Follow these steps to create installation media (USB flash drive or DVD) you can use to install a new copy of Windows 10, perform a clean installation, or reinstall Windows 10.
Before you download the tool make sure you have:
- An internet connection (internet service provider fees may apply).
- Sufficient data storage available on a computer, USB or external drive for the download.
- A blank USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space or blank DVD (and DVD burner) if you want to create media. We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted.
- When burning a DVD from an ISO file, if you are told the disc image file is too large you will need to use Dual Layer (DL) DVD Media.
Check a few things on the PC where you want to install Windows 10:
- 64-bit or 32-bit processor (CPU). You’ll create either a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows 10. To check this on your PC, go to PC info in PC settings or System in Control Panel, and look for System type.
- System requirements. Make sure the PC meets the system requirements for Windows 10. We also recommend going to the PC manufacturer's website for additional info about updated drivers and hardware compatibility.
- Language in Windows. You'll need to choose the same language when you install Windows 10. To see what language you're currently using, go to Time and language in PC settings or Region in Control Panel.
- Edition of Windows. You should also choose the same edition of Windows. To check what edition you're currently running, go to PC info in PC settings or System in Control Panel, and look for Windows edition. Windows 10 Enterprise isn’t available in the media creation tool. For more info, go to the Volume Licensing Service Center.
- Microsoft Office products. If you just purchased a new device that includes Office 365, we recommend redeeming (installing) Office before upgrading to Windows 10. To redeem your copy of Office, please see Download and install Office 365 Home, Personal, or University on your PC. For more information, check How to upgrade to Windows 10 on new devices that include Office 365.
If you have Office 2010 or earlier and choose to perform a clean install of Windows 10, you will need to locate your Office product key. For tips on locating your product key, check Find your Office 2010 product key or Enter the product key for your Office 2007 program.
Using the tool to create installation media:
- Select Download tool now, and select Run. You need to be an administrator to run this tool.
- If you agree to the license terms, select Accept.
- On the What do you want to do? page, select Create installation media for another PC, and then select Next.
- Select the language, edition, and architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) for Windows 10. This table will help you decide which edition of Windows 10 you’ll choose:
Your current edition of Windows Windows 10 edition Windows 7 Starter
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 8.1 with Bing
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8.1 Pro
Windows 8/8.1 Professional with Media Center
Windows 8/8.1 Single Language
Windows 8 Single Language with Bing
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 ProWindows 10 Windows 8/8.1 Chinese Language Edition
Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with BingWindows 10 Home China - Select which media you want to use:
- USB flash drive. Attach a blank USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space. Any content on the flash drive will be deleted.
- ISO file. Save an ISO file to your PC, which you can use to create a DVD. After the file is downloaded, you can go to location where the file is saved, or select Open DVD burner, and follow the instructions to burn the file to a DVD. For more info about using an ISO file, see Additional methods for using the ISO file to install Windows 10 section below.
- After the installation media is created, follow the steps below to use it.
- After completing the steps to install Windows 10, please check that you have all the necessary device drivers installed. To check for updates now, select the Start button, and then go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update, and select Check for updates. You may also wish to visit your device manufacturer’s support site for any additional drivers that may be needed.Note: Drivers for Surface devices may be found on the Download drivers and firmware for Surface page.
Follow these steps to create installation media (USB flash drive or DVD) you can use to install a new copy of Windows 10, perform a clean installation, or reinstall Windows 10.
Before you download the tool make sure you have:
- An internet connection (internet service provider fees may apply).
- Sufficient data storage available on a computer, USB or external drive for the download.
- A blank USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space or blank DVD (and DVD burner) if you want to create media. We recommend using a blank USB or blank DVD, because any content on it will be deleted.
- When burning a DVD from an ISO file, if you are told the disc image file is too large you will need to use Dual Layer (DL) DVD Media.
Check a few things on the PC where you want to install Windows 10:
- 64-bit or 32-bit processor (CPU). You’ll create either a 64-bit or 32-bit version of Windows 10. To check this on your PC, go to PC info in PC settings or System in Control Panel, and look for System type.
- System requirements. Make sure the PC meets the system requirements for Windows 10. We also recommend going to the PC manufacturer's website for additional info about updated drivers and hardware compatibility.
- Language in Windows. You'll need to choose the same language when you install Windows 10. To see what language you're currently using, go to Time and language in PC settings or Region in Control Panel.
- Edition of Windows. You should also choose the same edition of Windows. To check what edition you're currently running, go to PC info in PC settings or System in Control Panel, and look for Windows edition. Windows 10 Enterprise isn’t available in the media creation tool. For more info, go to the Volume Licensing Service Center.
- Microsoft Office products. If you just purchased a new device that includes Office 365, we recommend redeeming (installing) Office before upgrading to Windows 10. To redeem your copy of Office, please see Download and install Office 365 Home, Personal, or University on your PC. For more information, check How to upgrade to Windows 10 on new devices that include Office 365.
If you have Office 2010 or earlier and choose to perform a clean install of Windows 10, you will need to locate your Office product key. For tips on locating your product key, check Find your Office 2010 product key or Enter the product key for your Office 2007 program.
Using the tool to create installation media:
- Select Download tool now, and select Run. You need to be an administrator to run this tool.
- If you agree to the license terms, select Accept.
- On the What do you want to do? page, select Create installation media for another PC, and then select Next.
- Select the language, edition, and architecture (64-bit or 32-bit) for Windows 10. This table will help you decide which edition of Windows 10 you’ll choose:
Your current edition of Windows Windows 10 edition Windows 7 Starter
Windows 7 Home Basic
Windows 7 Home Premium
Windows 7 Professional
Windows 7 Ultimate
Windows 8/8.1
Windows 8.1 with Bing
Windows 8 Pro
Windows 8.1 Pro
Windows 8/8.1 Professional with Media Center
Windows 8/8.1 Single Language
Windows 8 Single Language with Bing
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 ProWindows 10 Windows 8/8.1 Chinese Language Edition
Windows 8 Chinese Language Edition with BingWindows 10 Home China - Select which media you want to use:
- USB flash drive. Attach a blank USB flash drive with at least 8GB of space. Any content on the flash drive will be deleted.
- ISO file. Save an ISO file to your PC, which you can use to create a DVD. After the file is downloaded, you can go to location where the file is saved, or select Open DVD burner, and follow the instructions to burn the file to a DVD. For more info about using an ISO file, see Additional methods for using the ISO file to install Windows 10 section below.
- After the installation media is created, follow the steps below to use it.
- After completing the steps to install Windows 10, please check that you have all the necessary device drivers installed. To check for updates now, select the Start button, and then go to Settings > Update & Security > Windows Update, and select Check for updates. You may also wish to visit your device manufacturer’s support site for any additional drivers that may be needed.Note: Drivers for Surface devices may be found on the Download drivers and firmware for Surface page.
I have been trying to build up a window's 7 and 2k8 EFI deployment ISO or USB. But struggling to to even get an ISO to boot from even VMware Workstation EFI implementation. The problem is there is no clear requirement to what the EFI bootloader is looking for, 'e.g EFI boot file' even ISO's and USB's that are bootable don't find the required .efi file.
I'd like to know what is the process EFI bootloader follows to boot the EFI file. e.g;
in a EFI windows system its;
C:WindowsBootEFIbootmgfw.efi
From DVD it's;
F:efimicrosoftbootcdboot.efi
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from what people tell me it's on USB;
G:efibootbootx64.efi (bootmgfw.efi renamed)
I've been testing on a HP notebook with EFI 2.0 and VMware Workstation 8.0 with .vmx file firmware = 'efi'
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This Microsoft article covered exactly what you're looking for:
The instruction line that is fundamentally different for UEFI images is:
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I’m currently pulling out hairs about a problem with my wife’s new Samsung Book 9 laptop.
it comes preinstalled with Windows 8. She wants Windows 7 Pro.
it comes preinstalled with Windows 8. She wants Windows 7 Pro.
I’ve board a Windows 7 Pro 64-bit for her and thought that this would be just like a regular “clean Windows installation” but unfortunately that has not been the case.
From Samsung’s website I followed some instructions on how to configure the BIOS to be able to function with Windows 7. That meant to change the BIOS specification from UEFI to CSM.I disabled the Fast Boot config so it would recognize my portable DVD-drive and changed the Boot-sequence.I also disabled the Secure Boot configuration.
Everything worked and I could boot from the Windows 7 dvd and begin the installation process.
But the problem came when going into the section where one can choose partitions for the installation, delete, format and create new. I deleted the Windows 8 partition and created a new but I got an error at the bottom of the screening telling me that I could not install on this partition.
When going into Details on that message it stated that it could not be installed because it was running on GPT partition and not NTFS.
I should say that i did not delete all partitions because one of them was the Windows 8 recovery and I would be able to go back to the preinstalled version of Windows if anything went bad.
I’ve been searching Google, forums and communities, Youtube videos and what not to hope to find an answer but no where I’m getting closer to the answer.
My questions are:
Do I need to delete the entire SSD drive in order for it to go back to NTFS?
Is there anyway that Windows 7 can be installed on UEFI with GPT?
Does anyone might have experienced something similar which has some advice for me to make a clean install of Windows 7??
Do I need to delete the entire SSD drive in order for it to go back to NTFS?
Is there anyway that Windows 7 can be installed on UEFI with GPT?
Does anyone might have experienced something similar which has some advice for me to make a clean install of Windows 7??
I’m having a hard time to accept that it just ain’t possible to run anything else than Windows 8 on a computer.
Any help or advice would be so very much appreciated.
Cheers,
- M
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First, you're conflating two or three different things (perhaps because of poorly worded program messages):
- Firmware type -- Old PCs used the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), but new computers use the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) or its newer variant, the Unified EFI (UEFI). The main duty of both the BIOS and the EFI is to start the boot process, but they do so in incompatible ways, so an OS needs to support whichever boot mode the computer supports. Most EFIs include a component called the Compatibility Support Module (CSM), which enables an EFI to boot BIOS-mode OSes, but this feature can cause as many problems as it solves. Complicating discussion of BIOSes and EFIs is the fact that many people (and even most manufacturers) refer to EFIs as 'BIOSes,' probably because 'BIOS' is the more familiar term. The two aren't really the same, though, and using the term 'BIOS' to refer to an EFI is like using the term 'Ford' to refer to a Chevrolet. The generic term is 'firmware.'
- Partition table type -- Old PCs used the Master Boot Record (MBR) method of partitioning disks. EFI introduced a new system, known as the GUID Partition Table (GPT). Although GPT is associated with EFI, the two aren't the same thing, and it's possible to use GPT on a BIOS-based computer or MBR on an EFI-based computer. Windows, though, does tie the two together for its boot disk: Windows will boot from MBR disks only on BIOS-based computers (or when using CSM/BIOS/legacy mode on an EFI-based computer) and from GPT disks only on EFI-based computers. It's possible to use either partition table type with either boot mode for data disks or with many non-Windows OSes, though.
- Filesystem type -- Since Windows XP, Windows has favored the New Technology File System (NTFS) for storing data. NTFS, like other filesystems (such as the older FAT or various filesystems used by Linux and OS X), is a set of data structures that facilitate naming files, locating them on a disk, and so on. Any filesystem can be used with either MBR or GPT (or other partition table types), so your statement that the computer 'was running on GPT partition and not NTFS' conflates partition tables and filesystems. Typically, a Windows disk will use NTFS and either GPT or MBR. AFAIK, both Windows 7 and Windows 8 require the use of NTFS for the boot partition, but can use FAT or (via third-party drivers) various other filesystems for data partitions.
Both Windows 8 and Windows 7 support BIOS and EFI. Your choice of boot mode dictates your choice of partition table type. The error message about GPT was an indication that you'd booted the Windows 7 installer in BIOS/CSM/legacy mode, so it was expecting MBR, and when it saw GPT, it complained. You must use NTFS as your boot (usually
C:
) filesystem, whether your partition table type is GPT or MBR, and if you use additional data partitions, you'll probably want to use NTFS on them.Thus, the question becomes: Which boot mode do you want to use? Most Windows 7 media make it easier to boot in BIOS Mode than in EFI mode. Various sites describe how to boot Windows 7 in EFI mode for installation to a GPT disk, though. This site, for instance, describes the process; however, I've not read it thoroughly and so can't vouch for its accuracy.
If you decide to install Windows 7 in BIOS/CSM/legacy mode, you'll need to wipe the GPT data from the disk. A full-disk wipe, as Understood has suggested, is one option; however, that's overkill. You could use my GPT fdisk (
gdisk
) to wipe just the GPT data by using the z
option on the experts' menu. Any partitioning tool that enables you to create a fresh MBR data structure should do the job, too, although some of them (including Microsoft's tools) won't completely wipe the GPT data structures. The leftover GPT data could cause problems in the future, should a disk utility look for them and become confused as a result. (Many Linux installers will do this, for example.)There are a few advantages to using EFI mode for booting, but most of them are quite minor or won't apply in all cases:
- EFI mode is faster than BIOS/CSM/legacy mode on most new EFI-based computers. This isn't universally true, though, and the difference is just a few seconds.
- Secure Boot can improve system security by making it harder for malware to infect the boot process. Windows 7 doesn't support Secure Boot, though, so you'll have to either disable it or employ one of the Linux Secure Boot tools to get limited Secure Boot support with Windows 7. (I've never tried using the Linux tools with Windows 7, so I'm not even 100% sure that this would work.)
- GPT is a practical necessity to use disks larger than 2TiB (2.2TB). If your boot disk is smaller than this, GPT's advantages are very slim.
- EFI is theoretically much more flexible than BIOS in terms of boot loader management, which can be beneficial in a multi-boot environment. OTOH, EFI is new enough and still has enough bugs that its theoretical advantages are often offset by real-world bugs and other problems.
Create Uefi Bootable Usb Windows 7 Rufus
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In order to install Windows on a GPT disk:
Use Rufus to create a bootable USB stick with settings like in the picture below.
It is important to choose 'GPT partition scheme for UEFI'
This solution fixes the Error: 'windows cannot be installed on this disk. The selected disk is of the GPT partition style'
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The only way to do it is to have full format of your HD.
You can't have GPT and MBR per partition.
It is only PER disk.
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Same happened to me.. i wanted to keep the recovery partition and I was getting the message that it could not be installed because it was running on GPT partition and not NTFS. I saw hundreds of videos on youtube and I saw that somebody was getting the same message until every partition is erased. So i erased every partition and finally i was able to install the os win 7.
AndreAndre
GPT is a partition created when the OEM installed Windows 8. You must delete that partition and create a new partition with the MBR format.
Within the Windows installation, but before you click the
Install Now
button: - Click
Repair your computer
. - System Recovery Options Windows will show, here find and click
Command Prompt
.
To change a GUID partition table disk into a master boot record disk using command line:
- Back up or move all volumes on the basic GUID partition table (GPT) disk you want to convert into a master boot record (MBR) disk.
- Open an elevated command prompt and type
diskpart
. If the disk does not contain any partitions or volumes, skip to step 6. - At the DISKPART prompt, type
list disk
. Make note of the disk number you want to delete. - At the DISKPART prompt, type
select disk <disknumber>
. (select disk 1 or select disk 2 ETC.) - At the DISKPART prompt, type
clean
(Running the clean command will delete all partitions or volumes on the disk.) - At the DISKPART prompt, type
convert mbr
. (if you want a GPT format and you're on MBR just typeConvert GPT
.)
Then you can install Windows 7.
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