System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6. If i were to use the usb win10 installer to 'repair installation' does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?Īlso is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.

Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.ĭownloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system. Rufus log Rufus x86 v Windows version: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit Syslinux versions: 4.07/, 6.04/pre1 Grub versions: 0.4.6a, 2.04 System locale ID: 0x0409 (en-US) Will use default UI locale 0x0409 SetLGP: Successfully set NoDriveTypeAutorun policy to 0x0000009E Localization set to 'en-US' Found USB 2.0 device 'Generic- Multi-Card USB Device' (0BDA:0158) Device eliminated because it appears to contain no media Found USB 2.0 device 'Memorex USB Flash Drive USB Device' (0718:7722) No logical drive found (unpartitioned?) Found USB 2.0 device ' USB SanDisk 3.2Gen1 USB Device' (0781:55AB) No logical drive found (unpartitioned?) 2 devices found No volume information for drive 0x83 Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 16 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes Cylinders: 1887, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63 Partition type: SFD (Super Floppy Disk) or unpartitioned 2 devices found No volume information for drive 0x82 Disk type: Removable, Disk size: 128 GB, Sector size: 512 bytes Cylinders: 14961, Tracks per cylinder: 255, Sectors per track: 63 Partition type: GPT, NB Partitions: 2 Disk GUID: Size: 114.6 GB (123059813888 bytes) Start Sector: 2048, Attributes: 0x0000000000000000 The first of our favored Windows tools for the job is Rufus, which has a familiar and uncluttered interface and can do all of the above mentioned things for us, with the exception of giving a Live Linux operating system the ability to retain changes after a reboot.This is called adding Persistence and is not currently an option in Rufus-v1.3.4.270 but our other recommended tools listed below. I adjust the timeout value in services to 2000. Error 0xc00305b4 The operation returned because the timeout period has expired. This is the error I receive when formatting my usb with Rufus.

Rufus not showing device