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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
The motherboard is supposed to arrive tomorrow, so I'll get started on the build and install Saturday morning. I've never installed Windows from a thumbdrive before so I'll need to read up on what's involved but I suspect it can't be too difficult.
I do have one question, which is probably a silly question but I haven't been able to confirm. Is it cool if I install more than one NVMe drive? I currently have 6 hard drives but I could really use another 1TB SSD for sample libraries. Is it cool if I drop another NVMe drive in next to the 500 GB I purchased for the system drive?
Thanks in advance!
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Just looked at the mobo specs. It has 3 NVMe slots. So you can install 2 more NVMe drives if you wanted to.
Installing Windows from USB is a piece of cake. Microsoft has a tool that automates the entire process, you just need a machine already running Windows and a USB flash drive with 8GB+ capacity to create an installer.
Go here and download the tool for "Create Windows 10 installation media." Run that. Plug in your USB drive. It will download the Win10 image to the drive and make it bootable. You will need your Windows key to input during the install process or afterward if you want, Windows doesn't really care.
On the new PC, you have to configure your BIOS to allow booting from USB. Make sure Secure Boot is not enabled. Boot the machine tapping the F12 key to select your boot source, and select the USB drive. Follow instructions for installing Windows. You'll have to format your new NVMe drive during the Windows install process. That's straightforward and they walk you through it, you just select the drive you're wanting Windows installed on, and do a quick format. FYI, it will normally create 3 partitions during setup, a recovery partition, a system partition, and a data partition. The recovery and system partitions are very small, the normal data partition where you want to install Win10 will be obvious by the size.