TIP: Change your user agent to appear to be something other than Windows, such as Linux, then Microsoft's website will give you the option to download a Windows 10 ISO directly. It's faster than using the media creator tool.
You don't even need an extension for that, you can just go to inspect element and click the button where you can simulate a phone screen. That changes the user agent and you get direct download links
From the Rufus FAQ: You should no longer have to disable Secure Boot if you use Rufus 3.17 or later, as the UEFI:NTFS bootloaders being used by these versions are Secure Boot signed.
@@bassam_salim i still never use his videos for a tutorial on something, ik he probably doesnt fool people anymore but hes caused damages to enough people for me not to trust him at all. And if your wondering which video i fell for, it was the "how to make your phone charge faster"
One of the best sets of videos I've seen relating to all kinds of computer problems. Makes a change to watch someone who actually seems to know what they are talking about.
Rufus has a feature built in to download the Windows ISO. It does this directly from the Microsoft servers, so it would save you a step and you still end up with the same file.
*Can you believe that I entered a search query for this exact topic with the name Thiojoe a couple of hours earlier? I even included Rufus in the search query* Feels like providence!
this saved my old laptop from becoming landfill, the hard drive connector inside stopped reading drives so now my laptop runs Windows 10 from a small usb drive and honestly it works great, its good for my work and youtube. I had no clue it was this easy. thanks
Just for everyone to know , it took me 12hours to make that bootable usb with rufus not 5 minute or an hour.. if you see it as if it froze just leave it and come back every hour to check on it's progress.. HANG IN THERE. 😄
Were you using a 3.0 drive or better? I threw hiren's on a few 2.0 drives and it did ok but that isn't quite windows. I think mine will be the 2-2.5 hour mark when it gets done.
Life saver bro fr . Some programs and games doesn’t work correctly or doesn’t work at all in my windows 11 bc my pc config is not supported (valorant for example needs TPM 2.0 in windows 11 or it doesn’t start ). I watched your video and put windows 10 on usb so i can run the programs that doesn’t work on my windows 11
@@khalidyt4173 same problem I had valorant not running on windows 11 , so an update miss up my pc and I'm trying to fix it and return to windows 10 is more better
I have rufus and I have windows iso, but I was unable to just do it until I saw this video where you clicked on the downward arrow menu and you choose ''Windows to Go". That does it. Thank you.
@@nikil213 in the video at 3:17 you can see the partition scheme is set to 'GPT' by default. just click on that and in the menu change it to 'MBR'. the target system right next to it should be set to 'BIOS or UEFI' instead of 'UEFI (non CSM)'
@@nikil213 You can find the Partition style of your computer by going to the "Disk Manager". You can check my "Windows 10 Bootable USB" tutorial if you need more guidance.
If you are downloading windows 10, you can do CTRL+Shift+i and hit the button that looks like a tablet and phone. Then refresh the page and then close the dev tools. This will enable direct download because it thinks you’re on a different on a device.
This is awesome. I had a friend a long time back who made a live CD for Win98 and I've always wondered how he did it. Looks like Microsoft may finally be embracing the live CD and everyone can do it now. Though, I'd still like to make a proper Win98 live CD. If anyone is wondering why, it's because I've got a lot of old computers that wouldn't be capable of running anything more recent.
@@writerconsidered It just needs to be able to boot itself. I have a Win98 install disc that can boot, and it goes into a dos prompt allowing you to type `setup`, but I'd want it to run Windows directly instead of just providing the setup tool. I also have a really old copy of Knoppix, and that always worked for me, but Linux is just super easy anyway. It'd be the cool factor more than anything.
This is actually pretty useful, for example: if you wanna install a new/different os to your main hard drive, you should set this up in case you need some quick access to Windows for a certain program/programs.
Hi Joe, I remember years ago when I was a bit inexperienced with computers. I remember trying to reinstall windows but the"copying files" would always stop at certain percentage and after a bit of time it would error me all the time. Hours and hours of research what the problem could be, doing rufus over again, downloading other iso, nothing helped. In the end, bought a new usb and that was it, apparently the old usb was faulty 🙂
Thanks a ton for this video! Needed to recover photos from my computer that wasn't booting, and this method helped me access my files on drive that wasn't booting windows.
(for people who want to permanently use an external SSD as their main boot drive) I recently found out about how you can tweak the registry to make the pc think it's not a windows to go installation if you want to receive major updates without making a fresh install. 1. Run regedit.exe from the USB drive 2. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control" 3. Change the value "PortableOperatingSystem" from 1 to 0
Using an external SSD will be significantly slower than internal SSDs. The reason is, USB connector will bottle neck the drive. So you need a usb 10 gbit connection. Usb 5 gbit should be enough
Wanting to do things such as setting up a PC to boot from a USB or DVD is SUCH A BLOODY HASSLE. I don't know whether it's Microsoft or the PC manufacturers, or both, but they all should be locked in a room and not allowed out until they SIMPLIFY this stuff so the average user can SUCCESSFULLY do it. They need to build a program that will ask a few questions regarding what the user wants to accomplish, and THEN DO IT. None of this fiddling around hitting the Esc or F10 quickly after power on and then wandering around in a MINEFIELD of little boxes, any one of which could easily disable the PC from ever booting again. That is RIDICULOUS! I've spend hours fooling around with an HP Probook 6475b and so far it will not boot from either a bootable DVD or bootable USB flash drive.
Thanks for this. This was way easier than the way i did this. I did this by using a spare computer and empty sata hdd. Running the first part of the installation where you select the drive you want to install and it starts copying the windows image to the drive. Once I got the your computer will restart in 10 seconds I turned off the computer, removed the drive and cloned it to a USB drive, and then booted off the usb and finished the setup. edit: I guess the way i did it, windows treated it like a normal installation and windows would feature update just fine
This video is the best i was tryna do this process for 2days and i was doing it wrong pc wudent troubleshoot or reset.. i cudnt get pass auto pc repair and diagnosis but after watching this it reallly worked
I'm going to try this on a customer's HP Stream where the internal eMMC drive has failed and cannot be replaced. Either a pen drive or and SD card. Great video, thanks.
OMG thanks for the tutorial!! Yesterday my laptop immediately went to BIOS after turning it on, I was completely clueless and thought it was damaged for good. Then tried to research all these stuffs. Learn a lot from both the video and the comments (especially the one tip about changing the user agent)! One thing though, I only reached the downloading step, then put both Rufus and ISO in my USB. Couldn't proceed with the steps shown in the tutorial (ran rufus, did as shown but couldn't hit the *Start* button). I kinda gave up and just inserted the USB in the laptop and turned it on and it just started up like normal??? Still don't know what went wrong with it, so if anyone has any idea, I'd highly appreciate some new techy knowledge 😭🙏 (Before this, my laptop screen had completely turned black after start-up. Watched another video about plugging out the battery, discharging it,etc. Screen turned on but stayed in BIOS. I disabled both *Security Boot* and *Fast Boot* , then enabled *Launch CSM* . Nothing happened until i used the USB (with both Rufus and ISO newly downloaded, untouched). My laptop works just fine now, no data loss whatsoever. It felt like a fever dream 😭🙏
I wish this video was released 1 day earlier. I just did this after trying for an hour in order to get the files off of my old laptop that wasn't encrypted.
I remember being so mad at you when I was like 10 because I couldn't actually run ps5 games on my Xbox 360 😂. Anyways, thanks for the help and nice video.
So glad that I found your video. My windows 11 crashed and went into a boot loop and and all the available options to repair it wouldn't work other than to reformat back to windows10 but I had lots of data that needed recovered. Also never again will I do an upgrade to windows11👎
You don't need the windows 10 install tool if you download the iso on a non-Windows computer - if you access the page with Mac or Linux you get a direct iso download link just like with windows 11
I've used to run windows 10 from external SSD (made with cracked version of wintogo) in school because the boot priority had main priority to boot from external it was fun
Tbh , the temperatures of the pendrive reaches like 55+(plastic) degrees 60+(metal) , I have used linux off of a pendrive my personal experience, its less snappy than ssd but better than hard drive. For me temperatures are a big no no
@@paulwarner5395 indeed. At least Nlite is a thing and let me make a fully updated/patched verson of my XP Corporate edition sp3 disk (A very lucky thrift store find)
I have a Surface Pro 6 with a dead SSD, booting from USB is the only way to use it again so thank you for making this as easy as possible. I Will buy a 2230 M.2 ssd for portability and speed instead of using a hard drive.
I’ve had luck cloning an existing windows install to a usb external drive then being able to select that external drive in the bios boot menu. Works great with an ssd plugged into atleast a usb 3.0 or higher port. This install is interesting. Might give it a try.
*I did the same thing did not work does not know why do you know why? (I even changed the putting order to booting from the USB first, it will just go to booting from the C drive as usual; after I disable C drive it will just give me blue screen and say internal drive was not found)*
@@marke9036 might need to check your BIOS. if your system is set to UEFI and the external drive was pulled from a system that was set up in Legacy mode it might not work. I believe this applies to vice versa. I've had similar issues and a combination of boot settings and switching from RAID to AHCI worked
I clones my internal drive to an external and booting it on the exact same computer and it gave the "inaccessible boot drive" when i tried with bot macrium and clonezilla so im not sure whats going on The leading thing people are saying is you cant boot regular windows from a usb drive . . . But here hes using regular windows? Idk its annoying af
@@cholsreammos i've had this issue if I clone to an NVME drive and try to boot from that drive is the OS doesn't have a RAID driver. how are you cloning? from within windows or using a 3rd party tool preboot?
if your on an ROG motherboard with ROG BIOS, you disable secure boot by going into bios, finding secure boot options, then at the 'Os Type' option, select 'Other OS' and you should be good. do your research tho!
Thanks for the video. Then I had just 2 clarification questions: 1. You talked of the limitations of choosing windows 10 pro version that it cannot do upgrades automatically,,, so which option in windows version should I choose so that i could be getting the automatic upgrades? 2. Can I install windows 10/11 x64bit on a x32 bit OS?
I did this on my usb stick and it worked well, it was just quite slow tho because the stick was 32GB I only recommend doing this on an SSD or a usb device with 64GB or more. It is still possible with less storage though.
Well Windows To Go has been retired for a couple years now. So it doesn't show up for Windows 10 or 11 now. Edit: Nevermind I didn't think you were talking about Rufus, because I know this was a feature for Windows 10 Enterprise in the control panel.
@@TBA_5854 Well I didn't know what you meant until I looked through the video. I know now that Windows To Go is a feature for Rufus. But I remember reading about Windows To Go when it was a feature built into Windows 10 Enterprise and Education. The built-in windows feature was retired a couple years ago.
You should've uploaded last year when i still had that old working laptop! Now i can't even use my current one (my current one does not have a hard drive so i used a usb instead), but hey, this might cone in handy if i have a working laptop near me
Does this also work with windows 7 iso? I repair computers for work, and sometimes I have to work on older machines that aren't compatible with windows 10/11. Looking to use this as a diagnostic tool as well as a killdisk usb
About to get a very powerful laptop from work, but for obvious reasons I'm not allowed install games on it. So I plan on using one of these to play Steam when I'm away from my gaming Desktop. Basically turn my work PC into my personal computer and mobile gaming station with a USB drive :)
Works well for creating a Windows 10 install for a mac, creat it on PC, plug into Mac using Thunderbolt or USB3. Its by and far the easiest way to run Windows on Mac.
@@Goosboi I used my PC to install windows 10 to a LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt SSD drive using USB3 ( Drive has facilities for USB3 and Thunderbolt 1/2 ). On my Late 2013 iMac ( with opencore boot selector ) I plug it in using its captive Thunderbolt cable, boot the machine, opencore boot selector presents the option of Monterey or Windows 10. Initially, only ethernet was working on the iMac, A combination of windows update and Brigardier solved my driver issues.
@@86config im using a portable windows usb like the video said im im trying to use it on the latest kind of intel imac and i have tried all the fixes that i can find for a security t2 chip
@@Goosboi Its should be as simple as creating the portable Windows 10 USB Drive, booting it ( choosing which OS to boot using the Option key on the macs keyboard, creating your account and then once in Windows 10 on the Mac, downloading the Bootcamp support software for that Mac using Brigadier, then installing it. Any support software for the T2 chip should be in the Bootcamp driver package for your mac.
TIP: Change your user agent to appear to be something other than Windows, such as Linux, then Microsoft's website will give you the option to download a Windows 10 ISO directly. It's faster than using the media creator tool.
Hm good to know
I used to get that link in Android and share to pc and download it on pc
You don't even need an extension for that, you can just go to inspect element and click the button where you can simulate a phone screen. That changes the user agent and you get direct download links
Hmm
@@mickael9 big brain time
From the Rufus FAQ: You should no longer have to disable Secure Boot if you use Rufus 3.17 or later, as the UEFI:NTFS bootloaders being used by these versions are Secure Boot signed.
I still can't see the USB on my boot menu, though... and i use the latest Rufus 3.21
@@NotJacobXTry Delyte and one more install program... or chek ... in rufs setup
It’s remarkable how a channel has transformed from posting SPAM videos for entertainment to super cybersecurity and useful videos! Great job, ThioJoe!
It took me a while to trust him
everytime i get a recommendation of his vid, this is exactly what goes through my mind
First impressions are last impressions 😔
@@bassam_salim lmaoooo
I remember watching his video and trying to download ram and also trying to increase my internet speed 🤣
@@bassam_salim i still never use his videos for a tutorial on something, ik he probably doesnt fool people anymore but hes caused damages to enough people for me not to trust him at all. And if your wondering which video i fell for, it was the "how to make your phone charge faster"
One of the best sets of videos I've seen relating to all kinds of computer problems. Makes a change to watch someone who actually seems to know what they are talking about.
Here's a piece of advice.
DO NOT DO THIS ON USB 2.0
It took a literal day to create it for me on USB 2.0
Yep i’d believe it
I tryed years ago.. USB 2.0 is much too slow.
yeah USB 2.0 is very slow but it still works. Depends on what you use it for I guess. I am using my WTG thumb drive for Chia XCH cold wallet.
patience is a virtue with USB 2.0
If only this video was released before I tried using Rufus, now my USB 2.0 is bricked because I stopped the error checking thing
This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a long time! Thanks Joe!
This is very useful for testing memory overclocks. It's easy to corrupt your OS install if the RAM isn't 100% stable.
Rufus has a feature built in to download the Windows ISO. It does this directly from the Microsoft servers, so it would save you a step and you still end up with the same file.
how do we bump this comment ^^^ to the top??
*Can you believe that I entered a search query for this exact topic with the name Thiojoe a couple of hours earlier? I even included Rufus in the search query*
Feels like providence!
this saved my old laptop from becoming landfill, the hard drive connector inside stopped reading drives so now my laptop runs Windows 10 from a small usb drive and honestly it works great, its good for my work and youtube. I had no clue it was this easy. thanks
Just for everyone to know , it took me 12hours to make that bootable usb with rufus not 5 minute or an hour.. if you see it as if it froze just leave it and come back every hour to check on it's progress.. HANG IN THERE. 😄
Were you using a 3.0 drive or better? I threw hiren's on a few 2.0 drives and it did ok but that isn't quite windows. I think mine will be the 2-2.5 hour mark when it gets done.
Life saver bro fr . Some programs and games doesn’t work correctly or doesn’t work at all in my windows 11 bc my pc config is not supported (valorant for example needs TPM 2.0 in windows 11 or it doesn’t start ). I watched your video and put windows 10 on usb so i can run the programs that doesn’t work on my windows 11
@@khalidyt4173 same problem I had valorant not running on windows 11 , so an update miss up my pc and I'm trying to fix it and return to windows 10 is more better
@@khalidyt4173 Bro use virtual box
I have rufus and I have windows iso, but I was unable to just do it until I saw this video where you clicked on the downward arrow menu and you choose ''Windows to Go". That does it. Thank you.
Hey so which one should I click? Windows to go or standard windows installation?
@@mahdimossavi8868 windows to go
@@mahdimossavi8868 Bro what do you think why is it called windows to go
You're my favorite tech teacher because your tutorials are easy to follow. Michael from Zambia
Perfect video, been working on this all day when my c drive got corrupted! Thank you for showing the entire setup!
If your using BIOS you need to change the partition scheme to 'MBR' and the target system to 'BIOS or UEFI'
thanks, i was just going after what this moron said in the video and wasted like 1.5 hours
How can i do that
@@nikil213 in the video at 3:17 you can see the partition scheme is set to 'GPT' by default. just click on that and in the menu change it to 'MBR'.
the target system right next to it should be set to 'BIOS or UEFI' instead of 'UEFI (non CSM)'
@@nikil213 You can find the Partition style of your computer by going to the "Disk Manager". You can check my "Windows 10 Bootable USB" tutorial if you need more guidance.
If you are downloading windows 10, you can do CTRL+Shift+i and hit the button that looks like a tablet and phone. Then refresh the page and then close the dev tools. This will enable direct download because it thinks you’re on a different on a device.
@ThioJoe Can we somehow pin these comments to the top?!
This is awesome. I had a friend a long time back who made a live CD for Win98 and I've always wondered how he did it. Looks like Microsoft may finally be embracing the live CD and everyone can do it now. Though, I'd still like to make a proper Win98 live CD. If anyone is wondering why, it's because I've got a lot of old computers that wouldn't be capable of running anything more recent.
Don't you need a floppy file to install before you can install 98? I know that's how it was back in the day.
@@writerconsidered It just needs to be able to boot itself. I have a Win98 install disc that can boot, and it goes into a dos prompt allowing you to type `setup`, but I'd want it to run Windows directly instead of just providing the setup tool. I also have a really old copy of Knoppix, and that always worked for me, but Linux is just super easy anyway. It'd be the cool factor more than anything.
ThioJoe is a literal livesaver. Thank you. I lost my boot device for Windows 11 yesterday and this helped me.
This is actually pretty useful, for example: if you wanna install a new/different os to your main hard drive, you should set this up in case you need some quick access to Windows for a certain program/programs.
HBCD PE , would be better for that purpose TBH
@@animegamer3336
Not for playing Windows games but, at that point you might as well dual boot
This is exactly what I want when I don't have any operating system on my machine. Thank you Joe.
Hi Joe, I remember years ago when I was a bit inexperienced with computers. I remember trying to reinstall windows but the"copying files" would always stop at certain percentage and after a bit of time it would error me all the time. Hours and hours of research what the problem could be, doing rufus over again, downloading other iso, nothing helped. In the end, bought a new usb and that was it, apparently the old usb was faulty 🙂
you should have used ez2boot.
it was probably a fake usb, like a 4 gig that claimed to be an 8 gig
Tumbs up for the video. I was a little bit scepticle since i come form the IT prank era of theo joe but this was actually helpful. Thank you
Thanks a ton for this video! Needed to recover photos from my computer that wasn't booting, and this method helped me access my files on drive that wasn't booting windows.
The most amazing thing about this video is the fact that you have an LG computer!!!
You're a freakin hero Bru! I've had difficulties installing Windows 10 to an 80s windows Xp machine (floppy disk time)Love from South Africa!
Awesome! I've been wanting to do this for a while.
The samsung usb thumb drive you showed looked really cool!
HOLY CRAP, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! YOU JUST SAVED SO MANY FILES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO ME, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!!!!
Is this USB Persistent ? will everything be saved when i run the windows again from the usb ? Also Is it necessary to Disable Secure Boot ?
I think secure boot might have been what i was missing thanks Joe.
(for people who want to permanently use an external SSD as their main boot drive) I recently found out about how you can tweak the registry to make the pc think it's not a windows to go installation if you want to receive major updates without making a fresh install.
1. Run regedit.exe from the USB drive
2. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control"
3. Change the value "PortableOperatingSystem" from 1 to 0
Using an external SSD will be significantly slower than internal SSDs. The reason is, USB connector will bottle neck the drive. So you need a usb 10 gbit connection. Usb 5 gbit should be enough
Wanting to do things such as setting up a PC to boot from a USB or DVD is SUCH A BLOODY HASSLE. I don't know whether it's Microsoft or the PC manufacturers, or both, but they all should be locked in a room and not allowed out until they SIMPLIFY this stuff so the average user can SUCCESSFULLY do it. They need to build a program that will ask a few questions regarding what the user wants to accomplish, and THEN DO IT. None of this fiddling around hitting the Esc or F10 quickly after power on and then wandering around in a MINEFIELD of little boxes, any one of which could easily disable the PC from ever booting again. That is RIDICULOUS!
I've spend hours fooling around with an HP Probook 6475b and so far it will not boot from either a bootable DVD or bootable USB flash drive.
Thanks for this. This was way easier than the way i did this. I did this by using a spare computer and empty sata hdd. Running the first part of the installation where you select the drive you want to install and it starts copying the windows image to the drive. Once I got the your computer will restart in 10 seconds I turned off the computer, removed the drive and cloned it to a USB drive, and then booted off the usb and finished the setup.
edit: I guess the way i did it, windows treated it like a normal installation and windows would feature update just fine
Hey man thanks a lot. I was really overwheld and confused but now it all makes sense. Thank you.
Please make a video tutorial on how set any USB flash drive read-only like a CD-ROM disk.
Hey, I Love your Videos! Keep up the Good Work!
Nice Keep It Up I Already Know This But For The Begginers It's Really Good
This could have possible useful purposes of which I haven't thought of yet. Thanks Joe.
Yo I'm early! Glad I have all notifications on. Also, nice. Thanks for the educational video!
This video is the best i was tryna do this process for 2days and i was doing it wrong pc wudent troubleshoot or reset.. i cudnt get pass auto pc repair and diagnosis but after watching this it reallly worked
I'm going to try this on a customer's HP Stream where the internal eMMC drive has failed and cannot be replaced. Either a pen drive or and SD card. Great video, thanks.
OMG thanks for the tutorial!! Yesterday my laptop immediately went to BIOS after turning it on, I was completely clueless and thought it was damaged for good. Then tried to research all these stuffs. Learn a lot from both the video and the comments (especially the one tip about changing the user agent)!
One thing though, I only reached the downloading step, then put both Rufus and ISO in my USB. Couldn't proceed with the steps shown in the tutorial (ran rufus, did as shown but couldn't hit the *Start* button).
I kinda gave up and just inserted the USB in the laptop and turned it on and it just started up like normal??? Still don't know what went wrong with it, so if anyone has any idea, I'd highly appreciate some new techy knowledge 😭🙏
(Before this, my laptop screen had completely turned black after start-up. Watched another video about plugging out the battery, discharging it,etc. Screen turned on but stayed in BIOS. I disabled both *Security Boot* and *Fast Boot* , then enabled *Launch CSM* . Nothing happened until i used the USB (with both Rufus and ISO newly downloaded, untouched). My laptop works just fine now, no data loss whatsoever. It felt like a fever dream 😭🙏
I wish this video was released 1 day earlier. I just did this after trying for an hour in order to get the files off of my old laptop that wasn't encrypted.
I remember being so mad at you when I was like 10 because I couldn't actually run ps5 games on my Xbox 360 😂. Anyways, thanks for the help and nice video.
So glad that I found your video. My windows 11 crashed and went into a boot loop and and all the available options to repair it wouldn't work other than to reformat back to windows10 but I had lots of data that needed recovered.
Also never again will I do an upgrade to windows11👎
You can actually download the iso directly just load the download page in a small window then it will give options for 32 bit and 64bit download
Win 10 or 11?
@@philipdan9461 Both but for win 11 only 64bit
Great video. Just yesterday I was wondering how to do this. Great timing. 😀
Great vid man. I had to do that for a CS class I had awhile back so I consider this to be easy to do
Cool stuff! Does it allow for regular windows updates?
Yes.
hey i like that you dont do fake vidoes anymore but 12 year old me really believed I could download more ram
I guess this is better than duel booting cause its annoying when I need to do stuff on windows.
true
Thanks! I tried to make a USB and it didn’t work so you can just imagine my happiness when it worked!
did you use windows to go= because mine always fail to install onto te usb
You are my hero for all the stuff i know i should be able to do but cant remember exactly how to do it :) Making a NVME bootable external drive now.
Thanks for information! I will be update my laptop 💻 windows 10 to windows 11 soon.
You don't need the windows 10 install tool if you download the iso on a non-Windows computer - if you access the page with Mac or Linux you get a direct iso download link just like with windows 11
Good look
I've used to run windows 10 from external SSD (made with cracked version of wintogo) in school because the boot priority had main priority to boot from external it was fun
Tbh , the temperatures of the pendrive reaches like 55+(plastic) degrees 60+(metal) , I have used linux off of a pendrive my personal experience, its less snappy than ssd but better than hard drive. For me temperatures are a big no no
man used to troll so hard back in the day that I always hesitate to watch his videos
I have wanted to do this for a long time, finnaly
Would rather install 9x,XP, or 7 TO A USB drive
Yes it's a pity that there wasn't a Windows to Go for older OSs.
@@paulwarner5395 indeed. At least Nlite is a thing and let me make a fully updated/patched verson of my XP Corporate edition sp3 disk (A very lucky thrift store find)
XP was my favorite.
@@JohnRay1969 XP is definitely my favorite NT kernel Windows (Sorry 7, I've always thought of 7 as XP 2.0)
Great video, thanks for sharing!
It's a pretty handy thing to have, not sure why Microsoft do not include it in standard versions of Windows.
Dude ! You are the Man ! I was looking for something like this you explain it very easy ! thank you !
Love your channel. Thanks for sharing.
I would like Rufus can be compatible with macOS and GNU/Linux
I have a Surface Pro 6 with a dead SSD, booting from USB is the only way to use it again so thank you for making this as easy as possible. I Will buy a 2230 M.2 ssd for portability and speed instead of using a hard drive.
I’ve had luck cloning an existing windows install to a usb external drive then being able to select that external drive in the bios boot menu. Works great with an ssd plugged into atleast a usb 3.0 or higher port. This install is interesting. Might give it a try.
*I did the same thing did not work does not know why do you know why? (I even changed the putting order to booting from the USB first, it will just go to booting from the C drive as usual; after I disable C drive it will just give me blue screen and say internal drive was not found)*
@@marke9036 might need to check your BIOS. if your system is set to UEFI and the external drive was pulled from a system that was set up in Legacy mode it might not work. I believe this applies to vice versa. I've had similar issues and a combination of boot settings and switching from RAID to AHCI worked
I clones my internal drive to an external and booting it on the exact same computer and it gave the "inaccessible boot drive" when i tried with bot macrium and clonezilla so im not sure whats going on
The leading thing people are saying is you cant boot regular windows from a usb drive . . . But here hes using regular windows? Idk its annoying af
@@cholsreammos i've had this issue if I clone to an NVME drive and try to boot from that drive is the OS doesn't have a RAID driver. how are you cloning? from within windows or using a 3rd party tool preboot?
@@RameshSeelochan im also cloning to an nvme
I tried using macrium reflect and clonezilla
if your on an ROG motherboard with ROG BIOS, you disable secure boot by going into bios, finding secure boot options, then at the 'Os Type' option, select 'Other OS' and you should be good. do your research tho!
1:48 you can download iso by using developer options and doing the tablet view thing
Thank you. Worked like a charm.
Thanks for the video.
Then I had just 2 clarification questions:
1. You talked of the limitations of choosing windows 10 pro version that it cannot do upgrades automatically,,, so which option in windows version should I choose so that i could be getting the automatic upgrades?
2. Can I install windows 10/11 x64bit on a x32 bit OS?
Excellent! Thank you for the video and the content!
dude i remember you from when i was a kid
Thanks for the tips bro
I did this on my usb stick and it worked well, it was just quite slow tho because the stick was 32GB
I only recommend doing this on an SSD or a usb device with 64GB or more. It is still possible with less storage though.
bigger size doesnt mean better speed. you can have a cheapo 256GB stick thats still slow as f....
get something like sandisk extreme (pro)
@@realcyphox5919 Even better, get any cheap but trustworthy m.2 nvme ssd, put it in an enclosure and it will run circles around any thumb drive.
how much disk space did you have left? I'm assuming 7 GB
@@frylock428 Ye something like that but the main reason it was slow was because the usb drive was usb 2.0.
Excellent content as always.
i actually already knew how to do this
To anyone watching and it didn't work , THIS OPTION (WINDOWS TO GO) ONLY APPEARS IN WIN 10 AND LATER , IT WONT APPEAR IN WIN 7 AND 8
Well Windows To Go has been retired for a couple years now. So it doesn't show up for Windows 10 or 11 now.
Edit: Nevermind I didn't think you were talking about Rufus, because I know this was a feature for Windows 10 Enterprise in the control panel.
@@pyp2205 nah win 10 supports win to go but that option in Rufus is available from win 10 and later
Edit : i forgot to mention but i tried it
@@TBA_5854 Well I didn't know what you meant until I looked through the video. I know now that Windows To Go is a feature for Rufus. But I remember reading about Windows To Go when it was a feature built into Windows 10 Enterprise and Education. The built-in windows feature was retired a couple years ago.
You should've uploaded last year when i still had that old working laptop! Now i can't even use my current one (my current one does not have a hard drive so i used a usb instead), but hey, this might cone in handy if i have a working laptop near me
You got me! thsanks for your haelp, I will subscribe and like and I will set up my T460s
It’s okay to feel that why. I felt like that sowhat at the beginning. Just use the love you have for making soft to overpower that feeling
I've known the method for a long time I love this method it's been a Windows
Very good presentation man! Thank you! Brazilian Team
U should do secure boot / uefi vs BIOS boot and such explaining basic stuff like that and what they change and do for basic users.
it is saying my usb drive needs to have the "fixed" attribute set
Great vid, will this work on just a monitor like the Nexdock?
i literally creamed myself once i found out you could do this!!!!!!!
it took my laptop 8 hours and 46 minutes
did this with my nvme and encloser works treat
Excelent video thanks. Just didn't get the last part of disabling secure boot... Is that made in the PC where you install the windows?
How to get back to ssd s... windows 10
Sounds great. Is this a good way to get more hard drive Gigs
Does this also work with windows 7 iso? I repair computers for work, and sometimes I have to work on older machines that aren't compatible with windows 10/11. Looking to use this as a diagnostic tool as well as a killdisk usb
Wow its like you read my mind 21 hours later lol
Thanks Sir TheoJoe,,, i found how to update windows 10 on your link.🙂
quite good progress
About to get a very powerful laptop from work, but for obvious reasons I'm not allowed install games on it.
So I plan on using one of these to play Steam when I'm away from my gaming Desktop. Basically turn my work PC into my personal computer and mobile gaming station with a USB drive :)
I'd say Ventoy is superior to Rufus as Ventoy actually allows you to store multiple ISO's without ever having to have only one thing.
Thank man! very helpful video.
Works well for creating a Windows 10 install for a mac, creat it on PC, plug into Mac using Thunderbolt or USB3. Its by and far the easiest way to run Windows on Mac.
btw I cant get this to work it keeps on coming up with like reinstall the macos version
@@Goosboi Thats strange, what drive are you installing to ?
@@Goosboi I used my PC to install windows 10 to a LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt SSD drive using USB3 ( Drive has facilities for USB3 and Thunderbolt 1/2 ). On my Late 2013 iMac ( with opencore boot selector ) I plug it in using its captive Thunderbolt cable, boot the machine, opencore boot selector presents the option of Monterey or Windows 10.
Initially, only ethernet was working on the iMac, A combination of windows update and Brigardier solved my driver issues.
@@86config im using a portable windows usb like the video said im im trying to use it on the latest kind of intel imac and i have tried all the fixes that i can find for a security t2 chip
@@Goosboi Its should be as simple as creating the portable Windows 10 USB Drive, booting it ( choosing which OS to boot using the Option key on the macs keyboard, creating your account and then once in Windows 10 on the Mac, downloading the Bootcamp support software for that Mac using Brigadier, then installing it. Any support software for the T2 chip should be in the Bootcamp driver package for your mac.