I'm trying to reinstall windows 10 on my little Inspiron 11 that I've recently wiped and installed pendrive linux mint. Now I have a problem. I try to run the stuff to install the ISO, but it just says "authentication required" then I type my password and it still fails it. How the hell do I get past this? This is annoying on a level not seen before. Being unable to install anything because of broken ROM files really is starting to annoy me. I can't even use google chrome. Do you know how much I hate Yahoo now? It's the worst search engine there is and here I am forced to use it.

Just please help me escape this stupidity. I can't even do it from a bootable flash anymore because this computer is retarded.

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authentication required for what? the Windows 10 install off of a USB Stick? then that is a Microsoft issue. if you have the sticker on your laptop of authentication for its windows install version then you an use that to install whatever version that sticker is for. otherwise you might have to go black opts on it to get it to work. I'd go to Microsoft's help sight first and ask around.

It really isn't clear what you have and are trying to do so I'm guessing, you currently have Linux Mint and are trying to create a bootable usb to install windows 10, is that correct? If so, how are you doing this?

Could you explain what "stuff" is? It really isn't that hard to create a bootable flash for windows, you simply extract the iso, copy it to the flash drive and put a proper entry in the boot menu of Grub, if you still have Grub.

Without more details on what you are doing, if you want a bootable windows flash drive your best bet is support.microsoft or some windows forums.

OldJoeStalin,

It is unclear what you are trying to achieve.

If you wish to dual-boot Linux Mint and W10, it will be much easier to backup your personal data and then install W10 first.

In BIOS/UEFI:
Secure Boot on and UEFI Boot enabled.

Download W10 ISO file:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...d/windows10ISO

Create bootable drive using Rufus (with GPT partition scheme for UEFI):
https://rufus.akeo.ie/

NB For W10 the drive must be formatted to GPT (it may be MBR at the moment).

To manually wipe a drive and convert it to GPT:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...artition-style

Once W10 is installed, then shrink the existing Windows partition using Disk Management and create a new partition for Linux Mint:
https://itsfoss.com/guide-install-li...-boot-windows/