creating bootable USB for win 10 64bit clean install

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Hi all,

I will be installing 64bit win10 on my new pc (building myself - don't have it yet).

I have access to a win7 pc at work which I was going to use to create the bootable USB. This system will just be used to create the bootable usb with win10 on it, and other than that is nothing to do with my new pc or new version of win10.

However I have come across a lot of information online that seems to suggest it is not possible to create a 64bit bootable usb from a 32bit system, using the microsoft media creation tool. My win7 pc at work is 32bit.


Can someone clarify this for me please - the information online is so sketchy and its totally unclear whether or not this can be done.

Thanks
 
I think its worked.

I used windows media creator to download the 64bit windows 10 iso. This failed first time but worked the second.

Then i used rufus to burn that iso to my usb stick as a bootable drive. Although i selected fat32 i noticed rufus overwrote this setting to ntfs when it started the burn from the iso.

However the usb stick will open fine on my pc, so all that is left is to test whether it boots.

I didnt expect to be able to read the usb stick on my 32bit system. Is therea way to varify that i do have the 64bit version?
 
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Thanks. Didnt work at first but i think that link gives the wrong file, as it worked on the boot.wim file instead of the install.esd file which came back with an error. The boot.wim file is tagged as x64.
 
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Right so just gonna do this again. When i select the iso file ive noticed it puts the settings back to default. So i need to select the iso file first and then change the settings.

I choose?

Gpt partition scheme for uefi
Fat32 (default)
8192 bytes (default)


Should i choose 4096 bytes cluster size even though 8192 is the default?
 
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