[SOLVED] I wanna make a windows 11 installer from my preview build

[HOLDMYPC]

I want to make an USB installer from the Windows 11 i have installed, and not use the media creation tool , please help me, is this possible? help me pleaseee

 

[dwd999]

I've never heard of such a thing being successfully done. As part of its copy protection, Windows is specifically designed so that it will not run from a USB. That's how they make their money. Once its completely installed and running, the process can not be reversed.

 

[Colif]

My answer to your win 10 question about same thing still applies. No - https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/can-i-create-a-usb-flash-drive-of-my-current-os.3716221/

An installed version of Windows cannot make an installer without a source. Clearly, for some reason, it can't use the image file it uses to rebuild itself after a reset. I don't know why.

And even more so now with Win 11 being in alpha and only available via 2 methods, Insiders is a download and UUP is many updates all merged together. Win 11 isn't finished yet so why you would want to stay on a weekly build that is missing parts still

This says its ISO, No mention of Media Creation Tool - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/isos

 

[alceryes]

I haven't looked into it but you could possibly sysprep your Windows 11 as is. There are limitations to sysprep though. Moving a syspreped (generalized) Windows 11 image to different system hardware shouldn't be a problem then. You could then deploy it via whatever PXE/DISM deployment method you are using.
Alternately, you can 'sneakernet' the image to other systems but you'll need to boot off a Windows 11 install USB to run fixboot/fixmbr to get it booting.

 

[USAFRet]

I want to make an USB installer from the Windows 11 i have installed, and not use the media creation tool , please help me, is this possible? help me pleaseee

If you could give us some info of what you're actually trying to do, maybe a real solution will appear.

As it is, we're out here just guessing.