{"id":5979,"date":"2016-01-14T13:33:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-14T13:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=5979"},"modified":"2016-01-14T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-14T14:29:08","slug":"create-uefi-or-legacy-bootable-usb-drive-for-windows-10-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/create-uefi-or-legacy-bootable-usb-drive-for-windows-10-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"Create UEFI or Legacy Bootable USB Drive for Windows 10 Setup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Windows 10 computers use UEFI firmware instead of the traditional BIOS. As you probably noticed when using a MBR-partitioned Windows installation USB drive on a new Windows 10 PC, UEFI will not recognize it as a boot media. UEFI-based computer can only boot from GPT-partitioned USB drive. Luckily, for backward compatibility most of the UEFI systems can also be configured to <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/set-windows-8-pc-to-boot-with-legacy-bios-mode-instead-of-uefi-mode\/\">disable UEFI secure boot<\/a> and instead revert to legacy BIOS boot mode. In this tutorial we&#8217;ll explain how you can easily create a UEFI or legacy bootable USB drive for Windows 10 Setup.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A USB drive (a microSD, SD card or memory stick) with the minimum capacity 4 GB<\/li>\n<li>USB creation tool <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/iso2disc.html\" target=\"_blank\">ISO2Disc<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Windows 10 ISO image, which can be downloaded from <a style=\"text-decoration:underline;\"  rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-in\/software-download\/windows10\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft&#8217;s website<\/a> using its Media Creation Tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How to Create UEFI or Legacy Bootable USB Drive for Windows 10 Setup<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you have the Windows 10 ISO image on your PC, you can choose to make a Windows 10 bootable USB drive with UEFI or legacy bootloader. 64-bit UEFI PC can only boot 64-bit version of Windows 10, while 32-bit UEFI PC can boot 32-bit OS only. So if you want to install Windows 10 with UEFI mode, you have to download a correct version of Windows 10 ISO image.<\/p>\n<p>Before get started, make sure you backup all important files stored in your USB drive. The process of creating a bootable USB drive will erase all data and re-partition your USB drive.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Insert the USB drive into the USB port of your computer.<\/li>\n<li>Launch the ISO2Disc program. Click on <strong>Browse<\/strong> to select the Windows 10 ISO file.<\/li>\n<li>Now you have two options: make a bootable CD or USB drive. We&#8217;re explaining how to create a Windows 10 USB installer, so click on &#8220;<strong>Burn to USB Flash Drive<\/strong>&#8221; and select the drive letter of your USB disk from the list.<\/li>\n<li>Choose the partition style that is suitable for your target computer. If you want to install Windows 10 in UEFI mode on UEFI-based PC, choose the &#8220;<strong>GPT (required for UEFI boot)<\/strong>&#8221; option.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/iso2disc-uefi.png\" alt=\"iso2disc-uefi\" width=\"573\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5982\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Otherwise choose &#8220;<strong>MBR (for legacy BIOS \/ CSM boot)<\/strong>&#8221; for BIOS-based PC, or UEFI computer running in legacy BIOS\/CSM mode.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/iso2disc-legacy.png\" alt=\"iso2disc-legacy\" width=\"573\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5983\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Click on <strong>Start Burn<\/strong>. It will now create a Windows 10 USB installer. After creating, you&#8217;ll find out that a UEFI bootable USB drive was formatted as FAT32 because NTFS is not supported for external boot media under UEFI.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Of course, there are also some other USB creation tools available on the net, such as <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/rufus.akeo.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rufus<\/a>. It also allows you to create UEFI or legacy bootable USB installation drive from Windows 10 ISO image.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/rufus-uefi.png\" alt=\"rufus-uefi\" width=\"379\" height=\"568\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5984\" \/><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Windows 10 computers use UEFI firmware instead of the traditional BIOS. As you probably noticed when using a MBR-partitioned Windows installation USB drive on a new Windows 10 PC, UEFI will not recognize it as a boot media. UEFI-based computer can only boot from GPT-partitioned USB drive. Luckily, for backward compatibility most of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,1894],"tags":[2468,2466,2469,2467],"class_list":["post-5979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-10","tag-create-windows-10-bootable-usb","tag-create-windows-10-install-usb","tag-create-windows-10-uefi-bootable-usb","tag-windows-10-installation-usb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5979"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5994,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5979\/revisions\/5994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}