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Hi guys,

 

I am having a little trouble installing windows on my new pc. What I have done is download the .iso off of the microsoft website and bought a key for it. I have used etcher (mac) to make my usb drive a bootable drive however when I plug my usb key into my pc, it goes straight to the BIOS. I can see my drives and the USB key is detected as a drive so what I did was pressed F8 to boot my computer from the USB however it still goes straight to the BIOS.

 

Does it have to do with me using a mac to create the usb drive bootable? 

 

Thanks

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16 minutes ago, Ahridesus said:

Hi guys,

 

I am having a little trouble installing windows on my new pc. What I have done is download the .iso off of the microsoft website and bought a key for it. I have used etcher (mac) to make my usb drive a bootable drive however when I plug my usb key into my pc, it goes straight to the BIOS. I can see my drives and the USB key is detected as a drive so what I did was pressed F8 to boot my computer from the USB however it still goes straight to the BIOS.

 

Does it have to do with me using a mac to create the usb drive bootable? 

 

Thanks

AFAIK you need a PC to create the Windows installation media.

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

Try using dd in the mac to make the usb stick(dd is in the terminal)

Yeah I tried that too. Doesn't work. I'll try and figure out a way to do it on windows.

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1 minute ago, Ahridesus said:

Yeah I tried that too. Doesn't work. I'll try and figure out a way to do it on windows.

Why are you using Windows 8.1 out of curiosity?

 

This would be much simpler with Windows 10.

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Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

rufus on windows works well.

You don't really need rufus.

 

Just grab an ISO. Copy it to a USB and extacting the ISO manually works as well.

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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

Why are you using Windows 8.1 out of curiosity?

 

This would be much simpler with Windows 10?

I'm a stickler for privacy. Even though windows 7 is the most private. I think I can deal with windows 8. Might upgrade in the future However.

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1 minute ago, AluminiumTech said:

You don't really need rufus.

 

Just grab an ISO. Copy it to a USB and extacting the ISO manually works as well.

So what I would do is open the .iso file on my mac, copy all the files on that .iso onto a USB?

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1 minute ago, Ahridesus said:

So what I would do is open the .iso file on my mac, copy all the files on that .iso onto a USB?

I'd recommend doing this on a PC.

 

3 minutes ago, Ahridesus said:

I'm a stickler for privacy. Even though windows 7 is the most private. I think I can deal with windows 8. Might upgrade in the future However.

Windows 8 is just as bad as Windows 10 in terms of privacy FYI.

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Just now, AluminiumTech said:

I'd recommend doing this on a PC.

 

Windows 8 is just as bad as Windows 10 in terms of privacy FYI.

You think so? Well thanks for letting me know. Unfortunately I already bought windows 8.1 but ill know for next time

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54 minutes ago, Ahridesus said:

Hi guys,

 

I am having a little trouble installing windows on my new pc. What I have done is download the .iso off of the microsoft website and bought a key for it. I have used etcher (mac) to make my usb drive a bootable drive however when I plug my usb key into my pc, it goes straight to the BIOS. I can see my drives and the USB key is detected as a drive so what I did was pressed F8 to boot my computer from the USB however it still goes straight to the BIOS.

 

Does it have to do with me using a mac to create the usb drive bootable? 

 

Thanks

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