Open Control Panel on your computer, and search “Windows To go” in the window. So please check that you plug in an empty USB drive or that you have backed up any files that you don’t want to lose before proceeding to the following steps. Warning: Burning an ISO image to a USB drive will delete all data on the drive. Download ISO files from Microsoft official website and connect a certified USB drive (at least 32 GB) to your computer. To burn ISO files to USB in Windows 10, if you are mainly running Windows 10 Education/Enterprise/Pro, you can use its built-in 'Windows To Go' feature, which allows you to create a Windows To Go workspace that can boot a computer from the certified USB drives. Copy ISO to USB via Windows native 'Windows To Go' Fortunately, there are still two methods available to help you copy ISO to the USB drive in Windows 10. 2 Free methods to burn ISO to USB in Windows 10ĭifferent from copying and pasting files, burning Windows 10 ISO to USB is more complicated since the USB drive needs to be bootable once you got the ISO images onto it. So if you burn ISO to USB Windows 10, then you can use it as a portable Windows, take the familiar work environment wherever you are. One of its popular usages is to archive operating systems like Windows or Linux. Instead, insists on downloading again, a 4 GB download.ISO is a special file format being used on CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc. Meanwhile, Windows' Media Creation Tool works fine, but AFAICT won't burn an ISO already on hand.

Did notice later it was flagging the Windows partition lba (linear mode) rather than boot, so maybe that was the problem. The extracted files can be deleted (they're dupes of the ISO).īy the way, I didn't have any luck with WoeUSB, but can't exclude the possibility I overlooked something. Open File Manager navigate to ISO file right-click and Extract Here copy contents to flash drive. Create a new partition might as well use fat32 format (I did). Again, not much point using a drive larger than 8 GB. With GParted, create a new partition table, msdos format (MBR).

Turns out the trick to burning the Windows ISO is simple: it needs a boot flag set. So can Etcher, of course, but if you try to burn a Windows ISO with Etcher, it suggests you try Rufus.

FYI, Rufus also can be used for burning Mint ISOs in Windows. Not much point using a flash drive larger than 8 GB. The portable will be fine, or can use the installed version. I realize the thread has gotten a little stale at this point, but it's Open Chat, so not a big deal, eh? Anyhoo, I've since learned two ways to burn a Win10 image to USB drive, so thought I'd post in case someone finds the thread by forum search.

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