Q: Can't install Windows 10 from USB with Bootcamp
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Sep 21, 2015 3:43 PMby Loner T, -
Sep 21, 2015 4:10 PMby TReichMann,I looked at those links and tried following them before asking the question actually. I went through the motions again and I think my issue is that when I try and create the .iso image from the USB it uses the 32 bit version on the USB. The USB has the 32 bit and the 64 bit and obviously only 64 bit is supported for this bootcamp process. How do I get it to make the .iso off of the 64 bit version?
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Sep 21, 2015 4:14 PMby Loner T,Download only a 64-bit ISO from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/home using the same product key that you have for the combined version.
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Sep 21, 2015 5:11 PMby TReichMann,When I go to download from that site (which I also tried before asking the original question) I get a menu that asks me which windows edition I have which I select Windows 10 (as opposed to Windows 10 N or Windows 10 KN or Windows 10 Single Language) then I tell it I want the language to be English in the next dropdown menu and then I select the 64 bit iso file. At no point does it ask for my product key. After I download it, it is Win10_English_x64.iso.crdownload I tried using that and when I got the same system message.
"Your bootable USB drive could not be created
Boot Camp only supports Windows 7 or later installation on this platform. Please use an ISO file for Windows 7 or later installation."
I tried resaving it as Win10_English_x64.iso since it should be an .iso not a .crdownload or whatever that is.
Still got the above system message
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Sep 21, 2015 7:00 PMby Nukemsmith,All i did was copy the x64 files from the widows install thumb drive to the same drive the support files was and it started working for me. I guess since the x64 files are not in the root directory on the thumb drive boot camp doesn't know what to do since you can't tell it to look somewhere else.
