Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Complete Guide to Installing Windows 10 — USB Thumb Drive to the Windows Desktop”.
Hello and welcome to tech deals today, I’m going to I’m sorry. Where are my manners? My name is XT Tech and rogue are a little bit busy today, so I’m gon na be subbing as the host for today’s video. I’M gon na show you how you can completely install Windows 10, even if you don’t have a copy of it. This is perfect for those of you who may have just built a new PC, bought or received a used PC or are thinking about upgrading to Windows. 10 from a previous version, it’s super easy to do and all you need is a USB thumb drive with at least 8 gigs of storage in about 30 minutes of your time.
Also, if you have an SD card reader, you can also use an SD card as well, though it may not be as fast as your standard USB Drive. Now I’m gon na hop on my PC and I’m going to show you guys how to do it. If you’re doing a clean, install of Windows 10 on an existing PC, then make sure you backup your data. You can do this with the drive that you currently own or you can use Backblaze. This is the same site that Tech uses to back up his files. You can use Backblaze to backup an unlimited amount of files for just $ 6 a month. If you guys want to try it yourself, there’s a link in the description with the two-week free trial with no credit card required. So you can try it completely free with no commitment.
The first thing you’ll need to do is download the Windows. 10 creation tool from Microsoft, using the link are provided in the description below once you click on the link, you’re going to be greeted to this screen. Here you can either update Windows 10 or create an installation media for this video we’re gon na focus on creating our installation media so go ahead and click the download button and then open it up. It may take a few minutes for the program to start up. So at this point you should plug in your USB flash drive, if you haven’t done so already once you get to the license terms, click accept after that. We will ask you if you would like to upgrade your PC or create the installation media.
We are going to create the installation media. Now it’s going to bring you to this screen here, which gives you a couple of options which are pretty self-explanatory, but the main one that I want to focus on is the architecture. If you would like to use the 32-bit version of Windows, 10 you’re going to uncheck this button and change the architecture to 32-bit in the drop down menu. But if you are already planning on using the 64-bit version of Windows, you can leave this button checked and be good to go. Now. Here is where you’re actually going to choose. The USB Drive that you want to use for your installation media so go ahead and click Next. It’S gon na give you a list of removable drives. I only have one currently plugged in so I’m gon na choose that one then click Next, then it will begin downloading and installing the installation media after that, it’s going to verify then create it.
Now that everything is done, installing you’re gon na take out your USB thumb, drive put it into your new PC or the existing PC that you’re gon na use to install Windows 10 and boot into the installation media from the BIOS. When you get to the BIOS, you should see a screen that looks similar to this. It may not look exactly like this screen, but the same steps will apply on the main BIOS screen.
You should see a boot priority list. This is a list of drives on the system that you can use to boot into Windows. You should see the name of the USB Drive you used for the Windows 10 installation tool.
All you need to do is click on that drive and drag it to the top of the boot priority list. If you don’t see a boot priority list on the main BIOS screen, then click on the Advanced tab navigate to the boot menu and then select the USB Drive from the drop down menu on the first boot option. After that, hit f10 to reset the system and boot into the Windows, 10 install tool once he booted to the Windows, setup screen, select your language time format and keyboard method, then click Next and install next.
It will ask for your product key. It’S! Okay! If you don’t have a product key, yet just select this option and choose the version of Windows 10, you are planning on activating then hit next. When you get to this screen, choose the custom installation option and then choose the drive that you want.
Windows tend to be installed on. This could be a hard drive, SSD or envy me drive. The main thing is you want to be sure that you install Windows 10 on a fresh drive with no data? You’Ll know it’s a fresh drive if it says unallocated space in the name. All of these drives currently have data on them. So that’s why these are not listed as unallocated. If you have a drive that already has partitions on it, you’ll want to delete these partitions.
If you want to avoid any errors, while installing windows, but before you delete anything, make sure the data you have on the drive is properly backed up and saved. Since you can’t recover it afterward. If you don’t want to deal with any uncertainties, then just plug in your boot drive when you install windows that way, you can be sure you’re, not installing anything on the wrong drive. Once you select the drive, you want to use, hit next and install windows. Now before I get to the next part, I want to show you guys how you can get an inexpensive Windows. 10, Oh a.m. key, so that you can activate windows as soon as you’re done.
Installing just visit your CD key here, you can get a Windows 10 Pro OAM key for 14 dollars using the tech deals discount code TD, 20 plus. If you are activating two pcs, you can get two keys for $ 22 and a Microsoft Office 2019 key for $ 56. All using the discount code TD, 20 links to all of these keys are in the description below once you have your key.
You want to go ahead and use it to activate Windows to do this. Click on the update, .