
Either way, as long as you’ve got the USB drive plugged into a USB port as the system restarts, you will then be able to boot from that device into WinRE. If you click through Start 🡪 Settings 🡪 Update & Security 🡪 Recovery 🡪 Advanced Startup 🡪 Restart Now, your PC will restart immediately and offer the Recovery environment as an option upon start-up. If you can boot into Windows, you can force your PC to boot off the USB drive on restart. If I take that route, I must then strike the F12 function key to get to an alternate boot menu.
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On my newer Lenovo PCs, the BIOS tells me that striking the proverbial “any” key will interrupt initial boot-up. Booting Your Windows 10 Install USBĪs a Windows PC is booting, you may be able to interrupt the boot sequence before the Windows loader gets going by striking a function or special key on that machine. Now, you’ve got a brand-new, ready-to-use bootable USB flash drive with Windows 10 21H1 (or whatever version is current as you read this). The process concludes with a brief cleanup to get rid of temporary files and other detritus. You may also want to check out a more extensive tutorial on creating a bootable Windows USB drive that includes other available tools.When the MCT writes the bootable files to the drive, it tells you it’s ready. Copy your Windows ISO to this partition, and that's all you need to do. Once the installation process is complete, you will have a partition named "Ventoy" available on your USB drive. This process is very fast and should not take long.

Click "Install," and Ventoy will create the necessary partitions for you. Then, select "GPT" under partition style, and activate "Secure Boot Support" if it is available on your machine. To begin, install Ventoy from the repositories and ensure that your USB drive is plugged in before launching the software. Therefore, you'll need to reinstall the Grub bootloader as well. However, reinstalling Windows will also delete your Grub bootloader, and you will lose access to any Linux distributions you have installed alongside Windows. If you need to reinstall your Windows operating system, whether it's because you no longer want Linux or because Windows is not booting correctly, you can use Ventoy.
