ChrisGiulyMarty One of the many great benefits of digital modernization is the ease of accessibility… both in terms of knowledge and experience. Through high speed connections to computers across the globe, or in layman terms, the internet… one can easily learn and view whatever the heart desires. (Coughs slyly) Anyways, another such tool, which is also the main nidus of this article, is the USB boot drive and how to create a windows 11 bootable usb drive.
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WHAT IS A USB DRIVE
Put simply, a USB boot drive is a storage device through which a computer can receive all the basic booting information in requires. Yes, it is actually just a normal USB that contains the data and files required for booting. No, there are no files stored on the hard disk or the CD drive involved when using a USB boot drive.
All operating systems today support this feature. The main purpose and benefit no.1 for creating a USB boot pen is to recover, repair or install an OS. It’s like an alternative booting method when the actual files on the hard disk get fried for some reason… like streaming stuff that website you know you shouldn’t stream. (Yes, I am talking about watching cats in pirate suits.)
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF CREATING A WINDOWS 11 BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
The basic purpose is the one I’ve already mentioned… an alternative booting method. Though there are some other pretty tight benefits as well like:
- If you wish to try out a new operating system for your PC, you can test it out and then later on, have your default OS reinstalled should the new one not suit your needs.
- It’s a pretty easy process to set up a boot USB.
- When you are live booting from a USB, none of the files stored on the RAM are persistent. This gives a pretty handy advantage of privacy and this feature is even greatly used by many privacy oriented operating systems.
- USB boot drive can serve as an emergency recovery system to repair your OS should your computer suffer a data loss.
Though, in all honesty, there are some not-worthy disadvantages to having a boot USB such as live booting itself is bound to be a slow process than when using the state of the art SSDs. Also, the lifespan of your USB is reduced since during the process, there is a great pressure on the USB which is at that moment running an entire OS.
HOW TO CREATE A WINDOWS 11 BOOTABLE USB DRIVE
Now, there are a fair number of steps, but most of them are pretty straightforward and easy.
- The very first thing to do if you want to create a windows 11 bootable usb boot drive, is to install Rufus onto your computer. No, not the neighbor’s kid but Rufus… a utility used to format as well as create a USB boot drive especially from pretty much all bootable ISOs like Windows, Linux, UEFI and others.
- Go to Rufus website.
- Download the last version. Run the tool.
- Under the Settings menu (the Settings should be the third one from the left on the bottom), click on the Check for updates.
- Select “Daily”.
- Close Rufus and relaunch the tool.
OPTIONAL: Select the USB flash drive you have plugged in the drop down menu under the “Device” section.
- Open the “Boot selection” section. Click the “Disk or ISO image”.
- Next to where “Select” , click the arrow facing down.
- Click on the download option.
- Now, Select windows 11.
- Click “Continue.”
- Open the “Release” . Click the last version of Windows version, it change continuously , so that the latest windows 11 update can be installed. Click continue.
- Select Windows 11 version that you like.
- Click Continue.
- Select your preferred Language.
- Click Continue.
- Select x64 artichecture.
- Click Download.
- Choose were to save the Windows 11 ISO file automatically.
- Go to the Image settings.
- Click on “Standard windows 11 installation” option.
OPTIONAL: You can type a name for the drive under the “Volume Label setup”. After the download, you can continue with the default settings.
OPTIONAL: This step is entirely optional and frankly, not recommended… but if you prefer, you can check the “CREATE A LOCAL ACCOUNT WITH USERNAME” option to install with a local account and not a Microsoft account,
- Click OK.
Once you’ve done all these steps, Rufus will create a bootable usb drive. This method is the most popular and secure one. Rufus is simple to us and can support many different types of systems.
With these steps done, you’ll be able to use the bootable flash drive. With that said, this concludes out topic for today. Feel free to surf around for our detailed solutions to various PC problems.
FINAL SUGGESTIONS
Well, now that you have learn how to install windows on your usb pendrive, you can read some other article like HOW TO CREATE A SHARED FOLDER IN WINDOWS 10.
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