Windows 10: I Can’t Install Windows 10 On A USB Drive. Help me please.

I’m using an HP Stream 14 with 32 gb eMMC storage. All that space is taken up by windows 10 that came preinstalled when I got the laptop. Meaning that there’s barely room for me to install anything.


I did manage to clear up about 7 gigs, which leaves me with ~8.50 gigabytes of storage on my laptop’s local disk. My USB drive is blank with it’s original 32 gigabytes of storage. This should be enough to successfuly complete the Windows 10 installation onto my USB drive.


I go to microsoft and download the Media Creation Tool and save it to the USB drive. Then I run the .exe from there. I selected the options to where it will install Windows 10 onto my USB drive. I also picked the 64 bit installation of Windows 10. And I let it do it’s thing.


While the tool is doing it’s work, I notice that it’s using up my local disk’s storage instead. Is that supposed to happen? I thought it was supposed to install windows 10 directly to my USB drive? As a result, the installation doesn’t finish, because I apparently barely have any space on my local disk on my laptop to finish the installation.


I did find out however, that I am able to install the 32 bit version, which takes up less space on my local disk. Then once the tool finishes what its doing, it then automatically transfers whatever it installed onto my USB drive from my local disk. Then i’m left with the original amount of storage I began with on the local disk, and some of the storage has been used on my USB drive, which i’m guessing is for the Windows 10 installation.


Now clearly, I do not want the 32 bit version of Windows 10. I’m building a PC, and i’m trying to use this USB drive to install Windows 10 on there. Is it possible for me to install the 32-bit version of Windows 10 on my new PC, and then update that Windows 10 32 Bit version to a Windows 10 64 Bit version without any trouble?


The specs for the PC are: AMD Ryzen 3 3200G with a MSI a320m-a Pro Max Motherboard.


So to sum it all up based on what has been said above I apologize for it being so long my questions are:


Is it supposed to use my local disk storage?

I thought it was supposed to install directly to my USB drive?

Can I install 32bit windows 10 onto my new PC, and then update it to 64bit windows 10 once I do?

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Is it time for Windows 10 already?

Here's a good step by step guide on doing a fresh install.

How to clean install Windows 10 from a USB drive - Software - Feature - HEXUS.net

 

Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Windows 10 USB boot

Hi there, am not a windows 10 expert. I have a pc in the bedroom on windows 10, I messed up the bootloader trying to fix the xp on that system.

System wont boot, trying to repair via win 10 usb installer.

Downloaded the media creation tool to install windows 10 installer on usb stick. Not compatible with a host of usb sticks I have. Tried the usb sticks that others use, but I think they use rufus; as the media creation tool by win 10 does not detect the usb stick.

So quick question, the win10 machine i am trying to repair the bootloader is a win7 upgraded to win10.
If i were to use the usb win10 installer to "repair installation" does the version of the iso downloaded via the media creation tool matter?

There is three options:
Windows 10
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 N

Also is there a step by step instead of using rufus as I want to try an alternative method of creating a usb win 10 installer. Preferably with more compatibility.

System is a asus sabertooth 990 (r2?) with AMD phenom X 6.

Also is there any other software I can load onto the usb that can repair the bootloader easily?
That would be the ideal alternative. Thanks