

Visit the Rufus website and scroll down to the Download section.After that, you can use the Windows 11 bootable drive to install the OS on a compatible system. Once done, Rufus will show a success message. Follow these steps to create a Windows 11 USB drive using Rufus.

Rufus is an open-source utility to format and create a bootable USB flash drive for the Windows operating system. Once you have the ISO file downloaded, follow one of the methods below to create a Windows 11 bootable USB drive.

However, it may take some time to finish downloading, depending on your Internet speed.

Here's how to download the Windows 11 ISO to your PC: As such, it's a good idea to get this sorted before moving on to the three ways to create a Windows 11 USB stick. Otherwise is there any solution such that I can just change the boot to the physical SSD and able to fix all the issues above? Many thanks.To successfully create a Windows 11 USB bootable drive, you will need a Windows 11 ISO file also known as an ISO image. But I couldn't find any info to indicate if it is safe or feasible to do so. So my first solution was trying to detach / remove this VHD in the hope that converted the boot to the physical SSD and just boot from there. However, there are some issues such as all downloads are automatically stored in the VHD that reduces the storage quickly (I could manually remove the downloads to the D: drive but still), a few days ago latest Win 11 experience pack was not able to be installed for some reason related to this VHD, and I could not enable Hibernate function because of the VHD that drains the battery quite fast in Sleep mode. I researched and guessed that the VHD helps to make OS boot faster. I then inserted the SSD back and installed Windows 11 when the laptop first booted from the SSD.Īfter installation, there is a VHD formed in the same SSD. When I installed Windows 11 (Home), I had to removed my SSD, plugged it into a USB adapter and used Win-to-USB tool to make a bootable disk. As I messed something up with BIOS password, I couldn't access BIOS to change the boot order. My laptop has a single SSD with partitions as shown in attached photo.
