On the login screen you might not see any difference, but after you have logged in you will see the Safe Mode text in all 4 corners of the screen.

Having a network connection in safe mode is really useful when it comes to troubleshooting and downloading new drivers. This option loads the minimum amount of drivers while keeping you connected to the internet. Choose 5 – Boot into safe mode with Networking.If you don’t see the Startup Settings option, then click “See more recovery options” at the bottom of the screen. Select Startup Settings and click Restart.Although it's a bit annoying that I wasn't smart enough to do it with a mac, I'll get over it.You can do this on the loginscreen as well as in Windows This approach worked, and I got a UEFI bootable usb stick, so thanks for your link. iso file I originally tried to copy with dd.

Next I tried with the Rufus tool, which got the job done using the same. I negotiated for some computing time on teh wife's pc laptop, and for some reason the microsoft Media Creation Tool (the first option in your link) failed with 'Something Happened 0x80070002 – 0x20016' error code (internets said you could try logging in as admin etc. Doesn't dd work in such a way that it directly writes the input (the dvd image) to the device, and the file system of the image will be copied over what ever the usb stick has?Īnyway, I now have a bootable usb media. If someone knows the details of this, I'd be happy to learn more.Īlso I don't believe that formatting matters at all. I'm not sure, but I think that all computers are not capable of booting an USB stick that has a file system of an optical media. Which is what I did and it produced the file system I pasted up there.

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