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#1 What Can You Do with a UEFI Bootable Disk
#2 3 Ways to Create a UEFI Bootable USB Drive
#3 How to Boot Windows 10 from a UEFI Bootable USB Drive
#4 Bonus Tip: How to Use a WinPE Bootable Disk to Fix Hard Disk and Recover Data

How to create a bootable Windows 10 UEFI USB drive? We all know that there are two types of boot modes on a computer: BIOS and UEFI. If your PC uses the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) instead of the traditional Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), you need to know how to create a bootable UEFI USB drive on Windows 10.

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There are several ways to create a bootable disk in UEFI mode. Let's learn about them. If you like the methods provided, and this page helped you solve some of your problems, don't forget to share it with your friends so that they can also free themselves from the hassle of computer management:

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Create a UEFI bootable USB for Windows Boot Repair

  • Duración: 10-15 minutos
  • Usuario objetivo: Principiantes y no técnicos
  • Sistemas operativos compatibles: Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8.1/8, Windows 7 y versiones anteriores

When your computer fails to boot, you can use the UEFI WinPE bootable media to access your computer and fix errors or manage hard drives. A reliable partition manager tool – tools Partition Master, with its bootable media creation feature, allows you to create a UEFI bootable drive and successfully solve PC boot issues.

Then, you can use advanced solutions to fix and manage the hard drive or recover data by cloning the hard drive. Here are the steps to create a WinPE bootable USB drive:

Step 1: To create a bootable Partition Master tool disk, you will need a storage medium such as a USB drive, a flash drive, or a CD/DVD disc. Connect it properly to your computer.

Step 2. Launch Partition Master, find “Bootable Media” on the left and click it.

Step 3: When the drive is detected, you can choose between USB or CD/DVD. However, if you don't have a spare storage device, you can also save the ISO file to your local drive and burn it to media later. After making your choice, click on the “Create” button to start the creation process.

    • Review the warning, and then click Yes.

Step 4: When it's done, you'll get a prompt asking if you want to restart your computer from the bootable USB drive.

    • Boot now: Restart your computer immediately and boot from the tool's media, without managing disk partitions in the operating system.
    • Finish: Do not restart your current computer, but use the bootable USB device on a new one.
Boot from the USB drive

Note: To use the bootable disk on a new computer, you'll need to restart the target computer and press F2/F8/DEL to enter BIOS, and set the USB bootable disk as the first boot device.

Wait patiently, and your computer will automatically boot from the USB boot media and into the WinPE tools desktop.

Enter the WinPE desktop

After creating the Partition Master bootable disk, you can access your computer and disks from it for further disk repair. To learn step by step how to fix PC boot issues, refer to this tutorial:

Aside from fixing Windows boot issues, you can also use the Partition Master tool to create a bootable USB drive to wipe hard drive or install Windows 10 from USB easily.

How to Create a UEFI Bootable USB Drive in Three Manual Ways

In this part, we will teach you three common manual methods to create a bootable USB drive using Windows 10 Media Creation Tool, Diskpart, and a third-party tool Rufus.

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1. Use the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool

The Media Creation Tool from Microsoft can be used to create a UEFI-bootable USB media for an in-place upgrade or a clean install of Windows 10.

To create a Windows 10 UEFI bootable USB, you'll need a USB flash drive with at least 8 GB of capacity. Follow these steps:

Step 1: Download the Windows 10 installation media from the official Microsoft website.

Download the Windows 10 installation media

Step 2: Run the “MediaCreationTool” and click “Accept” to agree to the license terms.

Step 3: On the Windows 10 setup screen, choose “Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC.” Click the “Next” button.

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Step 4: On the Language, Version, and Architecture screen, click “Next.” Select the “USB flash drive” option, and then click “Next.”

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Step 5: Select the USB flash drive that's connected, and then click “Next > Finish” to complete the process. Wait for the Media Creation Tool to download the files and create a bootable USB flash drive that you can use to install Windows 10 on a device that supports either UEFI or BIOS.

Using Diskpart

Using the built-in Diskpart tool, you can also create a Windows 10 UEFI bootable USB drive. Keep in mind that this solution requires command-line work, so if you're not confident, it's best to opt for a simpler graphical solution.

Creating a bootable USB drive will erase everything on it. Make sure to back up any important files and data beforehand.

Step 1: Connect the USB flash drive to your computer.

Step 2: Type CMD in the search box, right-click on “Command Prompt,” and select “Run as administrator.”

Step 3. Type diskpart at the command prompt, and press Enter.

Step 4: Enter each of the following commands in order, hitting Return after you type each one.

**Display disk list** **Select disk number** **Clean the disk** **Create primary partition** **Select partition 1** **Activate partition** **Format as FAT32 file system** (This means you will format the drive with the FAT32 file system) **Assign a drive letter** **Exit**

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5. Copy the Windows installation files to the USB flash drive.

    Insert the Windows installation DVD and assume it's assigned the drive letter “G:”. Open a command prompt and type:
  1. g: (replace g with the letter of your DVD drive)
  2. cd boot (to navigate to the Boot folder)
  3. bootsect /nt60 e: (replace e with the letter of your USB drive)
  4. cd \
  5. G:\xcopy f:\*.* /s/h/f f:\ (/s to copy directories and subdirectories, /h to copy hidden and system files, /f to display full source and target file names during copying).

Wait for the process to complete. That's it – you've now created a bootable UEFI USB drive with Windows 10.

Together with Rufus

If you have trouble using Diskpart to create a Windows 10 UEFI bootable USB drive, you can use the open-source program Rufus. Rufus lets you create a UEFI boot disk for Windows 10/8/7.

Step 1: Download Rufus from its official website: https://rufus.ie/en/.

Step 2: Connect the USB flash drive to your computer.

Step 3: Run the program and make the following main settings:

    • Device: Select your USB flash drive.
    • Boot Selection: Choose Disk or ISO Image. Then click the "SELECT" button to choose your Windows 10 ISO file from a file location.
    • Partition Scheme: For UEFI, select GPT.
    • Target System: Choose UEFI (non-CSM).
    • File System: Select NTFS.

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Leave the other options as they are, then click the “START” button to have Rufus create your UEFI bootable USB drive.

How to Boot a Windows 10 Computer from a USB Drive in UEFI Mode

You can create a bootable UEFI USB drive using any of the methods above on Windows 10. Once you've created the bootable drive, you'll also need to know how to boot your computer from the bootable USB drive.

Follow these steps to boot your computer from the Windows 10 bootable UEFI USB drive:

Step 1: Connect the UEFI-bootable USB disk to the unbootable, in-accessible “dead” Windows computer.

Step 2. Restart your computer and press F2/F11/DEL to enter BIOS.

Step 3. In the Boot Drive section, set your bootable USB device as the boot drive.

Step 4: Save your changes and exit the BIOS. Wait for your computer to boot from the UEFI-bootable USB drive.

Set USB Flash Drive as Boot Disk

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# What can you do with a UEFI bootable disk?

Here are the most important reasons to use a bootable USB disk. With a UEFI bootable USB drive, you can:

    • Perform in-place Windows upgrades • Clean install Windows 10 • Boot the system when it fails to start due to virus attacks, damaged MBR, bad sectors, corrupted system files, and more • Boot the computer for disk checking and repair

A UEFI bootable disk also enables you to use a portal operating system on an external computer to back up your system, for added data security.

Closing up

How to create a UEFI bootable USB on Windows 10? If you're still wondering about this, you can find the answer here. You can create a UEFI bootable drive in four ways using Windows 10 Setup Media, Diskpart, Rufus, etc.

If you need to boot the computer from a bootable USB drive and manage or fix the disk in a WinPE environment, we highly recommend Partition Master, which allows you to clone the failed hard drive to a new HDD/SSD.

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