the usb this must be the cause, try also the tool of Microsoft, yumi, otea different version of Rufus.
I also tried multiple USB sticks. One of them had been working fine with a version of 10 from 2015 on it. I just wanted a more up to date USB, now I seem to be screwed...
I did a full format on one of the USBs and then Windows Media Creator worked. I'll see if it works on the laptop in the morning.
Also check that secure boot is off.Latest RS5 win 10 x64 iso has wim file larger than 4gb so no more simple extraction of iso content to fat32 formatted usb drive without disabling secure boot.Now have to use ntfs formatted usb drive with rufus & need to turn off secure boot to make it work correctly.
It's not possible, You can't make bootable USB if You used ISO downloaded from Microsoft. They are all bootable. Another thing is, if it will boot automatically from USB or You must open boot menu and select manually USB. How to open Boot Menu Press <F12> when the Dell logo appears to initiate a one-time boot menu with a list of the valid boot devices for the computer.
or just use the mediacreation tool, and after that replace just the new ISO files if needed or google: diskpart bootable usb drive
Frankly I'm amazed to still see so often people still having trouble creating bootable USB drives. You don't need any third party applications; all you need is already included in Windows. 1) Insert the USB drive you want to use; 2) Open a command window with elevated privileges; 3) Enter DISKPART command; 4) In diskpart, enter LIST DISK command to show a list of available drives; 5) Enter SELECT DISK <n> command, where <n> is the number of your USB drive obtained by the LIST DISK command; WARNING: Make absolutely sure that you select the right drive here; the next commands will completely wipe-out this disk. 6) Enter CLEAN command; This command will completely wipe-out all drive and partition information on the currently selected drive. 7) Enter CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY command; 8) Enter ACTIVE command; 9) Enter FORMAT QUICK FS=FAT32 LABEL=<whateveryouwant> command; 10) Enter EXIT command to exit Diskpart. 11) Use the program of your choice (I use 7-zip) to open your Windows ISO file and extract its content to your USB drive. 12) Done. The above will create a bootable Windows installation USB disk that will boot both in BIOS and UEFI mode (if there is a EFI folder on the root of the drive). I've created littelaly hundreds of bootable USB drives this way, with 100% success rate on all imaginable BIOSes.
Just format the USB FAT32 and extract the iso to its root, no need to overcomplicate this. When the install.wim is over 4GB in file size, split it into multiple split wim files (.swm) or compress it to install.esd. You can use this "tool": https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...-install-esd-install-swm-creation-tool.78925/
I select USB every time, it says "non bootable device" or something like that... I am going to try the one that worked last night in a couple minutes, laptop is downstairs.
Just use your ring! Easy! ^^^ Sorry for the offtopic, but that was a good one! (imo) I used the tool Enthousiast recommended in post #11. Pretty good thing! Thanks for that!
It did work. So I guess it was the USB stick in regards to WMC, not sure whats up with Rufus, but not going to worry about it.
OK, maybe is needed to go BIOS settings (for Dell it should be F2) and turn off fast boot and UEFI if is enabled and try to boot in legacy mode. If so works, install what needed and then go back to BIOS and enable again what was disabled.
On my new server rig the Server OS was over 4.6 GB so I used a bootable flash drive I created using RUFUS & a Server .ISO, worked very good.
The whole idea with UEFI was to make booting a more streamline process. It does have an advantage over MBR not requiring a boot sector, but then it has the fat32 problem. Kind of like they only went half way with the solution. In any case that's a problem with Rufus and secure boot when selecting ntfs file system. You either have to use fat32 or use ntfs with secure boot turned off. Though from what I understand there is a new version of Rufus coming that can handle the nfts problem. There's other options though. If the wim image is over the limit (4GB), you can split it with dism and continue to use fat32. Optionally you can use ntfs by setting up a fat32 boot partition manually. My image is presently under under the limit so all I have to do is gpt partition a usb drive with fat32 and copy the files over. At some point my image will exceed limit just from integrated cumulative updates. I'll probably split the image with dism at that point and keep using fat32 for the whole lot. Would rather avoid going into the BIOS to shut off secure boot.
First RS5 official release x64 iso has wim file just a couple of MBs larger than 4gb with total iso size still around 4.6gb.