I was using Rufus to create a bootable 8.1 Windows OS USB, at the end of the formatting, I kept getting this undetermined error while formatting. How do I go about addressing this issue? Your help is greatly appreciated.
You could try to only format the usb FAT32 and just extract the iso to it? It will be UEFI and Legacy BIOS bootable.
if it has been diskpart clean'ed it wont boot legacy as it would be missing the MBR .. it works if the MBR on usb is still present.
I use diskpart. List disk, select disk #, clean, create part pri, sel part 1, format fs=fat32 quick, assign, active. Then exit diskpart, and just copy files over from image. Boot to thumb drive.
what do u mean by just extract the ISO to it? U mean cut and paste the ISO into the USB straight? And then just start installing on the new com?
Not needed for poor people who install just w10. Happen that others have to install anything from hybrid linux images to any win version to some older windows to dos bootable drives, still needed today for many purposes, and rufus does all of them, reliably and with just one or two mouse clicks. That said is not the invention of the hot water knowing that any partition is already bootable since nt 3.51