[SOLVED] Why don't I have prompt to install windows 10 on my new computer?

[JammySlash]

I just finished building my first pc and I was able to get windows 10 installation media tool onto a flash drive but when I put the flash drive into a port and boot my pc I am met with this screen where my bios logo is oddly split in half at the bottom of my screen and the windows logo floating in the middle and there is no prompt to install windows. I've tried reinstalling windows 10 on the flash drive, pressing enter on my keyboard, and using different USB ports but nothing seems to work.
My specs are:
-MSI MPG B550 gaming carbon wifi motherboard

• Ryzen 5 5600x
• MSI ventus 3070

-16gb of corsair vengance rgb pro ram
-Corsair RM750 power supply
-WD blue SSD 500gb
-Seagate Hard drive 2TB
-Corsair H100i RGB Platinum SE CPU cooler

 

[Colif]

i would try running another OS off USB and see if it gets any further - https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/create-a-usb-stick-on-ubuntu#1-overview

Do you have latest bios for motherboard?

first step of installer is to load it into ram, maybe its stuck?

Try running memtest86 on each of your ram sticks, one stick at a time, up to 4 passes. Only error count you want is 0, any higher could be cause of the error. Remove/replace ram sticks with errors.
Memtest is created as a bootable USB so that you don’t need windows to run it



try another USB drive?

 

[TerryLaze]

On completely new and empty disks the installer will also check the disks and partition the boot drive to add the uefi/boot partition, which will take a long time.
At least I think so, could be wrong.
If you do hear disk activity it could be this.
You are supposed to partition and activate disks beforehand.

 

[Bob.B]

I just finished building my first pc and I was able to get windows 10 installation media tool onto a flash drive but when I put the flash drive into a port and boot my pc I am met with this screen where my bios logo is oddly split in half at the bottom of my screen and the windows logo floating in the middle and there is no prompt to install windows. I've tried reinstalling windows 10 on the flash drive, pressing enter on my keyboard, and using different USB ports but nothing seems to work.
My specs are:
-MSI MPG B550 gaming carbon wifi motherboard

• Ryzen 5 5600x
• MSI ventus 3070

-16gb of corsair vengance rgb pro ram
-Corsair RM750 power supply
-WD blue SSD 500gb
-Seagate Hard drive 2TB
-Corsair H100i RGB Platinum SE CPU cooler

Remove the flash stick and power down.
Power up.
Can you get into the bios?
If yes power down and plug in the flash stick.
Power up and enter the bios make the flask stick first on the boot list.
Exit the bios.
What happens?

 

[Colif]

On completely new and empty disks the installer will also check the disks and partition the boot drive to add the uefi/boot partition, which will take a long time.

installer doesn't touch drives until you are half way through install process. Only after you show it where to install will it look at drives. This is at initial installer start up phase, it creates a ram drive to run the files on USB, or should.

 

[SkyNetRising]

On completely new and empty disks the installer will also check the disks and partition the boot drive to add the uefi/boot partition, which will take a long time.

It doesn't take long at all.

You are supposed to partition and activate disks beforehand.

No, you're not supposed to do that.

 

[TerryLaze]

No, you're not supposed to do that.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...indows-from-a-usb-flash-drive?view=windows-11

Step 1 - Format the drive and set the primary partition as active

1. Connect the USB flash drive to your technician PC.
2. Open Disk Management: Right-click on Start and choose Disk Management.
3. Format the partition: Right-click the USB drive partition and choose Format. Select the FAT32 file system to be able to boot either BIOS-based or UEFI-based PCs.
   Note
   FAT32 has a file size limit of 4GB If your WIM image is larger than 4 GB, see If your Windows image is larger than 4GB below.
4. Set the partition as active: Right-click the USB drive partition and click Mark Partition as Active.
   Note
   If Mark Partition as Active isn't available, you can instead use diskpart to select the partition and mark it active.

 

[JammySlash]

I updated my bios and it seems to be working fine now. Thank you all for the help! 😀

 

[SkyNetRising]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...indows-from-a-usb-flash-drive?view=windows-11

Those are instructions for setting up USB windows installation media
(not for setting up windows OS drive).

 

[kerberos_20]

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...indows-from-a-usb-flash-drive?view=windows-11

those documents are fine if you want customised installation media...most people will choose media creation tool