Hey
Kind of busy day for reading far back convos, but I found other reasons for me to need to create another Win 10 usb.

Can you tell me exactly where to go to create it?
when i type it google. media creation tool
First thing that pops up is windows 10 website.
I thought it was supposed be a different program or something. or rufus?

Last Windows usb i made was in march I believe. So if I do this now, I want make sure I do it the way it will probably work with my X58 as well.

Thanks

@rangeyrover
Welcome and thank you for the successful report.
Most of the work is done by the people @ https://github.com/tianocore/edk2
All I did was making the current BUILD by sticking together few things.

@1xstealthx1
DOWNLOAD from Microsoft the MEDIA CREATION TOOL and follow it's self-explanatory instruction to make the USB directly from it.
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=691209

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #329

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With the NVME adapter @1xstealthx1 linked few post back, I'll take us forward and bring us to the discussion that he might not be able to fully shutdown the system from the OS in UEFI.
Might not happen, perhaps it's vendor vs specific device, but.. we'll see once he is done setting this up and got it running..

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@silekonn

I don't know the specifications of the aforementioned adapter.
On cheaply made adapter the stand-by PIN might be bypassed and the signal rerouted without ground.
If something like that happen on your system: remove the NVME from the adapter and use a better one, promptly.

Zitat von noInk im Beitrag #349

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@silekonn

I don't know the specifications of the aforementioned adapter.
On cheaply made adapter the stand-by PIN might be bypassed and the signal rerouted without ground.
If something like that happen on your system: remove the NVME from the adapter and use a better one, promptly.

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@silekonn

Without an interposer connected to something capable to decode the NVME protocol on the fly, a debug UEFI environment capable to write the command trace on something, or a digital multimeter: the easiest way is to check if the PC power off.

NoInk. I thought I had to do something special with the OS.
I basically just recreating another one.

I was thinking Windows tools is Microsoft thing. I forgot that Media Creation is windows software. (That's why there is confusion)
This will probably bring me back to square one, but I'll try it later and see what it does.

I'm pretty sure I have to make a rufus type and extremely busy to do that one.

@1xstealthx1

Nope, there nothing special to do.
Either it work, or it doesn't there are no catch.
Use the tool from Microsoft to make their USB installer and call it done.

Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #100

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Here is a img of the error I am getting. EDIT: OK, tested on two different perfectly good machines, and this duet I downloaded above does not work. During boot it says MBR failed and that there is no operating system found, please install boot media and reboot, or something like that. Now what? lol



EDIT2: I suspect it might be the new Fall creators update for some reason. I just tried it on 3 different USB drives and I get the exact same thing "ERROR: Write DBR: failed - Failed to read/write files (LastError: 0x5)!" on all 3 usb drives from two different machines. That seems impossible to me, especially since these previously worked earlier in the year for the same use.

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Yes I believe Fall Creators didn't work for me either, but that was last year so I may not be remembering correctly. However this years April Spring Creators 1803 update and the download from the OP works perfectly on every flash drive I have tried it on. Microsoft must have broke something last Fall, lol

Glad you got it working though.

This week I am building my first Ryzen machine so I won't be needing this implementation any more. I do have several other machines that are Legacy BIOS so we never know when I will be upgrading their SSD's. I have several M.2 adapters so maybe I will eventually be using DUET again some day down the road. NVMe might be great for my 10 year old Xeon media/file Server.

Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #355

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However this years April Spring Creators 1803 update and the download from the OP works perfectly on every flash drive I have tried it on.

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@phusg Reply with a @noInk so that the OP is informed of your issue, that way we get someone who knows what they are doing, lol.

The audiocricket DUET worked for me every time I tried it, but that was way back in late 2016 and January 2017. I ran that duet for a very long time until I found this thread.

Yep, I implemented a dirty fix to write the DBR some time back.

@phusg sould ask audiocricket, or make the USB with the file from the first post and replace the DUET firmware manually if he's testing thing.
The version here is 2017 December. The gitlab one is 2011.
About the skulltrail platform it might be better to use REFIND alone with the UEFI boot option from the bios set to ENABLED.
The unseen error might be the reloading off certain uefi driver or something in the same memory space. Dunno.

The Audicricket site doesn't ever reply to inquiries. I tried for month after month after month and was never replied to. The author created it and then almost immediately abandoned it, if I remember correctly.

EDIT: Ok looks like he was replying to people again only 3 Months ago using Disqus at the bottom of the site. Interesting...

Hey

It looks like I give up.

Windows 7 doesn't detect Drive
Windows 10 detects drive, cannot load to it. (Completes all the way till last step when you pick your drive)
Windows 10 Via Duet freezes when you start the very first step on Windows 10, shows Window logo and hangs all day. (never gets to the little loading circle) then after a while the keyboard dies off, and turns off. (but machine stays frozen at that screen) (similar to that issue Fish1717 guy was having, he never got back to us, to tell us what happened)

Windows 10 is fresh through media creation (Windows 10 from March or earlier showed same issue)

So hey Skorpn or noInk

Anyone want to take my build and take a crack at it? I can ship it to you, just little experiment. I know there is no promises.
My guess is Duet is inable to launch the Windows 10 on this board. (And windows 7 isn't even detected on Duet)
I tried many different settings on bios and nothing works, I believe bios is fully updated.

Obviously I'll pay you. (I just want us to know every possible work around, to better assist everyone)
Because I may sell my board if I can't get it going. whole point was to get 250gb SSD to run full speed or m.2 speeds.
If I can't get the board to work,I can sell it to one of you cheap if you want it. (Just no I/0 Shield)

Also have 1x Msi LGA 1155 board that were working but had bios failures (If you know how to fix those at all, does bios fail loop)
1x Intel board doesn't post, after changing ram speed. (no amount of CMOS resets recovers it)
You can keep them or fix it if you want to.

Sorry to just put this out there, I just don't know if this is something you like doing or not.
The Asrock Extreme X58 will come w/I7 cpu + cooler if i have a small 1 for it + M.2 Pci Express adapter with Samsung SM951
You have your own ddr3 ram stick and misc card?

The oldest card I had used to test was a GT610. I don't think it's the card because Windows installer works fine without duet on regular ssd/or hdd. (Someone asked this question before, I know card works correctly)

Thanks for being such an active forum.

J