Usb pen drive for win10

clone · 15 Nov 2015 at 19:51

What size of usb pen drive will I need to put win 10 on and what make should I go for.
Thanks.

ED209 · 16 Nov 2015 at 08:03

any USB make will be fine, ive got a 4GB, 8GB and 32GB ones, the cheaper ones will be slow in speeds though.

I did a install of W10 from USB stick yesterday and the installer is just over 3GB. to be on the safe side I would get 8GB so you have space for any future increase of the W10 ISO.

clone · 16 Nov 2015 at 09:33

Thanks mate ill get one ordered today

IainR · 18 Nov 2015 at 18:56

Instead of starting a new thread i'll just ask my question here if you don't mind.

I have just today made a usb pen drive for win 10 for my upcoming system upgrade. I used my 32gb corsair usb 3.0 stick that was on offer last week. My question is this, is it ok to put other files that i want to backup (vlc, afterburner, gfx and mobo drivers etc) onto this stick also, or does it need to stay as a purely win10 install stick now?
It will be my first time installing windows without a disk so just wanted to make sure.

PapaLazaru · 18 Nov 2015 at 21:07

IainR said:
Instead of starting a new thread i'll just ask my question here if you don't mind.

I have just today made a usb pen drive for win 10 for my upcoming system upgrade. I used my 32gb corsair usb 3.0 stick that was on offer last week. My question is this, is it ok to put other files that i want to backup (vlc, afterburner, gfx and mobo drivers etc) onto this stick also, or does it need to stay as a purely win10 install stick now?
It will be my first time installing windows without a disk so just wanted to make sure.

I would leave them off tbh. As you know, when you create the USB Win10 drive, it formats it anyway, probably to avoid issues.

kayomani · 18 Nov 2015 at 21:11

Putting extra files on the disk will not affect the install at all. I'd suggest putting them all in a folder so you don't touch any of the installer files accidentally.

IainR · 19 Nov 2015 at 09:21

Thanks for the replies.

I'll stick the files on my 32gb stick in a separate folder, I had planned to do that anyway. It's my only 3.0 stick and I dont want to waste all that space for just a windows install.
I might make a secondary win 10 stick on one of my older 2.0 sticks as a just in case!

Cheers.