Yesterday, we downloaded an ISO file for a “bootable” USB of Win 10 (for recovery) of the HP Pavillion that doesn’t want to boot anymore. We managed to get it up and running (the PC) and I tried to get the USB loaded on my chromebook, but it failed to work. (Error on the download at the last of the 15 minute download.) So I used the machine to download and left on the flag to make it include machine specific requirements. I had planned to use on other machines, but I have decided that they need one of their own. It only needs an 8 G USB Flash Drive (64 bit OS), so I can do that. This is the link the to web site:
[What does ISO mean in this context: Image file.]
Everything went well with the prep, which took only about half an hour in total time to create, but we have not tried it on the machine yet. It can be used to refresh the Win 10 copy, which I suspect on this machine is Win 10 corruption problem because the machine has a boot menu that sometimes comes up and sometimes doesn’t. We also had some viruses on one of the external hard disk, which have been repaired, but I would not be surprised if the boot error is occuring as a part of the virus attempting to reload itself. Sometimes the machine sits and says it is “loading the boot menu” which it is obviously NOT doing. After powering off, the setup CMOS managed to get it loaded. I hope this is not a hardware issue, but we are on the lookout for a replacement desktop.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
The machine does not have a CMOS option to boot from USB, so we redid the ISO on a DVD and this works. It allows the bootup of the operating system from the DVD and you can work normally from there. Obviously, there may not be a full load, so if the operating system had actually failed, there may be some features not available. We are satisified that there may be some circumstances where this could prove useful.
P.S. I created a USB bootable for the other Win 10 desktop, but have not tried using it yet.