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title: make persistent windows 11 usb sticker date: 2024-04-21 01:00:32 tags:

Make persistent windows 11 usb sticker

Background

Sometimes, you just don't want to run windows as a guest os in your linux host os. And you don't want to install windows inside your internal disk. You may want to install the windows os inside your usb sticker, and boot it in any other hardware to use the hardware. (mostly the gpu hardware)

Steps

Download rufus

Download rufus (4.4.2103) and run it.

Enable hdd support

In rufus, press alt + f to enable hdd list

Burn windows installer into your sticker

For UEFI bios, you need to select partition scheme as gpt and select image option as windows to go

If you just use dd command, then you are making a sticker for windows installer sticker purpose. You need to select windows to go so that refus will create the gpt partition and extract all windows files from windows iso, then you just made a sticker for windows to go (a persistent windows inside your sticker In other words, rufus will detect the iso file as windows installer iso and then emulates the windows install process in your host os