Urgent help needed

[Billy_Mays]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Fine, skip the bios update. go into bios and set everything to default and save.

Try to boot from a windows DVD and use a optical drive not a USB.

That I don't have I only have a USB installer

[NumLock21]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

That I don't have I only have a USB installer

what Os are you trying to install. And do you have a optical drive as well as a blank DVD

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

what Os are you trying to install. And do you have a optical drive as well as a blank DVD

Windows 10 and I might have a blank CD

[NumLock21]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Windows 10 and I might have a blank CD

Do you have a DVD drive?

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Do you have a DVD drive?

Yes both on laptop and desktop

[Billy_Mays]

5 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

what Os are you trying to install. And do you have a optical drive as well as a blank DVD

I have no blank CDs at all

[NumLock21]

15 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I have no blank CDs at all

Okay then...

Download and run Microsoft Windows 10 download tool. Now here are two options to try out.

 

Option 1:

Select USB and proceed to download the OS, when it's done it will prompt for USB flash drive. Plug in flash drive and the setup wizard, will create a official one for you that will work with both UEFI and legacy bios systems.

 

Option 2:

Download the ISO type of the OS and mount the ISO image.

Plug in USB drive and open cmd with admin

type in the following commands, follow by enter key

diskpart

list disk

select disk #

clean

create partition primary

format fs=ntfs quick

select partition 1

assign letter = $

active

exit

 

Close off CMD. Now go to the mounted ISO image and copy everything from that into the USB flash drive. When done, restart and you'll be able to boot from it to install the OS. This will only work with boot drives smaller than 2TB because it will not format it as GPT which is need for HDD larger than 2TB.

I see you tried rufus, therefore you must have the win10 iso downloaded already? Then do option 2 first.

 

# = the usb flash drive you want to use for the setup file

$ = any free drive letter from your computer

Also go into bios and reset everything back to defaults and save.

 

[Billy_Mays]

22 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Okay then...

Download and run Microsoft Windows 10 download tool. Now here are two options to try out.

 

Option 1:

Select USB and proceed to download the OS, when it's done it will prompt for USB flash drive. Plug in flash drive and the setup wizard, will create a official one for you that will work with both UEFI and legacy bios systems.

 

Option 2:

Download the ISO type of the OS and mount the ISO image.

Plug in USB drive and open cmd with admin

type in the following commands, follow by enter key

diskpart

list disk

select disk #

clean

create partition primary

format fs=ntfs quick

select partition 1

assign letter = $

active

exit

 

Close off CMD. Now go to the mounted ISO image and copy everything from that into the USB flash drive. When done, restart and you'll be able to boot from it to install the OS. This will only work with boot drives smaller than 2TB because it will not format it as GPT which is need for HDD larger than 2TB.

I see you tried rufus, therefore you must have the win10 iso downloaded already? Then do option 2 first.

 

# = the usb flash drive you want to use for the setup file

$ = any free drive letter from your computer

Also go into bios and reset everything back to defaults and save.

 

I'm trying option 2 right now

 

Why does Windows take so long to download

[NumLock21]

19 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I'm trying option 2 right now

 

Why does Windows take so long to download

Slow internet. Anyway it's a large file.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

Slow internet. Anyway it's a large file.

My internet isn't slow it can handle 7 people on it and I get ~65 ping 

[Billy_Mays]

43 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Slow internet. Anyway it's a large file.

The Dock I have disconnected the USB drive and I have to restart again/selected wrong stick

 

But I have a ISO on another USB stick without the bootable Media helper thing

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

The Dock I have disconnected the USB drive and I have to restart again

 

But I have a ISO on another USB stick without the bootable Media helper thing

Run option 2, exactly as it says. The win10 iso has to be from microsoft. If it is, then mount that and than copy the contents that's inside to the USB flash drive.

[Billy_Mays]

44 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Run option 2, exactly as it says. The win10 iso has to be from microsoft. If it is, then mount that and than copy the contents that's inside to the USB flash drive.

Yep it is and it's in the middle of downloading rn

 

Done but need to do stuff other than get my PC going

[Billy_Mays]

1 hour ago, NumLock21 said:

Run option 2, exactly as it says. The win10 iso has to be from microsoft. If it is, then mount that and than copy the contents that's inside to the USB flash drive.

Won't work I need to uninstall the existing windows copy but idk how to 

[NumLock21]

3 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Won't work I need to uninstall the existing windows copy but idk how to 

The drive is prepared on your working laptop or desktop.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

The drive is prepared on your working laptop or desktop.

The drive that I was attempting to install windows on is in my desktop and I don't have a drive docking bay of any kind 

[NumLock21]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

The drive that I was attempting to install windows on is in my desktop and I don't have a drive docking bay of any kind 

All sata are the same

[Billy_Mays]

8 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

All sata are the same

Yes but my laptop can only support 2.5" and the drive I have is 3.5" and I tried taking apart my laptop and it was ridiculously hard 

 

Ifixit doesn't have anything on my laptop

 

I freaking had it that it showed the windows 7 loading thing but then it went back to system recovery options twice now 

[Billy_Mays]

46 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

All sata are the same

Got my laptop apart the HDD from it is the boot drive run in desktop 

[NumLock21]

46 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Got my laptop apart the HDD from it is the boot drive run in desktop 

Why? You can create the windows usb straight from your laptop.

[Billy_Mays]

23 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Why? You can create the windows usb straight from your laptop.

No it's the boot drive 

[NumLock21]

59 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

No it's the boot drive 

Your not installing into your laptop. You're using your laptop to help you download the win10 iso then create the usb via option 2 and then use the usb to install win10 to that used motherboard.