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Install windows on USB from existing windows installation

I have old Windows 7 laptop with producent-changed Windows 7 image (very small + touchable screen support) but with very small disc. After multiple attemps I failed to make clear installation of ...
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Issue booting Win10 with UEFI (new PC build)

I just built a PC (specs below) and I’m having a rough time creating a bootable Windows OS USB from my Mac. I think it’s because UEFI requires FAT32 (not exFat and NTFS). The only version of Windows ...
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Is there a way to create a permanent virtual USB drive in WIndows?

Is there a way to create a virtual USB drive, through some UEFI magic that stays there during boot and would be bootable? I have seen recovery programs do this where they create a virtual USB drive or ...
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HP Probook won't boot from USB even with SecureBoot disabled and Legacy mode enabled

So, I bought a used HP Probook 9470M recently and wanted to install Windows 10 on it. After creating a bootable USB with the Rufus tool, I tried booting with it but it didn't work. I read around and ...
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Windows 10 Disable UEFI disk from booting (boot from usb on reboot)

Before i am told just do it in bios the issue is this, the computer is connected to a PXE server and when all the machines were legacy bios, i could just disable the disk and reimage the machine. ...
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Can't start windows installer from a USB drive on an UEFI-GPT-Windows scenario

I had my laptop happily running Windows 8.1 on a GPT formatted disk booting in UEFI mode. I installed some driver updates (I suspect either the display driver or IRST might be causing the issue). ...
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Unable to install windows 10 on my new laptop (with DOS) from UEFI( SOLVED)

As clear from the topic i bought a new laptop yesterday . Acer aspire e15 575g- 51va. INFO It came with dos pre-installed and i want to install windows 10 on it. so i used my old laptop(lenovo e49) ...
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I'm unable to boot my Windows 10 installer USB in UEFI mode?

I'm having this problem with my Toshiba L875-S7308 where I cannot boot my USB while in UEFI mode. I have formatted the USB (tried MBR and GPT - same result), and restored the ISO using the Windows 7 ...
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Acer Aspire keeps rebooting when bootable USB inserted

So I have an Acer Aspire V5-131 and long story short (really, it's a long story!), I decided to do a complete wipe of the HDD (using dban). So right now the HDD is absolutely wiped, there's nothing on ...
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