We’ve all been there. You’ve just finished building a PC or resurrecting an old laptop, but you realize you don’t have a 8GB USB flash drive lying around. Or worse—your USB ports are fried, and the DVD drive broke years ago.
Right-click the new unallocated space and select . install windows from hdd
Proceed with extreme caution. Unlike installing from a USB, installing from a secondary HDD is safe. However, installing from the same physical drive where the Windows ISO is located (booting from a partition on the same drive) creates a "nested" installation that can be messy and prone to data loss. We’ve all been there
Select your original Windows partition (usually the largest drive) as the installation destination. Click to let the system copy files and install the OS. 🧹 Step 6: Post-Installation Cleanup Right-click the new unallocated space and select
If you are rewriting the draft, structure it like this: