There also is a bit more complicated option where you set up the new hard drive with a system partition, and a boot partition. That can be overcome after the installation, though. The only downside to this is that you end up with a dual boot situation where after install you are presented with a boot menu that has two choices, Windows Setup and Windows. Windows setup will boot, then select the custom install option, then select the rest of the unallocated space on the HDD to install to. ![]() ![]() Then, in either case, install the HDD in the target computer and boot from it. Then copy the files and folders from the Windows 10 installation mounted ISO file to it. The FAT32 partition needs to be marked as active. If the target computer is legacy BIOS, then the HDD gets partitioned as MBR, with an 8 GB FAT32 partition at the end of it. ![]() If the target computer is UEFI, then you create an 8 GB partition formatted as FAT32 at the end of a GPT partitioned HDD and copy the files and folders from the Windows 10 installation mounted ISO file to the partition. Depending on whether the target computer is UEFI or legacy BIOS. He won't be able to boot from it, needs to be made external by USB adapter (USB to SATA), formatted to Fat32 and contents of ISO copied to it.That is not true at all.
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