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Looking for Create a Bootable USB drive / Windows Installation media for Windows Upgrade Or Clean installation Purpose? Also Some Times We Require a Bootable USB / Media To Access Advanced Startup option to fix windows Startup problems. There are various ways to Create a Bootable USB drive, This post we cover How To create a Bootable USB / Installation media using the official Media Creation Tool.

How To Create a Bootable USB drive

To create a USB Bootable drive For Windows 10 First We Need A USB Flash Drive ( At least 4 GB, And make sure the USB drive is Empty or Backup your USB  Drive Data ). Also, Require Windows 10 ISO files. Otherwise, if you use the Media Creation Tool then Make Sure you have a Stable Internet Connection.

Microsoft Officially Released Windows media Creation Tool Which helps to download and Create a Bootable USB / Media For windows 10 Installation or upgradation purpose.

First Insert The USB Drive into the computer And Download the Windows Media Creation Tool. Save the Media Creation Tool.exe file to your desktop and Double click on it to run the Setup.

Windows 10 20H2 media creation tool

Accept the Terms and Conditions then on the Next screen Select the Create installation media (USB flash drive, DVD, or ISO file) for another PC option and click next.

Media creation tool Create installation media

Now on the next screen, the language, architecture, and edition will be selected automatically based on your computer configuration. but you can clear the Use the recommended options for this PC option to select the appropriate settings if you’re trying to use the media on another device. We recommend to Select Architecture for both, So that we can use the USB for 32 bit and 64-bit windows installation purposes.

Media creation tool architecture and edition

Click Next and select the USB Flash Drive option. Again click Next and select the removable drive from the list.

Media creation tool USB flash drive

That’s All When you click next the Media creation Tool Will Start windows Downloading ( it will take time depending on your internet connection speed ). After That, you see Creation Windows 10 media. Wait Until 100% Complete the process, Then after finish the process and Now you can use the USB drive for Windows installation or Upgradation purpose.

Media creation tool downloading win 10 ISO

Also, you can use the third-party utility Rufus tool, which allows you to easily create a Bootable USB drive with Flew steps. First Download Rufus from the official site. Then Double-click the Rufus-x.xx.exe file to Run the tool. Here Under “Devices,” select the USB drive with at least 4GB of space. Then Under the “Partition scheme and target system type,” select the GPT partition scheme for the UEFI option from the drop-down menu.

Next Under “Filesystem” and “Cluster size,” leave the default settings. And On “New volume label,” type a descriptive label for the drive. Next Under “Format Options,” check the Create a bootable disk using the “ISO image”option. Now Click on the drive icon and select the Windows 10 ISO image.

When you are ready Click the Start button. And Click OK to confirm that the USB drive will the erased. Once you’ve completed the steps, Rufus will proceed to create the USB bootable media.

rufus bootable software

Hope after reading this post you will easily create Windows 10 bootable USB flash drive, installation media for windows installation purpose. Have any query suggestion feel free to comment below. Also, Read

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