OS installation on secondary drive

[iBoughtWinrar]

So my friend's computer recently got some corrupted OS files, and i wanted to help him reinstall windows 10. I formatted the drive as it was for no use, and proceeded to create a bootable USB device, which his computer wont recognise. When i plug it in, it doesnt do anything, and when i attempt to create a new boot media, it simply goes into the USB and wants me to select a file, and it doesnt even let me choose the exe file anyway. So i was wondering if i can connect his drive to my own computer and run the ISO installation file on there without damaging my drive with windows 10?

 

[USAFRet]

So my friend's computer recently got some corrupted OS files, and i wanted to help him reinstall windows 10. I formatted the drive as it was for no use, and proceeded to create a bootable USB device, which his computer wont recognise. When i plug it in, it doesnt do anything, and when i attempt to create a new boot media, it simply goes into the USB and wants me to select a file, and it doesnt even let me choose the exe file anyway. So i was wondering if i can connect his drive to my own computer and run the ISO installation file on there without damaging my drive with windows 10?

No, you can't install the OS while the drive is in your system, and then move it over to his system.

You need to figure out why it isn't booting up from the install in his system, and install the OS on the drive in there.

 

[iBoughtWinrar]

So my friend's computer recently got some corrupted OS files, and i wanted to help him reinstall windows 10. I formatted the drive as it was for no use, and proceeded to create a bootable USB device, which his computer wont recognise. When i plug it in, it doesnt do anything, and when i attempt to create a new boot media, it simply goes into the USB and wants me to select a file, and it doesnt even let me choose the exe file anyway. So i was wondering if i can connect his drive to my own computer and run the ISO installation file on there without damaging my drive with windows 10?

No, you can't install the OS while the drive is in your system, and then move it over to his system.

You need to figure out why it isn't booting up from the install in his system, and install the OS on the drive in there.

I reformatted the USB device as bootable and plugged it into another usb port, and i dont know for what reason, but it suddenly worked. Thanks for the reply, i marked it as the solution.