How to Copy Windows 10 to a USB Flash Drive Easily and Quickly

Q: How can I transfer Windows 10 from my computer to a USB flash drive?

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Want to copy Windows 10 to USB from a computer or laptop? You're not alone. Nowadays Windows operating system is becoming more and more portable, which means that you can not only install Windows 10 from USB but also transfer Windows 10 to USB.

When the topic is Windows OS involved, most of us are frightened to learn further, thinking it's too sophisticated and beyond the scope of our command. The truth is, instead of choosing a manual way, you can easily copy Windows 10 to USB with the intelligent disk copy software - EaseUS Disk Copy for Windows 11/10/8/7/XP/Vista.

How to Copy Windows 10 to USB with EaseUS Disk Copy

You will enjoy the following benefits by copying Windows to USB flash drives:

• USB is very portable and easy to use without worrying about hard drive failure. 
• Clean install Windows 10 on a new PC or hardware.
• Update an older system to the latest one, like from Windows 7 to Windows 10 or Windows 11.
• Boot a computer into a Windows recovery environment to troubleshoot issues.

To transfer Windows to USB drives, the best and easiest way is to clone your Windows 10/11 to a USB drive. This can make your USB drive bootable without any trouble.

EaseUS Disk Copy is very intuitive, and it's developed with the concept of providing all Windows users with a trouble-free system migration from one hard drive to another. It can help you clone a hard drive to a USB flash drive without data loss. In addition, it lets you clone hard drives of different sizes and clone hard drives with bad sectors.

In order to copy Windows 10 from your desktop or laptop computer to a USB drive, all you need is a two-step preparation.

• #1. Install the full version of  EaseUS Disk Copy on your computer
• #2. Prepare an empty USB flash drive with enough storage space to hold the system files. For example, if the OS partition is 50GB, your USB drive has to be 50GB or higher.

Now start to copy Windows 10 to USB with a simple guide:

1. Download, install and run EaseUS Disk Copy on your PC.

Click Partition Mode and select the source partitions that you want to copy or clone. Click Next to continue.

2. Select the target partition where you want to clone/copy the source partition to and click Next to continue.

Check and edit the partition layout: Autofit the disk, Copy as the source or Edit disk layout.
Autofit the disk is recommended.

• Copy as the source option will copy/clone the same layout of partitions from your source disk to the destination disk.
• Edit disk layout allows you to manually resize or move partition layout on the destination disk.

3. Click OK if the program asks to erase data on the destination partition.

Click "Proceed" to start the partition cloning or partition copying process now.

Here is also a video on how to use EaseUS Disk Copy.

 

By doing this, Windows 10 is now successfully put onto the USB flash drive, and you can freely use Windows 10 on any computer.

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How to Transfer Windows 10 to a USB drive with Windows To Go

As a matter of fact, the approaches to putting a Windows 10 operating system onto a flash drive or other external storage devices are not unique. If you have a solid computer background, you can take the Windows inbuilt solution called Windows To Go Creator to transfer an OS to a USB stick.

But is Windows To Go still available? For a detailed explanation, please refer to Windows To Go Creator for Windows 10/8/7

No matter which way you choose to transfer or copy Windows 10 to a USB flash drive, you will achieve the goal of carrying the Windows 10 operating system on a portable USB stick and freely use your own personalized operating system anywhere on a business trip, at the office, or at home.

How to Copy Windows to USB via System Backup

When it comes to backing up Windows to a USB flash drive, the Windows built-in backup tool - Backup and Restore (Windows 7) may first come to your mind. It can help create a system image easily and save it to a USB drive. However, you might get an error reading the drive is not a valid backup location.

To copy a Windows OS to USB via system backup, you can try professional backup software. EaseUS Todo Backup Free could be the one you can try. It functions well on Windows 11/10/8/7 to help you back up your system, data, partition, and disk. It can help you back up your Windows OS to the selected USB without trouble. In addition, by performing differential or incremental backups, you can save storage space on the USB drive or external drive.

Here is an article on how to back up Windows 10 to a USB flash drive:

To Wrap Things Up

This article offers two ways to help you transfer Windows 10 to a USB flash drive. You can refer to the methods in the article. But it is worth noting that Windows To Go is only available on Windows 10 Enterprise and Home editions and is not available in the latest Windows 10/11 updates.

Under such circumstances, EaseUS Disk Copy is a better choice for you to transfer your Windows 11/10/8/7 to a USB flash drive. It can also help you perform other tasks, such as replacing a laptop hard drive without losing data, cloning different drives, etc. Just download and try it! It will not let you down!

FAQs on How to Transfer Windows 10 to a USB Flash Drive

1. Can I copy Windows operating system to a USB?

You can copy the Windows OS to USB via a system clone. To this end, you need to use a piece of professional third-party cloning software. EaseUS Disk Copy can be the one you should try. It can function well on Windows operating systems to help you clone the system, data, partition, and disk.

2. Can you copy Windows 10 from one computer to another?

You can clone Windows 10 to another computer. You can copy the Windows 10 installation to another computer using a USB bootable disk. You'll be able to have a perfect replica of your Windows 10 installation on the other computers as a result.

3. How do I copy my Windows operating system?

To copy/clone your Windows operating system, you will need to use third-party cloning tools like EaseUS Disk Copy. Such a tool can help you clone your OS easily and quickly.