I have a brand new and prebuilt system that runs on i7 11700. What partition scheme and target system type does everyone run for W10 installs? I plan to have w10 installed on a 1 TB m.2 solid state drive.
Using Ventoy2Disk, there is no option for that. Is this automatically done for UEFI based machines and selecting GPT partition?
Download windows.iso using Media Creation Tool. Boot from this iso file and let Windows installer do everything for you. You will get a perfectly partitioned SSD. If you intend to have only a part of your SSD space for Windows system drive (drive C: ), you can set this at the beginning of Windows installation. Windos.iso will boot perfectly from Ventoy.
You titled your post as Rufus to install Win 10..Then you say using Ventoy???????? Which are you asking about?
Sorry, but why should "Use ventoy for generic bootable windows 10 iso" if it's absolutely not necessary, even fully useless.
I just format USB to Fat32 and then copy the ISO contents to the USB. If install.wim is too large to go on to USB then convert the Wim to ESD Doing this allows for Secure Boot to remain enabled as the USB is now UEFI compatible.
Split the Windows image file into smaller files, and put the smaller files onto the USB drive Dism /Split-Image /ImageFile:\sources\install.wim /SWMFile:E:\sources\install.swm /FileSize:3800 It would make 3 install.swm Worked for me many of times
Well, dropping a Windows 10 iso on an already existing Ventoy USB with some free space does not seem useless to me.. Burning it to a DVD, like I sometimes read here, now THAT seems pretty useless to me. Ventoy supports large (>4gb) iso files, so ceonverting to ESD is not necessary. That being said, I also don't understand why the thread title says "Rufus"?
If someone told me that there is such a post in this forum, I would not believe it. But if you read for yourself, with own eyes, you have to believe. Even better to say, You must believe in it.
Ventoy has quite some advantages for those who use more than one computer and 'playing' quite a bit with OSes! You simply could easily use a lot of different ISOs for many different OSes, including Linux and others! those IOSes don't need to be on a Flash Drive, you just could use an external HDD/SSD for that! Makes work much easier! Personally, I don't like to have a lot of different Flash Drives for the OSes, therefor I use Ventoy already for a long time. Easy, no-hassle, and everything together on One Drive only!