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  1. 1) I never heard of Gandalf
    2) You can indeed start windows 10 from an ISO that you download from M$ AFTER you transfer it to a bootable USB, either using the tool provided by M$, or by using a product like WinsetupfromUSB. I’ve been doing it almost every month since the first build of W10. Here is the link for bootable isos: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
    3) If the Gandalf ISO is already startable from USB, that is probably the reason you can’t start it from WinSetupfromUSB, which assumes it is working from an ISO designed for CD-rom.
    4) So, once again, download the ISO from M$, and use WinSetupFromUSB to make a bootable USB, or use Gandalf, but don’t try to combine the two.

    • According to the Gandalf website, the ISO is 4.3 GB, and contains all sorts of additional programs besides W10. It says, “After downloading, burn the bootable ISO file to a USB large of 8gb or larger, using rufus or a similar program to create your bootable USB.” So, that is the same procedure that you should use for the M$ download, and it should work with WinSetupFromUSB as well, except the modifications to the standard ISO may prevent it.

    • Not sure what you mean about other tools, can you elaborate?
      Is there a reason you can’t use FAT32, given the fact that program splits large over 4 GB ISOs in less than 4 GB chunks thus getting around the FAT32 limitation? I am well aware of existence of uefi-ntfs, just not seeing yet any reason to spend time, which I don’t have anyway, on implementing it.

      • Hello, I cant get it to install windows from my iso split in multiple parts as just a single iso on ntfs is boots fine but not with uefi and have not have any success implementing the link and your program together,it would be nice if you program too advantage of the link so they can but ntfs and uefi compatible, but i do really like your, its incredibly usefull

        • Can you describe with details what “cant get it to install windows” means? Like how far exactly you get with the install, are there any error messages etc. etc.

  2. Hi,

    Can you please explain how to edit the OS list?
    I try to remove some and after deleting the folder , they are still appear in menu.
    Great tool but I miss this add/remove OS from USB.

    Thanks

  3. Hi, Anytime I add a 2nd ISO (win 10) it forces my win7 iso to crash with error 000000359 windows/system32/xxxx.efi file missing. if I just load my win 7 iso alone… it boots and runs just fine. Only when i add the win10 iso.

  4. Created a boot disk with Windows 10. I checked on the laptop Asus. Working.
    But the new Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 15.6 – gives an error

    The application or operating system couldn`t be loaded because a required file is missing or contains errors/
    File: \windows\system32\boot\winload.efi
    Error code: 0xc0000359

    You`ll need to use recovery tools. if you don`t have any installation media ( like a disc or USB
    device)? contact your PC administrator or PC/Device manufacturer.

    Can you tell me what the problem is?

  5. Hi,

    Tried to create a USB with both Macrium Rescue (ISO using WinPE) and Parted Magic (Linux). I used “Windows… based ISO” for Macrium and “Linux… GrubISO” for Parted Magic.

    When booting in BIOS it works well, but when booting in UEFI it does not display the menu and boots Macrium directly.

    Is there any way of get the menu in UEFI mode?

    Thanks

      • This is a great program! I made an omniboot by using winsetupfromusb first, and then switched to Yumi-Uefi to add linux bootable iso’s in uefi mode. From that moment the disk boots into grub2. I manually added a grub entry to reach for the windows setups.

        It would be a nice addition if linus iso’s could be booted into uefi with this program

        • All linux stuff is handled by grub4dos which doesn’t and won’t support UEFI because of its nature of using BIOS calls. The closest alternative which supports UEFI, grub2, can’t yet provide the needed functions to replace grub4dos, hence the lack of such support for the linux ISOs.

          Grub4dos has a way of booting just about any Linux ISO with no customisation at all. Same can’t be achieved with grub2, at least not yet.

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