Portable Windows 11 USB Flash Drive with Rufus and Windows To Go
What is Windows To Go?
Windows To Go is a feature in Windows 10 Enterprise and Windows 10 Education that enables the creation of a Windows To Go workspace that can be booted from a USB-connected external drive on PCs. -https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/deployment/planning/windows-to-go-overview
Prerequisites
Installing Windows 11 on USB
- Plug in the USB flash drive, 32GB or larger
- Download the Windows 11 iso
- Download Rufus version 2.0 or later Download
- Run the Rufux application
- Select the target USB device (double check the selection, all data on the USB device will be destroyed)
- Click the Select button next to Disk or ISO image > Browse to and select the downloaded Windows 11 iso file
- Select Windows To Go from the Image option dropdown
- Select MBR from the Partition scheme dropdown
- Click the Start button to write the modified installation media to the target USB device
- Wait for Rufus to write the files to the USB device
- That's it! Boot to the USB device on any machine you wish to run the portable Windows 11 environment on