

At the screen Choose which media to use, you can choose USB or DVD as the destination.


(If you're creating a disk for another computer, uncheck this box and make changes now.) To continue, click Next. Make sure Use the recommended settings for this PC remains checked. At Select language, architecture, and edition, don't change anything if you're creating the installer for this computer.At the screen What do you want to do?, select Create installation media for another PC, and click Next.Read the terms and click Accept to proceed. The installer gets things ready, then displays Notices and License terms. Under Create Windows 10 installation media, click Download tool now. Open a web browser and go to Microsoft's Windows 10 download page.All existing data on the disk will be destroyed. To format the partition, type format fs=ntfs quick, and then click ENTER.The following steps will completely overwrite the data on your USB flash drive. To select the partition that you just created, type select partition 1, and then click ENTER. To create a new primary partition on the USB flash drive, type create partition primary, and then click ENTER. This command deletes all data from the USB flash drive. Note the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive.Īt the command prompt, type select disk, where X is the drive number or drive letter of the USB flash drive, and then click ENTER. The list disk command displays all the disks on the computer. In the new command line window that opens, to determine the USB flash drive number or drive letter, at the command prompt, type list disk, and then click ENTER. Open a Command Prompt window as an administrator. Insert a USB flash drive into a running computer. Restore or repair your server running Windows Server Essentials Restore a full system from an existing client computer backup To create a bootable USB flash drive for use in recovering or reinstalling Windows on a PC instead of a server, see Create a recovery drive.įor additional scenarios in which you may want to create or use a bootable USB flash drive, see the following topics:
