Sphere478 wrote on 2024-06-01, 03:12:

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setu […]
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I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setup. They act like they are non bootable

I tried making them with the media creation tool,

Even tried rufus on bios mode. Nothing…

Any ideas?

Maybe try creating the bootable USB media with Rufus, from an ISO image.

I missed that you alreeady did. Sorry. Maybe try from an actual DVD

Does the USB drive show up in the BIOS and can you set it above your internal drive in the boot order? Normally, that's all you have to do.

If it's not showing up in the BIOS then I'm not 100% sure. Kinda sounds like you're doing it all correctly. Using an ISO to create a bootable USB.

You could try ventoy.
or get something like the zalmen ve-300 or iodd 2501 if you can still find them.

Try using an SD card reader. I have a Core 2 Quad machine (BIOS only) that for some reason has trouble booting from USB sticks. But when I use an SD card and a reader it boots fine.

My HP Z400 doesn't have a UEFI BIOS. I have a regular HDD with its boot block initialized by Clover, and Clover is able to locate my PCI-e M.2 drive and boot up Windows on GPT partitioning. I setup the config for Clover to directly jump to Windows 11 upon boot without showing me other choices. Thus the machine doesn't even make it obvious that it doesn't support UEFI/GPT. It just works like a modern mobo.

The rest of that regular HDD acts as D: for a DOS boot on the same machine. 😁

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-06-01, 03:12:

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setu […]
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I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setup. They act like they are non bootable

I tried making them with the media creation tool,

Even tried rufus on bios mode. Nothing…

Any ideas?

should be do-able, dont use media creation tool, use rufus any version should be fine go for at least 3.20 to be sure,
set partition scheme to "MBR", target system to BIOS (or UEFI-CSM), the other important one is below, where it says "Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID" make sure to check this box
without it this might be why your usb isnt booting, for the drop down box leave it set at "0x80 (Default)" now you should be good.

sometimes your usb stick might just be problematic and not work, make sure any settings in your bios related to legacy usb are enabled, to start with unplug any other drives like, dvd/cd, hdd or floppy, just have your usb plugged in to make sure your pc isn't trying to boot from one of those instead, if it still wont boot if your pc has a boot menu on post by pressing one of the "F keys" your drive might show up there, it may be under a different option like one of my boards like USB-FLOPPY/USB-ZIP/USB-HDD. etc
so you may have to try each if thats the case, if still no luck as others have said try a MicroSD card with a usb adapter, i've found an 8GB works well for me, i've installed win10/win11 on a few board this way.

ill post a screenshot of my settings in rufus as well.

if all goes well after installing win10, you can delete the "install.wim" file from your usb and replace it with the one from the windows 11 iso, this will use the win10 installer to install win11 bypassing all the bullshit, if win 11 fails during installation you may have to try a different install.wim from a different version of win11 iso, the first one i tried ddnt work. if i remember correctly this was the one i used "Win11_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso" the version of windows 10 iso i used you can see in the screenshot.
also while installing win11 it will try to get you to sign in to your microsoft account if you unplug your network cable while this is happening you should be able to eventually bypass it without signing in, it may take a few trys.

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-06-01, 03:12:

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setu […]
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I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setup. They act like they are non bootable

I tried making them with the media creation tool,

Even tried rufus on bios mode. Nothing…

Any ideas?

Please don't take this wrong way, but are you certain that you did not accidentally try using Windows 11 22H2 media rather than Windows 10 22H2 media ?

darry wrote on 2024-09-07, 16:32:

Please don't take this wrong way, but are you certain that you did not accidentally try using Windows 11 22H2 media rather than Windows 10 22H2 media ?

That shouldn't matter, Windows 11 like windows 10 still has CSM mode support, Microsoft won't tell you about it but it's there, I've done this, you just won't be able to get windows updates through conventional means if you install in CSM mode though.

No replies from OP, so probably he figured out how to do it himself long ago 😀

I verified that it is indeed windows 10 image

kolmio wrote on 2024-09-10, 05:54:

No replies from OP, so probably he figured out how to do it himself long ago 😀

I did not. I tried again the other day. Win 7 installs fine, but no dice with 10

DudeFace wrote on 2024-09-07, 09:32:

should be do-able, dont use media creation tool, use rufus any version should be fine go for at least 3.20 to be sure, set part […]
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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-06-01, 03:12:

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setu […]
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I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setup. They act like they are non bootable

I tried making them with the media creation tool,

Even tried rufus on bios mode. Nothing…

Any ideas?

should be do-able, dont use media creation tool, use rufus any version should be fine go for at least 3.20 to be sure,
set partition scheme to "MBR", target system to BIOS (or UEFI-CSM), the other important one is below, where it says "Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID" make sure to check this box
without it this might be why your usb isnt booting, for the drop down box leave it set at "0x80 (Default)" now you should be good.

sometimes your usb stick might just be problematic and not work, make sure any settings in your bios related to legacy usb are enabled, to start with unplug any other drives like, dvd/cd, hdd or floppy, just have your usb plugged in to make sure your pc isn't trying to boot from one of those instead, if it still wont boot if your pc has a boot menu on post by pressing one of the "F keys" your drive might show up there, it may be under a different option like one of my boards like USB-FLOPPY/USB-ZIP/USB-HDD. etc
so you may have to try each if thats the case, if still no luck as others have said try a MicroSD card with a usb adapter, i've found an 8GB works well for me, i've installed win10/win11 on a few board this way.

ill post a screenshot of my settings in rufus as well.

if all goes well after installing win10, you can delete the "install.wim" file from your usb and replace it with the one from the windows 11 iso, this will use the win10 installer to install win11 bypassing all the bullshit, if win 11 fails during installation you may have to try a different install.wim from a different version of win11 iso, the first one i tried ddnt work. if i remember correctly this was the one i used "Win11_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso" the version of windows 10 iso i used you can see in the screenshot.
also while installing win11 it will try to get you to sign in to your microsoft account if you unplug your network cable while this is happening you should be able to eventually bypass it without signing in, it may take a few trys.

This all sounds like stuff I have tried except the windows 11 part.

Sphere478 wrote on 2024-09-11, 02:41:

I verified that it is indeed windows 10 image […]
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I verified that it is indeed windows 10 image

kolmio wrote on 2024-09-10, 05:54:

No replies from OP, so probably he figured out how to do it himself long ago 😀

I did not. I tried again the other day. Win 7 installs fine, but no dice with 10

DudeFace wrote on 2024-09-07, 09:32:

should be do-able, dont use media creation tool, use rufus any version should be fine go for at least 3.20 to be sure, set part […]
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Sphere478 wrote on 2024-06-01, 03:12:

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setu […]
Show full quote

I’m trying to install windows 10 on a s775 motherboard, but all the usb sticks that I am trying don’t seem to be booting to setup. They act like they are non bootable

I tried making them with the media creation tool,

Even tried rufus on bios mode. Nothing…

Any ideas?

should be do-able, dont use media creation tool, use rufus any version should be fine go for at least 3.20 to be sure,
set partition scheme to "MBR", target system to BIOS (or UEFI-CSM), the other important one is below, where it says "Use Rufus MBR with BIOS ID" make sure to check this box
without it this might be why your usb isnt booting, for the drop down box leave it set at "0x80 (Default)" now you should be good.

sometimes your usb stick might just be problematic and not work, make sure any settings in your bios related to legacy usb are enabled, to start with unplug any other drives like, dvd/cd, hdd or floppy, just have your usb plugged in to make sure your pc isn't trying to boot from one of those instead, if it still wont boot if your pc has a boot menu on post by pressing one of the "F keys" your drive might show up there, it may be under a different option like one of my boards like USB-FLOPPY/USB-ZIP/USB-HDD. etc
so you may have to try each if thats the case, if still no luck as others have said try a MicroSD card with a usb adapter, i've found an 8GB works well for me, i've installed win10/win11 on a few board this way.

ill post a screenshot of my settings in rufus as well.

if all goes well after installing win10, you can delete the "install.wim" file from your usb and replace it with the one from the windows 11 iso, this will use the win10 installer to install win11 bypassing all the bullshit, if win 11 fails during installation you may have to try a different install.wim from a different version of win11 iso, the first one i tried ddnt work. if i remember correctly this was the one i used "Win11_22H2_EnglishInternational_x64v1.iso" the version of windows 10 iso i used you can see in the screenshot.
also while installing win11 it will try to get you to sign in to your microsoft account if you unplug your network cable while this is happening you should be able to eventually bypass it without signing in, it may take a few trys.

This all sounds like stuff I have tried except the windows 11 part.

if you've tried all that i'm not sure what the problem could be, if windows 7 works it could be the version of win10 you're using, i'm using and older version from 2018 that then takes an age to update, also for win 11 swapping the install.wim is the older way to install, the newer way uses a certain version of rufus with extra options to disable to bypass all the requirements/microsoft account, that wasnt working for me as the options were not showing up in rufus, maybe the iso i was using was too old, i've heard the latest verion of win11 has requirements making it impossible to install on old cpu's, i dont know if this also the case with the latest version of win10, only thing i can suggest is maybe try an older version, the one in my screenshot works at least, maybe you'll have some luck with that 😀

Yeah I was kinda wondering if the iso was too new.

Can anyone verify the latest version verified to work on bios mobo?