How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10

How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10? All my laptops were part of the Windows insider program and installed with Windows 10 prerelease versions.

I normally make a USB bootable drive and boot it from USB to build a clean Windows 10 machine. However, one of the laptops is Dell Precision M4600, and it doesn’t support USB bootable media. Hence I started finding out a way to clean install Windows 10.

How to Make Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install?

I can use my home SCCM lab to build a clean Windows 10. But I ended up creating a bootable DVD for Windows 10. Why do we need to install clean Windows 10? With Windows 10 RTM release, I thought of performing a clean install of Windows 10 on all machines.

I would recommend this when you face odd problems with your Windows 10 machines that are not there for others in the technical community or the outside world. Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10.

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How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10
How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10

Download  Windows 10 bootable USB/DVD Download Tool from Rufus – Create bootable USB drives the easy way. How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10.

Install the application on your Windows 10 or any other machine. Launch the application “Rufus” from Windows 10 start menu. Don’t get disappointed with the name of the application 🙂 It will work on Windows 10 and another operating system if you have the correct version of the .Net application!

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How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10

Once the application is launched, we need to browse and provide the correct patch of the ISO. I’m making Windows 10 bootable USB Drive hence providing Windows 10 ISO. I can make Windows Server 2012 bootable DVD with Server 2019 ISO.

Now, we need to choose the Media type. Some of the old machines don’t support bootable USB drives, and one example is Dell Precision M4600. When your machine supports a bootable USB drive for Windows 10 clean installation, select the media as a USB device; otherwise, burn bootable USB.

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Now the application will check whether the blank USB is there in your USB drive and if so, it will start the process of creating a bootable DVD. How to Create Windows 10 Bootable USB Drive for Clean Install | Make USB Bootable Drive for Windows 10?

Once the DVD burn process is completed, the Windows 10 bootable USB will come out from the DVD drive 🙂 and now you can use that USB to boot up your system :).

Change the bootable options to DVD or USB drive and press F12 or respective key to select the boot device from DVD or USB. Enjoy the clean Windows 10 !!

Resources

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Anoop is Microsoft MVP! He is a Solution Architect in enterprise client management with more than 20 years of experience (calculation done in 2021) in IT. He is a blogger, Speaker, and Local User Group HTMD Community leader. His main focus is on Device Management technologies like SCCM 2012, Current Branch, and Intune. E writes about ConfigMgr, Windows 11, Windows 10, Azure AD, Microsoft Intune, Windows 365, AVD, etc…

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