Here are Microsoft's own guides on building a Windows To Go drive, native booting from VHDs on a USB drive, as well as editing Windows boot files with BCDBoot and operating DISM via Command Prompt.

Want to know how to install Windows 10 via USB or DVD? It's actually easier than you think. Let us show you how.

In short, installing software as large as Windows 10 from a USB drive is simply much faster than from a DVD (and of course the only viable option for PCs without an optical drive).

A 4GB flash drive, or 8GB for the 64-bit version. Rufus, a free utility for creating bootable USB drives. Here's how to install the OS from a flash drive: The Windows 10 experience starts here.

It's possible to boot a Windows 10 computer from a USB drive, as long as you have the right settings on your computer and USB. Here's how to do it.

Install Windows 10 on a device with UEFI support by following our steps to create a USB bootable flash drive with UEFI support using the Media Creation Tool and Rufus.

We show you how to install Windows 11/10 on a new or secondary SSD or HDD. Using this you can have two versions of Windows on the same computer - but different drives.

Try the Windows 10 beta safely: Here are the hardware requirements, and how-to's for preparing virtual machines and partitioned hard drives.