i you got an second windows box or an windows-VM with usb access: in windows: open an terminal/powershell with admin rights 1. run diskpart run all the following comands step by step: 2. list disk 3. select disk N (N is your usb stick) 4. detail disk (to check if it's the right drive) 5. clean (all contents of the stick is lost !!!) 6. create partition primary 7. format fs=ntfs quick 8. assign 9. active 10. copy the whole contents of the mounted iso (windows installer dvd) to the usb stick hints: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/diskpart maybe you need to integrate some driver (USB3, NVMe) into the iso before copy /usb afterwards USB3 only for Win7; Win > 8 ist buildin. NVMe ??? MSI provides a tool => "MSI Smart Tool": https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/B250-PC-MATE.html#down-driver&Win10%2064 tool should (?!) run on non-MSI-boxes too _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx