Make Ssd Bootable Windows 10

[Lenora Rademacher]

Im trying to use the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool from the Microsoft Store to make my new 16 GB USB Flash drive bootable to install Windows. It worked the first time that I did this (for Windows 7 Pro 32-bit), but now it keeps failing at the end. (I'm trying to make it bootable with the Windows 7 Pro 64-bit installation DVD ISO.) I've tried to do this on two different computers (Windows XP Pro 32-bit & Windows 7 Pro 32-bit) with the same error:

Files copied successfully. However, we were unable to run bootsect to make the USB device bootable. If you need assistance with bootsect, please click the "Online Help" link above for more information.

Clicking the link just takes me to the Microsoft store homepage, and a search for bootsect from there yields no search results. I've tried to burn a DVD twice using Sonic RecordNow!, but even though it finishes without "errors," the disk is unreadable. :( Does anyone know why this keeps failing and how I may fix it?

This morning I decided to try using it to boot with the Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installer image loaded on it, despite the failure, just to see what would happen. Surprise-surprise, it worked. -_-

To make the USB device bootable, you need to run a tool named bootsect.exe. In some cases, this tool needs to be downloaded from your Microsoft Store account. This may happen if you're trying to create a 64-bit bootable USB device from a 32-bit version of Windows. To download bootsect:

Right-click the link, and then save the bootsect.exe file to the location where you installed the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool (e.g. %UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Apps\Windows 7 USB DVD Download Tool).

Even with this warning, it still should boot as far as I understand, but the reason it didn't for me was because I had an older BIOS, so what I ended up doing was using the Rufus USB tool with the following settings:

I was trying to create Win7x64 bootable USB stick. Using WinXPx32 SP3, the tool failed for me as described. Luckily, I was able to get access to a Win7x64 machine instead, and there it worked just fine.

it says missing bootmngr or something like that. I'm on ubuntu 12.04 or whatever, the newest one using the gparted to format to NTSC and then unetbootin to install the bootloader, and the iso, then restart. also, i do not know how to use terminal or code..and im also using an external hardrive because this laptop is missing one...

If Windows is what you're trying to install, then Windows 7 bootable USB DVD download tool from Microsoft (Also works on XP) allows you to create a bootable version of windows 7 OS for installing windows through USB drive. To download this utility click Here.

Once downloaded navigate to the folder where the file was downloaded, most likley the Downloads folder, and open terminal there. Just press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open Terminal. When it opens, run the command(s) below:

Your computer is set to start up from the system partition on Drive 0. In order to boot to Drive 1 you need to establish a system partition on Drive 1, and then set the system to boot from that drive. To make a system partition on Drive 1, you would need to move/resize the Windows Partition to make room for the (new) system partition.

On your first disk you have the 500 MB EFI partition which you need to boot Windows 10. That is a Windows requirement. So when you remove that disk, with that partition, you cannot boot Windows. You need to recreat that on Disk 2. Perhaps the easiest way is to clone disk 1 to disk 2.

Recognise that any advice that I will try to give on what you want to do is likely to have errors and may cause you to need a reinstall anyhow. I have never tried what you are attempting and I have not taken time to research all the questions that have come to me in writing this. And I confess that I normally use Linux which has its own ways of dealing with Windows. If you have any valuable data on the PC, I would advice you to back it up.

You will have read that UEFI is now the accepted standard for booting PCs and laptops and that is what you have used to get to where you are. I think that a Windows install also adds (emergency?) boot information to that end partition but I think we can ignore that. Effectively you need to shrink the second drive by at least 550 MB and that can be done from within Windows. Hopefully you can shrink it from the front because that is where you need it. You can use gparted to do this which is a live Linux programme that will boot on the PC totally independent of Windows and will run from a USB stick. See .

If it were me I would use gparted to format that 550 MB to FAT32 and set the boot and ESP flags. Now remove the first drive or you could try moving any files from the first hard drive partition to the new 550 MB partition. With just the one hard drive in try booting Windows again or try a Windows repair.

To recap, my problem was that I had an SSD 250GB disk with a single NTFS Windows partition taking up the entire disk. So it needed a 2nd SSD drive containing an old boot partition in order to be usable. If either drive were to fail, my system would not be bootable.

So I made a post earlier about a Mac I got, and I figured out I can make a usb stick with macOS on it, but this is the first Mac I ever had, and my earlier pc has windows 10. So is there any way I can make a bootable usb stick with windows?

I used a software called UltraDMG to make a macOS bootable USB drive on my Windows 11. You only need to prepare your Windows ISO file and a USB drive, and the software will take care of the rest for you.

The best way to make a bootable macOS USB is on a Mac with the help you createinstallmedia command. Apple has a step-by-step guide for that: Create a bootable installer - Apple Support

However, if you could not get a Mac to do this and only have a Windows PC, then it is also possible to make a macOS bootable USB installer. Instead, the process is a bit more complicated. First, you should download a copy of macOS DMG file and burn it to a USB drive in order to make the USB bootable for macOS installation. Here is an easy guide for doing this: Burn DMG to USB on Windows 10 PC The Ultimate Guide Medium

Did you read the linked Apple article provided by @ku4hx and others including myself? @ku4hx gave a sample command taken from the linked Apple article for creating a bootable macOS 13.x Ventura USB installer. The command differs slightly for different versions of macOS you are creating. Plus the instructions to get the full macOS installer differs depending on which installer you need.

No one can assist you with the errors encountered without knowing exactly what command you used and which macOS installer you are trying to create. It is best if we see a screenshot of the Terminal window showing the command used and the complete error message. The instructions in these two articles work if followed precisely (although the macOS 10.12 Sierra will fail due to a problem with its installer.....known bug Apple decided to ignore instead of fixing). Access to another compatible Mac is necessary to perform those instructions if your current Mac is unable to boot normally or into Safe Mode. Macs generally from Late-2009+ do have access to Internet Recovery Mode as well in order to access the online macOS installer if you don't have access to a compatible Mac to create a bootable macOS USB installer.

If you have a Mac from 2010+ (perhaps even a Late-2009 model), then that Mac may have access to the online macOS installers through Internet Recovery Mode....using Command + Option + R is best since it should access the most recent installer compatible with your Mac, or if there is only a local recovery mode, then it should allow you to access the installer without authenticating with an AppleID which would fail since your AppleID never "purchased" any of the older macOS installers.

Otherwise, you would need access to another Mac which is able to utilize an OS your own Mac can use. For example if your Mac is compatible with macOS 10.13, then you would generally need access to another Mac from Late-2009 to 2018 in order to create a bootable macOS 10.13 USB installer since only those model Macs are compatible with macOS 10.13 (the Macs can currently be running any version of macOS 10.6+). You can use this article to determine which versions of macOS are compatible with various Apple hardware in order to determine the versions of macOS your Mac is compatible and to verify whether any other Macs you have access to are also compatible.

FYI, you should always provide the exact model of Mac so we can provide as many options as possible since some older Macs used macOS DVD installers, while newer Macs (2018+) have options for a firmware "Restore" although the latter still requires access to another newer Mac. You can get the exact model by clicking the Apple menu and selecting "About this Mac", or if it has no bootable macOS, then enter the system serial number here:

Please provide the exact model of the Mac. Use the "Check Coverage" link in my earlier post to get the exact model of your Mac. We need to know the exact model in order to know which options are available to you for reinstalling macOS.

When the Mac is booting into the "utilities", is it asking for a WiFi connection & WiFi password? Does this Mac have a wired network connection when it enters the "utilities" screen? Again, this is important to know how you are actually accessing recovery mode.

I seriously do not understand why people always want to answer questions no one asked. What if a mac is left in an unbootable state you still going to tell them it is simple on the mac when they can't boot it ? Maybe they are fixing it for a friend and have 20 years experience on macs but do not have one any more and need to do so on windows i mean seriously

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