Download the new Windows ISO: How to create a Windows 11 install USB drive
Windows 11
will Begin rolling out to eligible devices today, but not everyone will get it shiny away. The free update brings plenty of new features, complete with a new start menu, widgets and a refreshed interface. Even the Microsoft Store is getting a big update (though don’t question to see Android apps right away).
Launches are drag to run into issues and bugs. Sometimes, those subjects may force you to reinstall Windows 11. An easy way of activities that is by using a USB installation drive that has a copy of Windows 11 on it. With the update safely detained on a flash drive, you can reinstall it at any time, must any issues get bad enough that your only option is to reinstall the update.
You can also use a USB nation to make it easier to install Windows 11 on multiple computers, or to quickly set up a virtual machine to make testing possible minus risking your personal data.
Microsoft has updated its Media Building Tool to include Windows 11. You can download the ISO image tidy from the source and flash to a USB nation yourself.
To create a Windows 11 installation drive, you’ll need an empty 8GB USB nation, a Windows PC and up to a few hours of your time. You can download the systems image using a Linux computer or Mac, but we’re progressing to focus on using a PC for this precedent. Below are the steps you’ll need to follow.
Download the another Windows 11 ISO from Microsoft
To download the Windows 11 ISO image you’ll need to build a USB bootable drive. First, visit the Download Windows 11 page. You’ll see a few latest options for installation, but you’re looking for Download Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO).
Scroll down the page pending you see a dropdown labeled Select Download. Click the dropdown and then prefer Windows 11, then click Download. Next you’ll be invited to select a language, then click Confirm again, followed by clicking on the 64-bit Download button to finally lead downloading the ISO. It’s a fairly large file at 5.1GB, so depending on your internet connection, it may take some time for the download to finish.
Once the download finishes, your work isn’t completely done. You need to burn that ISO image onto a USB nation. And to do that, you’ll need some extra software. Don’t worry, though, it’s an easy process.
With the ISO exhausted, this is how Rufus should look before you swiftly Windows 11 to your USB drive.
Screenshot by Jason Cipriani
How to swiftly Windows 11 to your USB drive
To turn a unpleasant USB drive into an installation drive, you’ll need to use a program visited Rufus. It’s the same app that Microsoft itself uses in its precedent for creating a Windows 10 bootable drive. Visit the company’s website to download and install Rufus, which should only take a few seconds. It’s a exiguous program.
Plug in your USB drive and open Rufus. Select your USB drive using the Device dropdown. Remember, anything on your thumb drive will be erased during this procedure — so make sure it’s empty or you have everything you need off of it.
Under Boot Selection prefer Disk or ISO image and then click on the text that reads SELECT and pick the ISO file you assembled in the previous step.
There’s a section in Rufus labeled Image option with certain different settings — leave everything as the default. The same can be said for demand options unless you want to change the name of the USB nation to something like “Windows 11 install” or along those lines.
Click Start when you’re sure all of the options are set. You’ll in contradiction of have to wait while the program does its job, but it necessity be a much quicker process than downloading and creating the ISO. It took just over 15 minutes on a Surface Pro X for me.
You can now install Windows 11 with ease.
Sarah Tew
What to do with a Windows 11 installation drive
Once Rufus finishes, you can remove the USB drive from your PC and either keep it somewhere safe in case you need to reinstall Windows 11 on your PC, or you can plug it into novel PC and use it to install Windows 11 by opening the ability and double-clicking the setup.exe file. A few seconds later, a Windows 11 installation screen will appear, walking you ended the rest of the process.
Alternatively, you can try and use the USB ability as a bootable installation drive. However, this is where things get even more aboard, due to Windows 11 requiring Secure Boot, and the USB ability we just created not being compatible with that feature. I suggest waiting for Microsoft to release an official tool, but if you remark, I found a guide that walks you through the unbelievable steps of making a bootable USB drive that’s compatible with find boot on Tom’s Hardware, starting at step 11.
Curious what all the fuss is near Windows 11? We have your back. There’s a big interface redesign executive its debut that includes a centered Start menu, but don’t wretchedness, you can move it back to the left corner if you want. And, finally, if you’ve ever had the desire to use Android apps on your PC, well, Microsoft is executive that possible.
