Select FAT32 (Default) for the Filesystem and Default allocation size as shown below. That done, right-click the flash drive in Windows File Explorer and select 'Format' Note that a format will wipe all information currently stored on it, so ensure you've first copied anything from it that you may want to keep. The first thing you'll need to do is to Format a USB Flash Drive with at least 8 GB of space available.

At least an 8 GB Capacity Flash/Thumb Drive.

If creating the media using Windows 7, additional software is needed which is also desribed in the second half of this tutorial. The easiest way to accomplish the task is if you have access to any existing Windows 10 installed computer or laptop in order to create the media, as no other software is then required. Installation media has traditionally been distributed with a bootable CD/DVD in past years, however, these days most computers can also be booted from a USB device, and DVD media has slowly started being phased out for that purpose. People get confused with how to deal with the resulting ISO when using that method so here I'm going to cover what I consider to be the simplest way of doing it.

Understandably, many folks are now starting to sit up and take notice.Ī question that is frequently being posted in a variety of forums that I participate in includes what's the easiest way to upgrade (or install a new copy of) Windows 10 and how do I do it. Windows 7 extended support life will be stopped by Microsoft on January 14th, 2020.

Microsoft stopped mainstream support for Windows 7 on January 13, 2015, and the clock is now ticking on extended support as well. In much the same way as happened with Windows XP, many have hung on to Windows 7 and have yet to upgrade to Windows 10.

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