I've heard that people do such things (using something called Rufus?), and I have an older machine -16 GB RAM, i7-6700 3060 Ti, ASUS Z170-A motherboard-- running Windows 10 Pro-- that I want to keep ...
A few months ago I migrated from an old SSD to a new one. I cloned my Windows 10 partition and have been using it happily since. However, Windows Update is broken ...