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The USB drive used for Win10

TemjinGold

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If I have a flash drive that's much larger than needed (say 8 or 16 gb), would I be able to put other things on it after the Media Creation utility thingy makes the drive a Win10 install drive? Or would that mess up the Win10 install (i.e. does the install copy everything from the flash over somewhere or does it know which stuff to use even if there is non-Win 10 stuff in there)? Basically, I went and downloaded the backups of MS Office and Acrobat Pro from their respective sites because those are the last 2 pieces of software I own that are still on DVDs. If I can cram all 3 into a flash drive and not have to deal with the DVDs, then my next build won't have a dvd drive (and I'll get a case that doesn't have room for one either).