Universal USB Installer – Easy as 1 2 3 Universal USB Installer aka UUI is a Live Linux Bootable USB Creator that allows you to choose from a selection of Linux Distributions to put on your USB Flash Drive.
“Windows was unable to complete the format”Many users would meet the error: “Windows was unable to complete the format” whenthey try to format their USB drive to FAT 32 or NTFS in Windows Explorer. But whywould this happen?There are many causes that can lead Windows format USB drive failed such as virusinfection, the storage device damage, or there has bad sectors on the USB drive, orthe USB drive is write-protected. Well, how can you format USB drive successfullyunder those circumstances?
Ways to format USB drive successfullyYou may have a lot of problem about those questions, and you may take a lot ofmeasures to overcome those bad situations like kill virus, or release thewrite protection, and so on. Actually, there are many easier solutions. Solution 1: Disk Management format USB driveWhen you cannot format USB drive in Windows Explorer, or the USB drive not shows inMy computer or Windows Explorer, you can go to the Windows Disk Management to formatUSB drive.Step1.
Open Windows Disk Management by typing “diskmgmt.msc” and pressing Enterin the search box.Step2. Right-click the USB drive and select Format at the menu.Step3. Then, select a file system to format USB drive into FAT 32, or NTFS, orothers. Click OK to start.However, if the USB drive is shown as unallocated space in Disk Management, here youneed right-click the unallocated space, select “New Simple Volume” to for the USB drive. After creating partition on the USB drive,you will find that it has been formatted and it can be recognized by WindowsExplorer. Solution 2: Diskpart format USB driveMostly, when the computer cannot recognize a USB drive, you can try to use Diskpartto format USB drive.
Diskpart is a built-in tool that manage your hard drives. Youcan use it to format disk including internal or external hard drive. Diskpart formatUSB drive is much more effective than Windows Explorer. Here we’ll take an exampleof how to format USB drive with Diskpart while it is not shown in WindowsExplorer.1. Open the command prompt by typing “cmd” at the search box, right-click theprogram and select Run as Administrator.2. Then,type “diskpart” and press enter to launch the program.3.
Next, type “list disk” to display all disks on your computer.4. Type “select disk 2” and press Enter.
Here disk 2 is the USB drive.5. Type “clean” and press Enter.6. Type “create partition primary”, press Enter.7. Type “format fs=fat32 quick” or “format fs=ntfs quick” and press Enterto format USB drive to FAT 32 or NTFS as you want.Finally, type 'exit' to end up this, and you have already finished the taskabout Diskpart format USB. Then, you can active the partition and forthe USB drive. For all this, Diskpart is dangerous for people who do not familiarwith Diskpart cause all the operations cannot be revoked once the progress launched.Thus, if there is one mistake, you may get into a big trouble. Fortunately, there isanother easy way to format USB drive that even a noob can do it alone.
Solution 3: Format USB drive with AOMEI Partition Assistantisa remarkable free software that can manage your hard drive in Windows 7/8/10. Youcan use it to create/resize/delete/format/move/ in a fewsimple mouse-clicks in its intuitive interface. Format USB drive could be muchsimpler than Windows Disk Management or Diskpart format USB.Step 1. Plug in your USB drive to your computer., install and launch it. Alldisks on your hard dive will be shown on its concise main interface.Step 2.
Right-click your USB drive, select FormatPartition at the drop-down menu.Step 3. Here you can select the file system you need, edit thepartition label and the cluster size.Step 4. Finally, click Apply at thetoolbar to submit the operations.Even though, AOMEI Partition Assistant still provides you the way to including format USB drive with command prompt.
AOMEI PartitionAssistant format USB drive is a good alternative to Diskpart format USB drive.Besides, you can use it to do many other things for managing your hard drive better.
For better or for worse, this is how Microsoft has chosen to verify the free upgrade - you will only be able to activate the new OS if you perform an in-place upgrade to Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. You can not clean install Windows 10 using a Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 product key.In order to begin the upgrade, click the 'Get Windows 10' icon in your system tray and follow the on-screen instructions.Don't see the icon?
You might be able to manually trigger the update. First, make sure you have automatic Windows Updates enabled in control panel, then launch an elevated Command Prompt (Win+X, then choose 'Command Prompt Admin') and enter the following command: wuauclt.exe/updatenowWindows 10 should then begin to download and, provided you had a genuine copy of Windows 7 or Windows 8 to begin with, Windows 10 will install and activate automatically. The activation should be instant, but there have been teething problems presumably due to the strain being placed on Microsoft's servers - wait a while and Windows 10 will activate itself. Step 3 - the clean installOnce you've completed the in-place upgrade to Windows 10, verify that your installation is activated by heading to Settings and then Update & Security. You should see something like this:Your free upgrade has worked and the device you are using is now authorised to use the stated edition of Windows 10. This eligibility is recorded on Microsoft's servers, though we're uncertain at this stage whether the authorisation is tied to hardware IDs or your Microsoft account - we suspect it's a bit of both.Either way, the device is now Windows 10 activated, and that means the new OS can be re-installed on the same hardware at your heart's content. You don't need a key, you simply install the OS and it'll activate whenever you're online.
You just need an Internet connection.That means we're finally ready to clean install. Here's what you do:.
Boot from the USB drive you created in Step 1. This may require re-ordering the boot sequence in your BIOS, though some systems allow you to choose a boot device by pressing F12 at startup. You'll then be greeted by the Windows 10 installation wizard. The first screen will ask you for a product key, but seeing as you've followed all the steps thus far, your device is already activated so you can happily skip this step. Once you've accepted Microsoft's software license terms, you'll be asked to choose which type of installation you want - upgrade, or custom. Choose 'Custom: Install Windows Only (Advanced)'. You'll now see a list of available hard drives and partitions.
If you have just the one drive, and you've backed up all the data you want to keep, you can delete all the existing partitions and then select the one remaining unpartitioned volume (Drive 0). The install wizard will then automatically configure the drive and continue. The installation should then begin and after a restart or two, you'll eventually arrive at a screen stating 'It's time to enter the product key.' Fear not, click the 'Do this later' option hiding near the bottom of the screen. Choose your account preferences and you'll arrive in a clean Windows 10 desktop.
Go online (if you aren't already) and Windows 10 will automatically activate by recognising the device.It's a bit of a long-winded process, and we do wish Microsoft had allowed Windows 10 installations using Windows 7 or Windows 8 keys, but then it is a free upgrade so we're willing to jump through a few hoops.Now that it's done, enjoy your fresh install and take solace in the fact that your next clean install of Windows 10 on the same device will be much easier - you'll only need to repeat Step 3. What else do you need to know?You might be wondering what happens if you upgrade your current PC to Windows 10 and then decide to build a new machine? Given that Windows 10 will be tied to your current machine, we don't imagine you'll be able to transfer the activation to another system.How does that translate to smaller hardware changes? That remains a bit of a grey area, but we've changed the hard disk in one of our Windows 10 PCs and we've been able to carry out another clean install and activate without a problem.
We suspect that bigger changes - a new motherboard, for example - may scupper the activation but we've yet to confirm that this is the case.What if you're running Windows XP or Windows Vista? Sadly, you're out of luck - the free upgrade offer is only applicable to users of Windows of Windows 7 and Windows 8.What if you've bought a retail copy of Windows 10?
You can go straight to Step 3 and clean install using the product key that came with your software.And then there's the big question: should you even bother upgrading to Windows 10? It is, in our estimation, shaping up to be the best Windows to date, however it's also unique in that this is the first Windows to be delivered as a service. What this means is that Windows is changing from a product that sees periodic major releases to one that's frequently being updated.
As such, Windows 10 is never entirely finished, and at launch there are still bugs being squashed - there's already been a day-one patch weighing in at over 1GB.Waiting for the quirks to be ironed out isn't the worst idea, and the free upgrade offer is currently scheduled to run until July 29, 2016, so there's really no hurry. And who knows, other, less-convoluted methods of clean installing may become available in that time. Directhex A few observations:.
If you hit the Media Creation Tool website from non-Windows, you get an ISO download instead of the tool. To make a UEFI-bootable stick from an ISO, just format the stick as FAT32 and copy-paste all the files from the ISOThe stick needs to have the primary partition as active before that will work and a lot of people might forget that, the tool does that for them at least. Although they could download Rufus to make it really simple if they don;t know how to do that:) Also no need to do wuauclt.exe/updatenow after creating pen drive cause sometimes that fails, just run setup.exe from the root of the pen drive whilst in windows and it will 100% work then.
Comments are closed.
|
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
January 2023
Categories |