Win2Go

Win2Go is a graphical tool to create portable installations of Windows on USB devices from Linux. By this it does not create a bootable Windows installation media but an actual full-blown Windows installation ready to use.

All that is needed is a large enough USB device and an up-to-date Windows ISO install image.

Win2Go will then format the USB device and extract Windows from the ISO image onto the device. Set up the Windows bootloader and that's it.

Source Code

Components

For more details about additional components Win2Go uses see the dedicated components section.

Unsupported features

Win2Go has a very specific use case: To install portable versions of Windows onto USB devices. However there a certain features users might request which are beyond the scope of Win2Go.

See the dedicated unsupported features section for more details

Troubleshooting

If you ran into some issues with Win2Go please refer to our troubleshooting guide.

Special thanks to

While Win2Go does not use any of these tools we still want to honor them as they revealed a lot about the underlying processes involved to create portable versions of Windows:

• jxctn0 - win2go Shell Script
• BCD-SYS - BCD Shell Script