How to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive to install Windows 10 on UEFI computers?

Updated on August 20, 2024 by Admin to Windows Installation USB Creator

Hasleo WinToUSB is a Windows installation USB creator which allows you to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive and then install Windows 10 from this USB drive on UEFI computers. This tutorial will show you how to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive to install Windows 10 on UEFI computers, mainly including the following aspects:

Background knowledge

With the rapid development of storage technology, especially the rapid popularity of disks with a capacity greater than 2T, computers sold on the market now use Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of using the legacy Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware as the motherboard firmware to support larger disks, and most computers no longer provide a DVD drive. The popularity of UEFI and the lack of DVD drives make it difficult to install Windows because most users don't even know what UEFI is, and they only know how to install Windows from DVD drive. Don't worry, on UEFI computers that don't have a DVD drive, we can use a USB drive to install the Windows 10 operating system.

How to download Windows 10 installation ISO?

Typically, we download Windows 10 installation ISO from the Microsoft's official website (We do not recommend that you download Windows 10 installation ISOs from third-party websites, as these ISO files may have built-in viruses or other programs that you do not need.) or purchase a Windows 10 installation DVD from a reseller. If we only have a Windows 10 installation DVD, we need to convert the DVD to Windows installation ISO. After you have a Windows 10 installation ISO file, you can follow the below steps to create a bootable Windows 10 installation USB drive with Hasleo WinToUSB. To help you download the official Windows 10 installation ISO, we wrote the following tutorial, click for details.
How to download Windows 10 installation ISO from Microsoft's official website?

 

Tutorial to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive to install Windows 10 on UEFI computers.

We know that Windows 10 is currently the most popular Windows operating system, so in this tutorial, we'll walk you through the steps to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive and then install Windows 10 form the USB drive.

Step 1. Download and install Hasleo WinToUSB, and then download Windows 10 installation ISO file, you can also download Windows 10 installation ISO file with Windows installation ISO download feature built into Hasleo WinToUSB.

Step 2. Connect the the USB drive to the computer, run Hasleo WinToUSB and then click "Windows Installation USB".

Click Windows Installation USB Creator

Step 3. Click "Select installation source", then click "Browse image file" and then select the Windows 10 installation ISO file from the open dialog box as installation source.

Select Windows installation source

Step 4. Click "Select destination drive" and select the destination drive from the pop-up drive list. If the drive is not correctly recognized by Hasleo WinToUSB, you can click the refresh drive list button for the program to recognize the drive.

Select destination drive

Step 5. Choose the partition scheme you want to use then click "Proceed". We recommend using the "MBR for BIOS and UEFI" option to create a Windows installation USB drive to install Windows on both Traditional BIOS and UEFI computers with the same USB drive.

Select partition scheme

* Partition scheme:

  1. MBR for BIOS: This option creates a Windows installation USB that can only be booted on BIOS computers.
  2. GPT for UEFI: This option creates a Windows installation USB that can only be booted on UEFI computers.
  3. MBR for BIOS and UEFI: This option creates a Windows installation USB that can be booted on both BIOS and UEFI computers.

Step 6. After clicking "Proceed", a pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, click "Yes" if you are sure.

The drive needs to be formatted prompt

Step 7. Hasleo WinToUSB begins creating the Winddows installation USB drive.

ceating Windows Installation USB drive

Step 8. Click "Finish" when the creation is complete.

Step 9. Now connect the USB drive to the computer where you want to install Windows 10, change BIOS to boot from the USB drive to install Windows 10.

change BIOS to boot from USB

Summary

As you can see, follow these simple steps, you can create a Windows 10 installation USB drive from Windows 10 installation ISO with Hasleo WinToUSB easily, and then use the USB drive to install Windows 10 on UEFI computers. In fact, the Windows 10 installation USB drive creating with Hasleo WinToUSB supports installing Windows 10 on both Traditional BIOS and UEFI computers with the same USB drive. Isn't it amazing? If you still don't believe it, please download and try it.

As a professional bootable Windows USB drive creation tool, you can not only use Hasleo WinToUSB to create a Windows 10 installation USB drive, but also install full-featured Windows to a USB drive as portable Windows 10 USB drive.

If you want to install/reinstall Windows onto a HDD/SSD drive without using a CD/DVD/USB drive, or clone your current Windows OS installation to a HDD/SSD drive, please try Hasleo WinToHDD.

 

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