This is where the process loses a star for accessibility. Once the USB is plugged into the target machine, you have to interrupt the boot process to select the USB drive as the boot device.
However, the speed of this phase is entirely hardware-dependent. If you are installing from a USB 2.0 drive onto a spinning Hard Disk Drive (HDD), grab a coffee (or a nap). It can take upwards of 45 minutes. Conversely, using a USB 3.0 drive to install onto an NVMe SSD is blisteringly fast—my recent install took under 10 minutes to copy files. reinstall windows with usb
This is where the process loses a star for accessibility. Once the USB is plugged into the target machine, you have to interrupt the boot process to select the USB drive as the boot device.
However, the speed of this phase is entirely hardware-dependent. If you are installing from a USB 2.0 drive onto a spinning Hard Disk Drive (HDD), grab a coffee (or a nap). It can take upwards of 45 minutes. Conversely, using a USB 3.0 drive to install onto an NVMe SSD is blisteringly fast—my recent install took under 10 minutes to copy files.
