Making a Bootable Windows 11 Install Disk

โดย admin ใน /span> 1$s โพสต์ แล้ว 31/07/2021

Unless you’re just installing Windows 11 onto a virtual machine, in which case you can skip to step 19, you will need to create a bootable Windows 11 install disk from the data in your Windows 11 ISO file. For that, you’ll need an empty USB Flash drive that’s at least 8GB.

One thing that makes this process tricky is that, if you use a popular Flash drive “burning” program such as Rufus, it will create an NTFS-formatted boot drive, because the main installation file is more than 4GB and therefore cannot live on a FAT32 partition. The problem with an NTFS drive is that you’d have to disable Secure Boot (in your BIOS) in order to boot from it and Windows 11 requires Secure Boot so the installer may tell you that you’re not meeting the requirements.

To solve this problem and create a USB Flash drive that can both hold your files and boot on a Secure Boot-enabled PC, follow these steps.

11. Connect your USB Flash drive. Please note that you will be erasing all the data on it.

12. Open the Disk Management app. You can find it by searching for “partitions” and clicking the top result.

open disk management — (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)

13. Delete all partitions on your USB drive by right clicking on each and selecting “Delete Volume.

Delete all partitions on the USB drive — (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)

14. Create a new, 1GB partition and format it as FAT32. You initiate this process by right clicking on the unallocated space and selecting New Simple Volume. You can name it anything you want. This will be the partition that contains the files you need for booting.

Create a 1GB FAT32 partition — (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)

15. Create a second partition and format it as NTFS. It should take all the remaining disk space.

Create an NTFS Partition — (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)

16. Mount the ISO file by right clicking it and selecting Mount. This will allow you to browse the Windows 11 ISO as if it were a physical disk and copy files from it.

17. Copy all the files and folders, except the “sources” folder, from the Windows 11 ISO to the FAT32 partition on the USB drive.

Copy all the files and folders but the sources folder — (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)

18. Create an empty folder called “sources” on the USB drive’s FAT32 partition and copy only the boot.wim file into it from the original “sources” folder on the Windows 11 ISO.