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owenrees1
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After many hours of research into how to build and set up a pc, I have reached the (potentially) final hurdle in building my first ever computer. However, this is the place where I need your guys' help. 

I have watched tutorial after tutorial on how to do it, but the pc doesn't seem to recognize the USB boot drive (I don't have a DVD drive in my computer). 

 

Can one someone please help?

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USB 2.0,USB dongle/port? 

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Could you get a DVD drive? I recently made my frist computer. Good luck

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Could you get a DVD drive? I recently made my frist computer. Good luck

i don't have a DVD to install win8.1 on, so no

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Do you have an odd port on the front so you could install one.

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Is the USB dongle 2.0?

Is your boot priority set to Removable storage on top? 

Current system - ThinkPad Yoga 460

ExSystems

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Laptop - ASUS FX503VD

|| Case: NZXT H440 ❤️|| MB: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI || CPU: Skylake Chip || Graphics card : GTX 970 Strix || RAM: Crucial Ballistix 16GB || Storage:1TB WD+500GB WD + 120Gb HyperX savage|| Monitor: Dell U2412M+LG 24MP55HQ+Philips TV ||  PSU CX600M || 

 

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Is the USB dongle 2.0?

Is your boot priority set to Removable storage on top? 

how can you tell if it is 2.0 or 3.0?

It is set to priority boot

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Is the USB dongle 2.0?

Is your boot priority set to Removable storage on top?

Ahh good idea
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Do you have an odd port on the front so you could install one.

nope

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2.0 is black and 3.0 is blue.

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nope

Ok

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You need to go on the boot priority on the bios

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And set the USB drive as one of the first things to boot on

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And set the USB drive as one of the first things to boot on

done that

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how do you actually create the installation media, because that may be the problem

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I don't know but there how tos on YouTube

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how do you actually create the installation media, because that may be the problem

You need a genuine untouched Windows ISO. It is best to get a DVD drive, insert Windows disk inside, and make it yourself.

Once you have the ISO, you can use Microsoft own Windows ISO to USB/DVD tool (http://wudt.codeplex.com/), or Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/), to extract and transfer the ISO to your USB flash drive and make it bootable.

You can use another computer for this. But it must be running a 64-bit version of Windows, if you plan on installing Windows 64-bit on your new computer.

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You need a genuine untouched Windows ISO. It is best to get a DVD drive, insert Windows disk inside, and make it yourself.

Once you have the ISO, you can use Microsoft own Windows ISO to USB/DVD tool (http://wudt.codeplex.com/), or Rufus (https://rufus.akeo.ie/), to extract and transfer the ISO to your USB flash drive and make it bootable.

You can use another computer for this. But it must be running a 64-bit version of Windows, if you plan on installing Windows 64-bit on your new computer.

can I have a link to get an ISO pls?

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can I have a link to get an ISO pls?

Sorry, I am not going to upload a ~3GB ISO file to my server. It will take all day, as I don't have the fastest web servers. Also, the edition of Windows needs to match.

Simply use another system DVD drive to make it.

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