How to Create Windows 10 To Go USB Drive?

Why Need to Create Windows 10 To Go USB?

Windows To Go is a built-in tool in some Windows such as Windows 10, 8 or 8.1 Enterprise Edition. It is able to deploy a corporate environment which will boot from a USB drive or other external drive. With this tool, you can make "bring your own device (BYOD)" possible and keep your work environment and home use of PC separate if you use the same PC for work and home use. On the other hand, you can get a portable work environment. It allows you to work in the same Windows environment when you are on business or at home.

However, if you are not a user of Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, what can you do to create Windows 10 To Go USB? Just buy another one which has this feature and then reinstall it. May be this is not the perfect way due to the money cost and the time consuming work. Fortunately, there is another better way for you to finish the task.

Create Windows To Go USB with AOMEI Partition Assistant

AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is a free software which devotes to hard disk partition management. It has a feature called Windows To Go Creator which also allows users to make your work environment on an external hard drive such as a USB drive and then you can boot from it. With AOMEI Partition Assistant, you don’t have to make sure your system is available to Windows To Go any more, because this feature supports Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7/Vista and Windows XP.

Step 1: Plug the USB drive into the computer. Make sure that it is detected by your machine.

Step 2: Download, install, and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant. The program will automatically display your USB drive. Then, click "Windows To Go Creator" on left side.

Step 3: In the pop-up window, click "Browse" button to select Windows 10 installation file (named install.wim or install.esd). If the program doesn’t detect it automatically, please click "Browse" to select manually. After that, click "OK" to continue.

Step 4: Click "Proceed". The program will inform you about something important. The data on this USB drive will be deleted and the partition on USB drive will be formatted as NTFS file system. If there are important data in USB drive, you should back upthem in advance. Then click "Yes", creating Windows 10 bootable USB drive will begin.

For the detail steps, please refer to how to create Windows 8 To Go USB.

After the crating Windows 10 To Go USB, you can plug Windows 10 bootable USB into any computer and boot up system from it. Besides this feature, there are other useful features for your partition management such as migrate OS to SSD, convert MBR to GPT, make bootable CD and more.