Windows 10: Will booting windows 10 from a flash drive erase everything?

I want to put Windows 10 on a flash drive to use on my old linux pc, but I want to still have the old operating system and data.

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Windows 10 boot drive

Is Windows 10 also limited to a max of 3Tb for a boot drive?

 

clean possibly infected flash drives and CD-RWs

Your steps in post #1 should work for 99% of viruses that may be on a usb flash drive. However, there are a very few viruses that can infect the MBR of a drive. I would use Diskpart from a command prompt (Admin) to clean them. In the command prompt type DISKPART then, at the Diskpart prompt use the commands:

LIST DISKnote the disk number of the usb and use it in place of # in the command:SELECT DISK #
CLEAN
CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY

After this you will have cleaned the partition table from the usb and created a partition using the whole of the the available space. You can then format this partition in File Explorer.


For a CD-RW, if you right-click on it in File Explorer there is an Erase option.

 

Windows 10 boot drive

Why do u even want a HDD/SSD that's 3TB for a operation system?