Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 6 days ago

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ASUS K50IJ laptop – the problem is as follows: it won’t load the Windows 10 installer from a USB stick (I get the Windows logo, then just a blinking underscore).
I’ve tried several different tools to write the installer: Media Creation Tool, Rufus, Ventoy (the latter was able to load the installer in wimboot mode, but the installation didn’t start and gave the error: “Windows Setup could not create a new partition”).
I tried to create the partition manually, but in the end, the installer still wouldn’t launch.