▷ How to create bootable usb windows 10 【step by step】

In this tutorial to create bootable USB Windows 10 you will learn the procedure. The emergence of USB storage devices was a revolution in terms of mobility and storage. Thanks to these devices among many other utilities, an outstanding one is the possibility of being able to create a means to install your favorite operating system.

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USB devices not only allow greater mobility, but their storage capacity has increased enormously while their size has been reduced proportionally. The use of compact discs is less and less frequent and even many configurations of computer equipment already do without disc readers.

All this leads us to a conclusion, also to install Windows 10 or any other operating system we are going to need a bootable USB capable of performing the functions that compact discs have been performing.

Application to use

Logically it is not as easy as putting a Windows 10 ISO image inside the device. To create this unit we are going to use the Microsoft tool, Windows Media Creation Tool, which we can download from the company's website for free.

In addition, this application will allow us to directly download a copy of Windows 10 that, through other options available in the application, we could save it as an ISO image. In this way we would not have the need to search for illegal copies of Windows on other websites.

Remember that you will need to purchase a license to register your operating system legally. For this we suggest visiting our article:

Create bootable USB Windows 10

Putting our hands in flour, we go to the download directory and run our application with the name "MediaCreationToolXXXX.exe" according to the complication number.

Without further ado, we accept the license terms, and after a short period of checks, the first wizard window will appear. We will choose the second option, "Create installation media for another PC".

Next, a window will appear in which we must select through options what language we want in our Windows 10, what edition and its architecture. The most common will be to choose the following options.

To know what architecture your PC is, just visit our tutorial:

In the next window we will have to choose the option "USB flash drive" to create our bootable USB. Using the other option, a Windows 10 ISO file would be downloaded to our computer, very useful when we want to burn a DVD, make the USB bootable with another program or create virtual machines.

Insert your USB device into a port for the program to detect it. If it doesn't come out, just click on “Update unit list”.

The USB device must have a storage capacity greater than 4 GB

Finishing the creation process

After clicking next, the application will start downloading Windows 10 and then store it on the USB. Our bootable Windows 10 USB will be ready for use.

The only thing that will be left will be to configure our equipment so that it is capable of booting from a USB device for it, visit our tutorial:

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Creating a bootable USB for Windows 10 is very easy. As you can see there is no need to look for external applications or dubious ways to download Windows 10 ISO files. Microsoft offers complete support so you can create your own Windows 10 installations.

We hope that this tutorial has been useful. If you have any problem we will be happy to help you.