Not really, windows is just a list of files, if you put a lot of other files on the same drive you can still take the list of files that make up windows and copy them.You can't.
This is like taking a scrambled egg, and wanting to make a new chicken from it.
As asked above, what are you actually trying to do?
You can't.I want to make an USB installer from the Windows 10 i have installed, and not use the media creation tool , please help me, is this possible?
Not really, windows is just a list of files, if you put a lot of other files on the same drive you can still take the list of files that make up windows and copy them.You can't.
This is like taking a scrambled egg, and wanting to make a new chicken from it.
As asked above, what are you actually trying to do?
The install ISO is a lot of compressed files.Not really, windows is just a list of files, if you put a lot of other files on the same drive you can still take the list of files that make up windows and copy them.
Microsoft has imagex, which is the imaging tool that is also used to do the "install" (it is just applying an image of a clean windows environment that hasn't gone through the initialization) from the default generic windows image that is on any windows install medium.
If you run sysprep you can do several things like rip out drivers or other thing you don't want and create a clean windows image to "install" in the same manner that windows does a normal "install" .
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/wi...p/sysprep--generalize--a-windows-installation
That's how xp and earlier worked...The install ISO is a lot of compressed files.
These get uncompressed during the installation. It is not a simple 'copy' from a USB to the HDD/SSD.
In addition, a lot of info from the hardware is gathered from the system, and things are configured correctly. Like the Registry.
Knowing what the OP is trying to do would probably lead to an actual solution.
see number 3 here for instructionsTo complete your unattended Windows 10 installation media, follow the Make Windows 10 Installation Media section covered earlier in the article. When you finish burning the Windows 10 installation to your USB flash drive or disc, you must copy the Autounattend.xml file into the root directory, alongside the installation files.
You can use RUFUS app. It works fine.I want to make an USB installer from the Windows 10 i have installed, and not use the media creation tool , please help me, is this possible?
Opening iso files as virtual drives has ben a part of windows for several versions.which is different. I assume its a trick used by the updater to run a USB image off a hdd to update Win 10.
he asked same question in win 11 forum so that is a good questionWhy not?
I assume that its because media creation tool downloads the ISO file again at slow speeds and I think he downloaded the ISO file already before.Why not?