Select your USB drive using the Device dropdown. Visit the company's website to download and install Rufus, which should only take a few seconds. It's the same app that Microsoft itself uses in its guide for creating a Windows 10 bootable drive. To turn a standard USB drive into an installation drive, you'll need to use a program called Rufus. How to flash Windows 11 to your USB drive With the ISO finished, this is how Rufus should look before you flash Windows 11 to your USB drive.