Installing windows 10 on a usb flash drive

I do not have a spare pc to install this build on. I would like to install it on a removable flash drive, not on the active windows 7 partition. It appears that the setup installation command does not support specifying a target drive.
Any suggestions?

On Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:24:49 +0000, Jesús Octavio Rodríguez de Santiago
wrote:
this is a option http://blogs.itpro.es/jairgomez/2015/01/26/instalacion-de-windows-10-por-usb/
No, it isn't. Aside from the fact that this is an English forum and your
web site is in Spanish, the OP is looking to run Windows 10 from a USB
device, not install it from a USB device.
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