Virtualbox before you try it for real. That way if you mess up, you're not losing anything.
Backup any data you care about, including windows unless you're ok with reinstalling from scratch.
Rufus is an excellent way to make the USB. When you tell it to make one, it will ask you if you want to do so in DD or ISO mode. For Manjaro, choose DD. It's a long story. You can also use balenaEtcher.
If you can, put Manjaro on a completely separate disk with its own EFI boot partition/MBR In the past, Windows has deleted files needed for Linux to boot when upgrading.
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Good luck!
I’m assuming you’re going to use a USB flash drive instead of DVD and are currently using Windows.
Download Rufus: https://rufus.ie Download Linux Mint, start with 64-bit Cinnamon or MATE: https://linuxmint.com/download.php
Run through the steps here and boot to the USB: https://www.fosslinux.com/274/how-to-create-linux-mint-live-usb-drive-on-windows.htm
I recommend trying the Live USB prior to running the install from the desktop to ensure you like it first, and everything works. Then watch videos from that Live USB to see how to install from there.
First of, yes, this is likely because of the SD card. USB drives can pretend to be DVD drives, and that's how most disks get booted. Use a program like Rufus to create such an USB.
Second, you'll likely have to do something in the boot menu to select the USB. During startup (first 5 seconds), spam ESC, F12 and/or F9 to enter the boot menu and selection screen.
This tutorial should help you, as it also explains the boot step:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/08/29/beginners-guide-how-to-install-ubuntu-linux/
Follow up question, does your laptop have a NVidia GPU?
A 4 GB pendrive is just enough for Windows 10 (with only like 75 MB free space remaining). Download a Windows iso with the Media Creation Tool and use Rufus to extract it to the pendrive.
There will be two firmware versions you can choose from in the downloaded file.
When you "change" to IT mode, you are just flashing the IT mode firmware instead of IR.
Your card is at: https://www.broadcom.com/products/storage/host-bus-adapters/sas-9207-4i4e#downloads
While there are installers you can run in windows or linux I would highly suggest using the dos bootdisk version. The thought of updating the firmware while a operating system can access the disks has just always scared me.
If you have not created a dos usb before, RUFUS makes it very easy.
Bare for at yde et alternativ til de eksisterende forslag, så kan du også kigge på Rufus hvis du har din .ISO fil. Den har jeg selv brugt gennem mange år. Der vælger du bare ISO filen og trykker start;
Download Rufus - https://rufus.ie/en_IE.html
Download a Windows 7 iso - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows7
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB drive. Insert it, restart netbook, and it should boot into the Win7 installer. Just wipe/format the HD when you get to that point and do a clean install. If it won't autoboot, figure out what F key is needed to be pressed during the BIOS bootup (black screen/white text) to select boot device. Usually F12 or F10 etc.
Rufus developer here. As others have pointed out the .appx is the Windows App Store version, which, of course, is not compatible with Vista.
What you need to download is rufus-2.18.exe from https://rufus.ie/downloads/.
Please make sure you pay attention to the extension before downloading anything. If it doesn't end with .exe or says arm anywhere, this is not what you want.
And, indeed, 2.18 is the last version of Rufus that is compatible with Windows Vista.
But why does he need it in the first place? He said he already moved the important files over from the original hdd?
Going off the wording of the OP, it sounds like there are 3 different drives he’s using. 1-his friends hdd that needed to get pictures/files off, then reformat. 2-his drive in his PC being used to store his friends files temporarily while he reformats drive 1. And drive 3- a friends external drive used for Xbox storage. If my understanding is correct, drive 3 is unnecessary and he doesn’t need to bother reformatting it so that he can use it to store personal files in case “something happens during the process”.
It sounds like he has already moved his friends personal files onto his own disk (2), and he just needs to reformat disk 1. As long as you don’t touch disk 2 in disk management, you won’t have any issues. And if you want more formatting options than disk management provides for disk 1, you can use a program called Rufus. Like I said, just make sure you’re selecting disk 1 when you format and you’ll be just fine.
Get a usb stick.
Download manjaro kde https://manjaro.org/download/
Download rufus https://rufus.ie/en/
Burn manjaro kde to the usb stick
Reboot
Boot from that usb stick
Delete that fucking broken glass os
And
Install manjaro
I recommend starting from zero, making sure everything is set right.
I'm assuming you want to install Windows on the SN 750 NVMe SSD.
First, make sure CSM is disabled, you can't boot from an NVMe drive like the SN 750 with CSM enabled.
Use a USB stick created with Rufus and make sure it's set to boot with UEFI mode.
Disconnect all other drives other than your Windows target drive and USB stick.
Boot into the Setup and press shift + F10, a command prompt should appear. Enter the command "diskpart". In diskpart enter the command "list disk" and note the number of your NVMe SSD. Type "select disk {number you found}", so for example "select disk 1". Enter the command "clear", this will erase all data on the drive. Next enter the command "exit" twice to exit out of diskpart and close the command prompt. Resume the Setup as normal. Do not create any partitions, just point the setup at the empty SSD and let it do its own thing.
If you have access to another pc, access to Microsoft ISO Download page and download the win 10 iso. Then, use a tool to make a bootable device (best 2 I know are BalenaEtcher and Rufus) and a usb with at least 8 gig I would say (CAREFUL WITH THIS STEP BECAUSE IT WILL ERASE EVERYTHING ON THIS USB, SO MAKE A BACKUP OF YOUR FILES).
After you did that, plug the usb in your pc and turn it on. Access the bios by pressing f10, f2, f1 (or whatever key is) before it boots in your hard drive and change the boot order to your usb. After that, save changes and you should be booting into the win 10 installation.
First you grab Rufus
Then you grab the lubuntu iso
Then you configure Rufus to look like this. You have to select your flash drive as DEVICE and the lubuntu iso as BOOT SELECTION, the rest should be as on the picture except for the VOLUME LABEL. It can be anything .
Press START
Then you wait.
Now try booting from that flash drive
Ein paar Korrekturen:
Dein PC hat kein BIOS. (U)EFI ist der BIOS Nachfolger seit über einem Jahrzehnt.
Bei dem Bootkram hat man meist sowas wie "UEFI" und "Legacy" als Optionen, was in der Regel bedeutet das man bei UEFI das moderne GPT Partitionsschema verwendet und bei Legacy das alte MBR. Die sind nicht austauschbar.
Was ich machen würde: statt dem Media creation ding einfach Rufus benutzen und sicherstellen dass das auch alles schön mit GPT ist, da muss man nix fummeln.
TLDR: yes
Steps you are likely to follow:
- Download a iso for Distro of your choice (putting a a little time searching about various distros suitable to your need is good )
- Burn the iso on usb using (rufus , balena etcher) <-- Now you have the live usb
- Boot from the live usb and try it in live mode on your hardware to insure "stuff just works"
- you can start the installer
- In general you will have two options when it comes to where to install
- Whole Disk/ clean install
- Advanced / manual partition
- You just have to choose whole disk and the selected drive will be formatted in the suitable partitioning and the installer will move forward.
- In general you will have two options when it comes to where to install
People reading this , do suggest any edits to be made .
In reference to your original question you can download rufus from here https://rufus.ie/en/ and you'll be able to create a bootable disk for any Operating system from that.
Okay.
First, go here: https://rufus.ie/en/ and download the program.
Second, go here: https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-live and download the file. Make sure it is a Live Boot image.
Third: insert a blank usb stick with at least 4GB. Preferably more.
Fourth: Run rufus.exe. choose your USB from the drop down menu. Then, in the Boot Selection field, click Select, then find the Kali Linux file you downloaded. Finally, click start at the bottom. And say yes to any prompts that come up.
Let me know when you've done that.
Use this link to download the installation file. Once the download is done, head to this link to download Rufus. Once you install it, burn the installation file to a spare USB drive, using Rufus. Then you'll have to shut down your PC and open it up again. As soon as you start up your PC click the Bios key for your PC model (search it up if you don't know what your bios key is) and boot up from the USB drive that you burned Windows to. It will load the Windows 10 setup afterwards and you can choose to install both Windows 8 and Windows 10 or just to install Windows 10 in place of Windows 8. If you chose the second method, note that you'll lose all your files so back them up if you have anything important.
That's just it... That "Reset this PC" option isn't formatting anything.
To properly format and perform a clean install of Windows:
- Get a 8GB USB drive (at least 8GB - they're cheap)
- Download Rufus portable from the official site (https://rufus.ie)
- Open it and make sure your USB drive has loaded in. It'll appear at the top under Device:
- The SELECT button should have a little arrow next to it. Click that and switch to DOWNLOAD.
- When the download is complete, click that arrow again and go SELECT
- Selec that new .ISO you downloaded
- Select your Target System: Probably UEFI unless it's a really old PC
- Start
At this point, Rufus will wipe the usb drive and setup the drive to be bootable, then move over the WIndows installer files.
Once this completes, you can plug it into the system and boot from that USB drive.
Since you did this once, you now have a reusable drive to clean install (or repair) Windows on any UEFI machine. The only caveat is that version you're downloading today will always be that version. So, to upgrade the version to a new build or to something like Win11, you'll have to restart this process from the top and download the newer build.
I recommend creating an installation medium from an ISO image with Rufus, then you can ensure it's pure UEFI.
It's also important to ensure your NVMe drive is initialized with GPT partitioning. If it's MBR for some reason then it won't boot. NVMe drives can only be booted in UEFI mode (with GPT partitioning).
You’ve not stated which OS you are trying to install or how you created the USB drive. If it were me, I would use Rufus to create a USB drive for BIOS. Lots of videos on YouTube and guides online on how to do this.
use rufus https://rufus.ie/en_US/
i have used it in windows for years with no issues. get the ubuntu iso you want and make sure the usb drive you use has nothing important on it
Use another computer to create your bootable USB with the Media Creation Tool and boot directly to it on the affected system. If you have issues with the Media Creation Tool actually making the USB, choose the option to download the ISO and then use Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en_US/) to create the bootable drive. The current OS doesn't make a difference with regards to boot options, so you should be able to either enter BIOS and modify the boot order to USB first "or" (if it gives you the prompt to do so) enter the boot menu and select to boot to said USB.
- No. You must wait a long time to decrypt your files.
-3. It will. Download from https://tb.rg-adguard.net/public.php then burn it to Bluray or flash it to USB Flash Disk using Rufus ( https://rufus.ie/ ). No, it won't affect your new Windows if you full-format your drive.
Download this https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO
into your pendrive (select the correct version you want). Make sure you don't have anything in it you want. Make a full backup if you don't have spare pendrive, the pendrive will be wiped.
Use Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/ to make the pendrive a bootable one. (You can find more info online)
Then plug the pendrive into your PC and go into your BIOS to set it to boot from the usb device first.
Then it should show a windows logo when you boot and you should be able to start installing after it loads.
For the windows activation part, I'm not that sure. But I think it should still auto activate.
> I card won't even show up on my computer now when I plug it in.
Because it's been formatted by iTunes. Go to Computer Management > Disk Management, find your card there, delete all partitions manually and create new FAT32 partition. Or you can use free program called Rufus. It can easily format a card from iPod, just choose Non bootable in Boot selection dropdown list.
Download this https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO
into your pendrive (select the correct version you want). Make sure you don't have anything in it you want. Make a full backup if you don't have spare pendrive, the pendrive will be wiped.
Use Rufus https://rufus.ie/en/ to make the pendrive a bootable one. (You can find more info online)
Then plug the pendrive into your PC and go into your BIOS to set it to boot from the usb device first.
Then it should show a windows logo when you boot and you should be able to start installing after it loads.
Certainly you can format that SSD. You can download Windows 10 and create a bootable flash drive with Rufus. Boot into BIOS/UEFI and turn off secure boot, then set to boot from USB. Windows setup can format the whole drive.
You need a working pc to make it, and a USB 4gb or more.
Remove all the data off the USB because it gets formatted in the process.
Download Rufus
And a Linux ISO. I personally prefer mint just because the menus function similar to windows, so it's easy to use for people who aren't used to linux.
Rufus will make a bootable 'live' version of mint on the usb, then plug the usb into the pc and go into BIOS and manually select to boot from the USB. it'll load the OS up and you can do things like make sure your sound works, maybe youtube a few vids. If that all performs as expected then it's likely a drive issue which means you would need to redo the windows installation.
The usb stick has to have FAT32 format. Windows often messed this up, so use rufus.ie to format and test your stick for errors.
As the website says, you can't update from 1.x to 3.x, so you have to ask how to do it the correct way. Maby you have to load a special updater first. Haven't seen instructions for that anywhere. I got mine with a 2.x version.
https://www.memtest86.com/ You need like a 1gb USB drive.
Point Rufus to the Memtest ISO you extracted.
Make sure Rufus is pointed to the USB drive. Double check don't wipe a hard drive.
Make the USB
Reboot to USB
Run tests.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean by a Win10 driver but what you need is to download a windows 10 ISO, you can find one from Microsoft’s official site (link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10ISO) then use an application like Rufus (https://rufus.ie/en/) to burn the ISO image to the usb so it becomes a bootable device.
Then boot off of it and install Win10 to your new SSD as normal.
Assuming the drive is there and working, I suspect the issue comes from an "incompatibility" between your USB installer and the way the SSD is configured. Say your installer looks for MBR drives while the SSD is by default initialized in GPT (or the reverse).
When you said that you had used the command prompt, you used diskpart right ? And it listed no drive either ?
I suggest that you try re-creating the USB installer, but this time proceed differently :
- Use the Creation Tool to simply download a Windows image in .ISO : at this step, select ISO file.
- Use Rufus to make a bootable installer out of that Windows image.
Make sure that "Partition Scheme" is set on "GPT".
EDIT : as for where to look in the BIOS to check if the drive is recognized, I couldn't tell you as I haven't got a clue what the HP BIOS looks like those days.
I would look under a "boot" menu, which would at least list the possible boot peripherals detected. It might be elsewhere though.
Igual el formato NTFS o FAT32 solo importa si lo estas haciendo vos al proceso de armar un pendrive de forma manual usando una herramienta como RUFUS (https://rufus.ie/) con un iso que tengas vos (Como lo consigas al iso depende de vos). La herramienta oficial de WIN 10 te lo va a formatear como le parezca asique no cambia nada que lo formatees en FAT32 u otro.
i) if you are concerned about replicating your hdd then clone your hdd to the ssd using cloning software (you would still be left with same win7 and may need to upgrade to win10 later).
ii) if you want to go with a new and fresh installation of windows 10 then start the process by booting the os from the pendrive via the Boot Menu.
As i dont find your pendrive listed in the boot options menu, i dont think it was set to be bootable mode. You could use a tool like Rufus to create a bootable pendrive using the iso file you have. The pendrive may then be listed for you to proceed with..
It's possible that either the USB drive or the SSD are faulty. The USB drive might also simply be corrupted.
I would recommend to re-create the Windows installer. Download the Windows ISO with the Microsoft Creation Tool (just the iso, don't create the installer with it) and then use Rufus to create the installer with this ISO file.
If possible, try on another USB drive than the one you've been using so far.
If you have another machine at your disposal, you can also try to plug the SSD there and test the drive with a compatible utility for it (depends on the brand), or a brand-agnostic tool like Crystal Disk Info.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
Also get Rufus (https://rufus.ie/) to create the bootable USB with the install media.
Note the USB will need to be min 8GB, and will be wiped in the process.
If you have another desktop you could connect the SSD from yours as a slave, and backup your stuff to the other machine
Either way: use
https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10
Make an ISO fiel for Windwos 10 64 bit
Then use RUFUS
Make a USB an installer ( THIS WIPES THE USB SO BE ADVISED )
If you have no backup yet, you can make a parallel install of Windows, and get access to your stuff
If you have made a backup, you can wipe the partitions and do a completely clean install
One thing I had to do, for the Windows 10 install via USB, is to have the Windows Media Creation tool create an ISO. Saved it on the desktop, then used Rufus to create the bootable USB drive. Not sure why the Creation tool didn't work right for me, but had to do it this way for it to boot.
Easiest way is likely with Rufus: https://rufus.ie/
While it's generally just an ISO writing tool, they do have a 'download' option with links to most major OS's and revisions and 1709 is on there.
However, be aware. 1709 is out of it's support window and is no longer getting security updates. It is not safe to continue using if you plan to have it connected to the internet.
Yeah, I personally think about Neo from the start of the first Matrix, since I've made a lot of tech-illiterate friends via helping them get stuff in exchange for drives.
Would probably depend on how much of a geek they are. I personally have a stash of OS usbs for repairs and stuff, but I think I'd be the only one who'd care to have it.
You can use Rufus to make bootable USBs easily. I've used it a few times.
If I was going to give it to non-geek friends, I'd probably include instructions on a printout. Maybe even laminate it? Something like Ubuntu's instructions. Simple OS for people with basic computer knowledge, just plug the USB in and power on. Takes only 2.3 GB, so that gives you 29.7 GB or so of room to put other things on. However, CD3WD is 25.91 GB I believe, so up to you if that's what you'd put on there.
Your computer isn't detecting any of the USB sticks? What are you using to burn the ISO to USB stick? Sounds like the app you're using is producing bad burns. I would recommend Rufus: https://rufus.ie/