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Can't boot off of usb

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my hardrive died yesterday, I bought a new hardrive and nvme today so i can use the nvme for boot and hardrive for storage. I used media creation tool to make a bootable usb, but i can't get it to work. For a while it wasn't doing anything at all, It would just stuck on my motherboard screen and do nothing. When I did finally see the windows setup I would see it for a second and get SYSTEM THREAD EXCEPTION NOT HANDLED, and it would just do that over and over. I have already tried reformatting my usb and making a new boot but nothing. Please help.
 
Try another USB port.
Can you try a another USB drive?
Did you download the media creation tool & choose to create media? Were you using another Windows PC to do this or a third party program like Rufus?
 
I've tried another port, yes the media creation tool, I used a surface pro laptop after updating. The only thing I haven't done is trying a new USB and making a tool from a different computer. I will be doing both of those today if my friend wakes up anytime soon.
 
I'm hoping so, also I'm curious when using the media creation tool is a new version of Windows installed ? Or does it simply create a file replica of what was on the other pc
 
From what I understand if you choose to create media for another PC then you will need to choose things like Home or Pro & language whereas if you choose just to create media it will pick whatever version the PC is running.
It will create the latest Windows 10 version - 21H1 currently.
 
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