Regardless of your reasons for creating a bootable Windows 10 USB drive manually, here are the steps on how to do it.

Stuck using a PC with an older operating system? Not if you know how to run Windows 10 or Windows 11 from a flash drive.

That's it. Once the Windows 7 files have completed copying, insert your USB flash drive into a computer and boot it up to start the Windows 7 installation.

Starting with Windows 7, Microsoft made it possible to install Windows without using an optical disc drive by loading the installer onto a flash drive.

Here are Microsoft's own guides on building a Windows To Go drive, native booting from VHDs on a USB drive, as well as editing Windows boot files with BCDBoot and operating DISM via Command Prompt.

1] Create a bootable recovery drive On a PC that’s already running Windows 10, plug in a USB flash drive and create a bootable drive using the Windows Recovery Media Creator.

Creating a dual-boot system will let you safely test Windows 10 Technical Preview using the full power of your PC's hardware alongside Windows 8.1. In Windows 10, Microsoft is doing something ...