WinToUSB: Easily Create a Bootable USB Drive for Windows

Why Create a WinToUSB?

If something goes wrong with your Windows 10 computer and it slows down or stops working altogether, you will probably first look online for a fix. There may be a good way to fix this issue. The last thing you should do if that doesn't work is to install the OS again from the DVD or CD. Maybe your PC's hard drive doesn't work or you can't find the installation DVD.

This is a great time to use WinToUSB, which lets you reinstall Windows 10 from a USB drive. You can take the USB stick with you anywhere, and it works with almost all laptops and desktops. In the end, there is a USB port on every PC. Also, putting in OS from a USB drive is faster than a DVD or CD. This is why more and more people like to carry around a bootable USB installer.

Easily Create a WinTo USB

There are a lot of Windows users who want to make a bootable Windows USB drive so they can use it to start their custom OS on any computer. Microsoft makes "Windows To Go" for Windows 10 Education/Enterprise/Pro and Windows 8/8.1 Enterprise users in response to this need. When you use those opearting systems, you can try to burn ISO to USB drive and make the USB bootable.

But for this feature to work, you also need a USB drive that is bigger than 32GB and approved by Microsoft. If you don't have one of these, you won't be able to make a bootable USB from ISO. To make a bootable USB that is more flexible, you might want to use a more powerful tool. We suggest that you use AOMEI Partition Assistant here.

This is better than Microsoft's "Windows To Go" because it lets you make a bootable USB drive for all versions of Windows 11, 10, 8, 7 (32 bit and 64 bit). Besides, it not need a required USB drive bigger than 32GB. It even allows you to make a bootable USB drive from an ISO or system disc and a bootable Windows USB drive with the current system.

In the last section, we have mentioned that AOMEI Partition Assistant provides two methods to make a bootable USB drive. Here we will take how to make a bootable USB from ISO as an example.

Preparation work:

① Prepare an empty USB drive. To speed up the process, a USB 3.0 drive and computer with a USB3.0 port are recommended.

② Download the Windows 10 ISO files from the Microsoft official site.

③ Download the AOMEI Partition Assistant first.

Step 1. Plug the prepared USB drive in your Windows 10 computer and verify it is detected successfully. Run AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional. Click “Tools” in the top toolbar, and choose “Windows To Go Creator”.

Step 2. Here we choose the first option "Create Windows ToGo for personal computer".

Step 3. Choose "Create Windows ToGo with system disc/ISO" and select the prepared ISO files, then hit on "Next".

Step 4. In the subsequent window, choose the USB you plan to use. Then click the "Proceed" option to start making a bootable USB from ISO.

If you have don’t have prepared Windows ISO files, you can choose the second method in "Step 3" to create Windows bootable USB with current system.

If your OS won't start up normally, you can use "Make Bootable Media" function to make a bootable USB drive on a computer that is already up and running.

Then you boot your computer with a boot failure from the bootable drive, To repair the startup problems, you can try to rebuild MBR on the system drive, or check bad sectors on the main hard drive.

Conclusion

Creating a bootable Windows 10 USB has many benefits including installing or upgrading Windows, testing desktop environments without changing computers, starting from various devices to Windows, and repairing system configurations. Therefore, choosing a reliable bootable USB generator is crucial.

AOMEI Partition Assistant is a powerful tool that is compatible with multiple versions of Windows without using a USB drive larger than 32GB. With AOMEI Partition assistant, users can easily create USB drives that can be run from ISO files or system disks, so that the management system is flexible and comfortable.