1. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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  2. yro

    yro MDL Addicted

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    dude, go for the yumi tool and select winboot for windows 7, 8 or 10 and thats all... you can even select others isos to have am multiboot pendrive.. all easy as hell on fire..
     
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  3. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    Because i can imagine all the other stuff you will encounter when re-installing windows without some basic knowledge.

    Are you planning to install another build or sku on that system? If your planning to install the same, you can use resetpc, it will reinstall your windows.
     
  4. rpo

    rpo MDL Expert

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    If you want to upgrade your system, keeping your files and applications, download the iso, right click on the file and select "mount" and finally execute setup from the virtual mounted drive.
     
  5. darren2010

    darren2010 MDL Member

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    english windows 10 consumer edition x64 for home version previous install 1903
     
  6. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    An iso will do a full inplace upgrade, taking a long time, simply downloading a tool + the 20KB update, and opening the tool, browsing to the update and hit install is to difficult.

    I give up.
     
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    darren2010 MDL Member

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    i have lots of time
     
  8. ipx

    ipx MDL Addicted

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    #6313 ipx, Oct 17, 2019
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  9. farmers

    farmers MDL Senior Member

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    I was under the understanding Rufus only does this when the installation contains install.wim files, because they're too big to fit on Fat32. Hence the need to use NTFS - which UEFI can't boot from.
     
  10. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    I never use rufus, fat32 formatted usb and swm/esd is good enough for me.
     
  11. bfoos

    bfoos MDL Guide Dog

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    #6316 bfoos, Oct 17, 2019
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    You are mostly correct. Not all install.wim files, just install.wim files larger than 4GB. And it only does so to ensure compatibility with UEFI BIOS's that can't boot from NTFS volumes. If the user that turned this into "How do I use Rufus" thread had bothered to read it's documentation, this thread would be 2 pages shorter!
     
  12. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    If you ask me, the user was not interested in the help in general...
     
  13. toyo

    toyo MDL Senior Member

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    On my PC, the image created by Rufus works with Secure Boot enabled. I get the warnings, but for some reason when I press F11 choose the boot device, I see the USB stick, select and the setup starts. Was the case for 1903 and 1909 and maybe earlier, I haven't disabled Secure Boot at all in the 2 years I have this PC.
     
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    uytje MDL Junior Member

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    Windows 7 tool works
     
  15. Enthousiast

    Enthousiast MDL Tester

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    If you mean "Windows7-USB-DVD-tool.exe" it's Legacy bios only, the tool creates a ntfs usb key.