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This wikiHow teaches you how to use a USB flash drive to install a version of the Windows operating system onto a Windows computer. Using a USB flash drive is useful when your computer doesn't have a CD drive or when you don't have an operating system installation disc. Allows one to boot to usb drives to install windows 7 on macbook air w/o an external dvd drive:) More at tech-recipes.com. To install the drive, you must remove the 5.25-inch drive slot cover from the case. You remove the cover by pushing tabs either on the inside or outside of the case. Sometimes a cover may be screwed into the case.
I have searched on this site and others for the past few days and can't figure out how to solve this problem. I have an ASUS X205TA with Windows 8.1 that's currently not booting up properly because I deleted the recovery partition. It's giving an error now saying it can't start up with code 0xc0000225
I don't mind if that can't be fixed. My main purpose was to free up space for the Windows 10 installation. As I read through the forums now, it looks like I can plug in a USB drive and use that as a 'secondary' storage and it will install albeit a bit slower. It's too late for that now and I just want to get Windows 10 install if possible.
From what I read, this laptop is using UEFI instead of BIOS which is new to me since I haven't messed around with the more recent hardware changes. I downloaded Rufus and have set it to GPT partition scheme for UEFI computer and FAT32. I left the cluster size at 8192 bytes as well as 16 bytes without any difference. I also tried using a 16GB USB thumb drive and a 16GB micro SD card (laptop has a slot for it). Neither are recognized by the laptop when I try to select a device to boot from. It only shows the 'Windows Boot Manager' as the only option. I wiped out the USB thumb drive and just put a random file on it. Strangely the drive is detected when I didn't 'burn' the ISO image. I also tried using the Windows CD/DVD tool to copy the ISO over but from what I read that definitely won't work for UEFI. I got the WIndows 10 ISO file from the Microsoft media creation tool.
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ASUS tech support wasn't able to help me much either on this. I asked if there was a more recent BIOS firmware that may help and was told to download version 208 (I had 205 previously) and that didn't seem to change much in terms of my boot options. Trying to see if I can have the legacy mode in the BIOS.
I recommend simply burning rEFIt to a CD/DVD to boot to the Windows 7 install USB. Having had trouble trying to install it to the Mac itself (without the DVD), I usually boot to the rEFIt DVD, and continue to boot to my choice of operating system.
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Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
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Thanks.
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