Windows 10: Windows Setup not booting from Flash drive

Hello, i recently got a new SSD nvme m.2 and connected it everthing was visible but was not working as my hdd still was, i then Went to clone from hdd to SSD but then something was not right. I plugged in my flash drive with new OS setup and deleted all my partition on my hdd and my ssd very stupid i know and from now on i cant boot from flash drive OS setup because it says “The Boot Configuration Data File Doesn’t Contain Valid Information for an opertaing system” please help

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Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

Please move if this is in the wrong place.

I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

Any help would be appreciated.

Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.

 

Windows Boot Manager switching drives/Windows Install flash drive won’t load

Hi,

WindowsBootManager normally only appears with UEFI setups.. With Legacy Bios you normally just select the drive with Windows on it as boot device..

At the moment, I would suggest unhooking your D:\ drive, just to try and isolate the problem..

With the machine setup for Legacy, go into the Boot section of your Bios and see what you have as options for the boot drive.. If possible, set the 1st boot device to hard drive, and the SSD as the 1st HDD\SSD..

Once you do this you will need to use the Bios Boot Options to boot from the flash drive..

The SSD may be corrupted, or even has possibly failed, but that is not known for sure.. If the SSD is corrupted or has failed, it may be the cause of some of your boot issues with the flash drive..

Try again booting with the MBR\Legacy flash drive and select it as the "Normal" flash drive and see what happens..

 

Create a bootable flash drive for a UEFI system (not Legacy Boot mode)

Installing Windows O/S from a USB flash drive is actually much faster than installing from a DVD. In this guide i will show you how to create a Windows 8, Windows 8.1 or Windows 10 bootable USB flash drive. You need a 4 GB USB flash drive to have enough space to fit the entire Windows O/S installation file on the drive.

Before you begin it is important to understand that any data on your USB flash drive used to create the boot media will be permanently deleted because the process formats the USB flash drive. Save any important documents to another location before proceeding to the next section.





Preparing the USB Flash Drive
The partitioning and file system on the USB flash drive are important for booting. Only one partition can be on the USB flash drive, it must be set to active, and the file system must be FAT32. Many computers with the new UEFI BIOS replacement have problems booting USB flash devices with any file system other than FAT32.

Insert the USB flash drive into a Windows computer and follow these steps:

1. After the USB flash drive has been recognized and installed on the computer, click the
   
   button, type Diskpart, and hit Enter key.
2. From the opened Diskpart Command Prompt window, type list disk and hit Enter key.
3. Locate the Disk # of your USB flash drive. You can easily find it by looking at the size column.
4. Once you have the ID, type select disk # and hit Enter key. (Replace the # hash symbol with the actual USB flash drive assigned disk ID, such as 1).
5. Type clean and hit Enter key to destroy any partitions, file system, and data that may currently be on the USB flash drive.
6. Now it is time to create the partition. Type create partition primary and hit Enter key.
7. For booting it is important to set the partition as active. Type active and hit Enter key.
8. The file system must be FAT32. Type Format FS=Fat32 Label=Winboot quick and hit Enter key. This performs a quick format and labels the drive in one step. Windows will automatically mounts and assigns a drive letter to USB flash drive.
9. Type exit to close the Diskpart utility. Your USB flash drive is now prepared for the next phase.

Write a New Boot Sector to USB Flash Drive
The commands you need to run are as follows:

1. Click the
   
   button, type Cmd.exe, right click the Cmd.exe, select "Run as administrator" from context menu.
2. Insert the DVD media into your PC or mount the Windows Setup ISO image.
3. At the elevated administrator Command Prompt change the Command Prompt directory path to the Boot folder that resides at the DVD media or mounted Windows Setup ISO image where bootsect.exe executable file lives.
4. Type Cd /d X:\Boot, replace the X: drive letter with the DVD media or mounted Windows Setup ISO image drive letter.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Write a new boot sector to the USB flash drive by entering bootsect /nt60 X: /force, where X: is the drive letter of the USB flash drive.

Some USB flash drives do not support this preparation process, and you might not be able to make the device bootable in this way. The devices that do not support this process are typically set so they are recognized as removable media devices and not USB disk devices. Because of this, you might need to refer to the device manufacturer’s Web site for formatting documentation and tools.





Copying the Installation Files
The final step, now that you have your USB flash drive prepared, is to copy the Windows O/S setup files.

1. Insert the DVD media into your PC or mount the Windows Setup ISO image and navigate to the drive on your computer that has the Windows O/S installation files.
2. Select all the files, and then right-click and select Copy.
3. Navigate to the root of the USB flash drive, right-click and click Paste.

The file copy can take a number of minutes, but after it has finished you can install the Windows O/S quickly on machines with USB flash drive.





You can also copy all the Windows installation files to the USB flash drive that you’ve been preparing with Xcopy command. In this example, the Windows 10 ISO image is mounted with the drive letter of V and the USB flash drive has the drive letter X. Knowing this, type the following command and press Enter:

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