Well once you made the drive on your pc … plug it into the pc you want to format to and during the startup of your pc you’ll need to select the thumbdrive if it’s windows insert the drive, restart your computer, and immediately tap the manufacturer's Boot Menu key (commonly F12, F2, F8, Esc, or Del) to select the USB device.

Just saying because I think the thumbdrive is fine 😊

Booting directly from the USB drive (which is turned into a Bootable drive with Rufus for example) so instead of using your C: drive (or whatever it is for you) to load your OS, you load into the OS on the USB drive. This can be selected in your bios, which drive it will prioritize to boot from.