Windows 10: How do I create a thumb drive to boot from?

I'm looking not to install Windows, but just to boot my system from a thumb drive. For some reason, updating the BIOS for my motherboard screwed with my RAID 0 drive. I can now either boot normally but have only my C: and D: drives, or I can turn on VMD and the RAID drive shows in the drive list, but it no longer sees the C: and D; drive, so BSODs because Windows isn't on my E: drive. I need to boot up with the E: drive active so I can pull all the files off it to an external drive I bought, then set the RAID drive up again.TLDR: I need to boot from a USB, not install Windows.

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I am attempting to do a clean install of Windows 11. (Aurora r13) installation media on a USB thumb drive.

I was able to successfully create the installation media on a USB thumb drive. However, when I performed the steps for the actual installation I got up to the Use a device screen but my thumb drive does not appear on the list. The two options that do appear are: Onboard NIC (IPV4) and Onboard NIC (IPV6). Suggestions? Thanks.

 

Can a thumb drive be disabled by malware?

There are quite a few possibilities to what happened to your thumb drive:

1. It might be a simple issue where the partition got corrupted: In this case you can go to Computer Management > Disk Management> and check out what partition your thumb drive currently has. If it currently is in RAW format or is just unallocated, I suggest you unallocate the entire drive and make a new partition. It's possible that you can recover upto 99% of your files with a tool like EaseUS DataRecovery Wizard Pro.
   
2. The malware corrupted your thumb drive's firmware: The malware that your thumb drive may have encountered may be similar to something like BadUSB. It may or may not have modified your drive's firmware to transmit malware, but in any case your thumb drive's pretty dead, and there's not much you can do about it.
   

 

Cannot access thumb drive.

Hi,

Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

What happens when you plug the thumb drive?

Do you receive any error code or error message?

Have you checked it with another thumb drive?

Try removing and reinserting it again.

Also make sure that the AutoPlay option is
enabled on your computer. Follow the steps provided below:

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  Press Windows + X key.
  
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  Select Control panel.
  
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  Double click on AutoPlay option.
  
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  Check on the box, Use AutoPlay for all media and devices.
  
  

Ensure that all chipset drivers from the device manager(Press Windows + X and select device manager)

are up to date and also run the hardware troubleshooter if the issue still persist.

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  Type troubleshooting in the search bar.
  
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  Click view all in the left panel.
  
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  Select ‘Hardware and devices' and follow the on-screen instructions.
  

Hope this helps. Get back to us if you still face the issue with thumb drive. We are here to assist you.