Want to create a bootable Windows 8 device to use on all of your PC's? Windows to Go is the way! Select your image, USB drive and boot! Hardware requirements: 32GB USB Flash or Hard disk device Windows 8 Enterprise Edition Recommended USB 3 View our Windows 8 forum: http://www.benstechtips.co.uk/forum/38-windows-8/ Website - http://www.benstechtips.co.uk Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/benstechtips Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/benstechtips Donate - http://www.benstechtips.co.uk/go/donate Transcript: Hi guys, welcome to this video. In this video I'm going to be showing you how to create a Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 bootable USB drive So, as you know Windows 8 is the latest operating system from Microsoft and as part of their new features, they've put in a Windows-to-go feature which is basically the ability to put Windows on a USB flash drive or USB hard disk and that means that you can install it to the USB, plug it into any computer, then boot from it, and use it how you want. So in this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a Windows 8 bootable flash drive or USB hard disk. There are a few requirements, for example you must have Windows 8 Enterprise for it to work -- it isn't available in the core edition or the professional edition of Windows 8 or 8.1. You must have a 32GB USB storage device and the device should be at least USB 3.0. It does work on USB 2.0, however there will be some performance issues that you could experience. I'd recommend a USB 3.0 device. So as you can see I'm running Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition. This is the edition you must have to use Windows-to-go. The way that we create the USB drive is to go to the start menu, type in 'Windows to go', and hit the Windows-to-go app. Now this will search automatically for a USB drive -- it will search for hard disks and USB drives. So as you can see I've chosen my USB hard disk to install this on. This is 320GB, but you do need at least 32GB of space on your USB drive. Bear in mind that your USB drive will be formatted during the operation so backup any data that you want to keep. So let's go ahead and click on my USB device. As you can see with it being a USB 2.0 device, it is coming up with a warning saying that I should use a USB 3.0 drive. But for now, we'll just go ahead with that. Next it will find a Windows 8.1 image. This is the image that you want to put onto the drive. So if you have the disk that came with Windows, you can use that. Add a search location and enter your DVD drive, or wherever your installation image is. Choose your image, click next. You also have the option to set a BitLocker password. BitLocker is an encryption method that can be used so that when your USB device is plugged into a computer, it won't boot without you having to enter this password. So for now, I'm going to tick that and enter my password. And hit next. So this is the confirm windows. It says 'Your Windows to go workspace will be created on my USB drive using Windows 8.1 Enterprise edition'. Obviously this may take a while, as it has to copy a lot of data to your drive. Also please bear in mind that your USB drive will be formatted and all your data will be deleted, so make a backup of the data you don't want to lose. Hit 'create'. It will sit and prepare your USB drive for a little while and then start copying files. Once your Windows-to-go workspace has been created on your USB drive, all you need to do is restart your computer, go into the BIOS, change your boot order so that you can boot straight off the USB drive or USB hard disk. Enter the BitLocker password to boot, if you chose that. Windows will restart a few times, just to install drivers and such, and away you go on your Windows-to-go workspace! Please like, rate comment and subscribe, and check out my website at www.benstechtips.co.uk. If you have any questions, please click on the link below to go to our forum.

• published: 08 Nov 2013
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