A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

You can create a portable PC on a USB stick and run it from anywhere. Here's a step-by-step guide on how to do it with Linux.

If you’d rather make your own, however, this guide will show you two different ways to create a USB flash drive that works just like a Windows 10 DVD.

If you have a a new computer with an empty hard drive, then you can use these steps to correctly install Windows 11.