Windows 10 Pro download

ethan

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Hi
I'm a complete novice with this but can anybody provide the direct link to Win 10 Pro download so I can use it in conjunction with a key I have legitimately purchased. I don't as yet have a drive on my other PC so presumably will have to use something called Ruffus to install. Thank you.
 
Dont use Rufus..

Format your USB using Diskpart..

Run CMD PROMP As Admin

diskpart

list disk

select disk 1 (be sure the disk you select is your usb stick!)

clean

create partition primary

select partition 1

active

format quick fs=fat32

assign

exit
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Then extract the .iso image you got and copy the files to the USB.
 
tnx said:
Dont use Rufus.
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Why? It's worked perfectly every time I've used it - most recently tonight, to install 2019 LTSC on a new machine. It even intelligently downloads and loads the correct versions of GRUB for Linux live ISOs. Fantastic tool imho, and I've never had a failed USB (Windows, Linux or BSD) while using it.
 
Why...for me why use a third party tool when I already have a very good tool that works, Diskpart.

I never said there was owt wrong with it.
 
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Been using Diskpart for many many many years with multiple drives installed. Never got it wrong.

I would suggest if using Diskpart, only have your chosen USB drive in, look carefully at the drive sizes.

Took a snippet to show the OP what to look out for. They may not have seen Diskpart

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I have five drives. Two are SSD for my multiboot OS drives. Two are HDD storage drives and the last one is a USB ( 14GB)

This USB is highlighted.
So selecting Disk 4 would be the choice here.

This may help..
 
tnx said:
Been using Diskpart for many many many years with multiple drives installed. Never got it wrong.

I would suggest if using Diskpart, only have your chosen USB drive in, look carefully at the drive sizes.

Took a snippet to show the OP what to look out for. They may not have seen Diskpart

4ckWqBr.png


I have five drives. Two are SSD for my multiboot OS drives. Two are HDD storage drives and the last one is a USB ( 14GB)

This USB is highlighted.
So selecting Disk 4 would be the choice here.

This may help..
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Theres a bit more to it than that though, because extracting the ISO to the USB drive doesnt make the USB stick bootable, you need to use special commands in diskpart for that, Rufus just make it 10 times easier, no need to install it, just download the portable version.

You would first have to mount the ISO (which rufus does for you) and copy the hidden boot sector files and NT60 to the correct place on the USB stick (which rufus does for you) before just copying all the ISO files that you can physically see to the USB stick.
 
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Theres a bit more to it than that though, because extracting the ISO to the USB drive doesnt make the USB stick bootable, you need to use special commands in diskpart for that, Rufus just make it 10 times easier, no need to install it, just download the portable version.

You would first have to mount the ISO (which rufus does for you) and copy the hidden boot sector files and NT60 to the correct place on the USB stick (which rufus does for you) before just copying all the ISO files that you can physically see to the USB stick.
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urrrrrr....Never done that and have never had any bother booting from USB..

I format my USB's using Diskpart.
My .iso images are extracted to folders.
These image files are then just simply copied and pasted onto the USB.

This has worked each and every time for me. Right from Vista to Win 10. Not XP obviously but hey, who runs XP.
 
The link in the second post will allow you to create a bootable USB along with downloading the ISO. No need to faff around with command prompt or anything.
tnx said:
Been using Diskpart for many many many years with multiple drives installed. Never got it wrong.
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Op stated they were a novice at things like this. I certainly wouldn't have suggested diskpart.
 
Jamin280672 said:
Theres a bit more to it than that though, because extracting the ISO to the USB drive doesnt make the USB stick bootable, you need to use special commands in diskpart for that, Rufus just make it 10 times easier, no need to install it, just download the portable version.

You would first have to mount the ISO (which rufus does for you) and copy the hidden boot sector files and NT60 to the correct place on the USB stick (which rufus does for you) before just copying all the ISO files that you can physically see to the USB stick.
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Quoted for truth

You don't have to complicate such an easy process. Everyone I know uses Rufus a brilliant tool to use.

The only time I have used diskpart is to write zeros (clean all) to an hard drive, but definitely not a USB.
 
When doing things on a computer it's better to choose the easy way. Rufus is one of the easiest ways to do it as it's a proper gui. Doing anything by command line isn't for everyone. Usually command line gets used for technical people this is why we have gui apps.
 
I wonder how Rufus gets the name of only your USB drive and its Physical drive number..

ohhhh

Maybe its uses WMIC

Code: 
wmic diskdrive where interfacetype="USB" get index,caption

Then it takes the StdOut and shoots that info into a bit of script to format the USB drive and add the files..


But just using its GUI...

Its not hard to use command prompt. It does what you tell it to do.

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Four drives in my machine, just as before plus the one USB drive. The simple code above give you that info.

It tells us the USB "SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0" has the index of 4

Marry that to Diskpart > List Disk

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Shows us Disk 4 is definitely the USB drive we wish to format..


But use Rufus by all means. Maybe realize there are other ways.
 
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