![]() This time I got the windows installer to boot,but it asks for a media driver. Inserted this into my drive,I had set the bios to bios mode before but set it to uefi,and disabled safe boot. I also copied the acer drivers to another usb 64 gig formatted as fat32,with the acer drivers. I copied the extracted window10 from a debian buster desktop to the first portion of this drive,then after downloading acer spin 1 113 drivers ,I copied them to the remaining portion of the drive. Read a post by linuxbabe,she says to format usb to a gpt partition then format it again with fat 32,note gparted does format my 64 gig usb drive all the way!no problem!so I partitioned it with a 7 gig fat32 partition and labeled it"boot/efi"!then I formated the remainder of the drive as fat 32. Well I tried several times to boot to my acer spin1,to no avail! ![]() All I know is when I tried this method on a whim it worked. There are probably easier tools to do this or ways to achieve it from a Windows installation, but it's hard to know exactly what they'll do whereas this is nice and simple, in that way at least. # It's safe to unplug the drive when the `umount` command finishes. Sudo umount /mnt/usb /mnt/iso # and wait some more. # Copy the installer files to the USB drive Sudo mount -o loop ~/path/to/windows.iso /mnt/iso # Create directories, and mount the ISO and the FAT32 filesystem to them # Format the newly-created partition with a Windows FAT32 filesystem # Now you should be back in your normal command shell with a prompt like "$" rather than "Command (m for help):" Q if it does not quit automatically after w W to write the partition table to the drive and quit (follow steps, for default position, size "+5G") O to clear out the partition table for a new empty one # Type the following single-letter commands to go through the process: # It will create a partition on the USB drive for you to use as a FAT32 filesystem. # You're now using fdisk, which has its own interactive interface. ![]() Sudo fdisk /dev/sdb # assuming "/dev/sdb" is the USB drive On Linux this can be done roughly as follows: sudo fdisk -l # to figure out which connected drive is which This booted perfectly and the installer finally made it to the next screen. ![]() The solution in my case was rather than copying the ISO straight to the drive, instead to create a 5GB FAT32 partition on there, mark it bootable, then copy the files from the ISO into that. I was having this same problem trying to install a Windows 10 ISO with any of several USB drives (16 and 32GB) on a Surface Pro 4 (which unfortunately has only one USB port, a USB 3 one, ruling out answer). ![]()
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