Windows 10: Windows 11 won’t install from USB drive after having issues with my PC

Windows 11 won’t install from usbI had some issues with my pc that started as me not being able to open 1 steam game and turned into an issue where I am at the point where I can’t even open steam, my start menu is frozen so I have to force a shutdown every time, and all icons on my pc screen turned into white papers instead of actual logos, as if it were a blank note. After hours of troubleshooting I opted to try and just completely hard reset my pc, and even that didn’t end up working and I was left on the windows screen saying “getting ready… this shouldn’t take long” for many hours, so I wa

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Windows 7 won't install on Velociraptor

You could do with filling out your system specs as no one presently knows what you have *Smile , you'll find that under the user cp tab.
no suggestions really except download all the latest drivers for your motherboard and extract them to a usb stick ,afaik that drive is a standard ish hdd and should'nt need any special driver per say but it could be the motherboard driver having an issue, also set the sata / ide controller to AHCI in bios not Ide and not raid unless you are raiding two disks ,in which case the issue list might grow*Smile

specs please its hard to suggest anything without them*Big Grin

ah i was typin a while , mobo drivers still to me as it should have just worked.

 

Hard drive/ OS issue

a guy suggested :

• shutdown
• unhooked HDD
• restarted
• yay !!
• reconnected HDD
• restarted
• yay !!

also , try method 3
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