Windows 11 USB boot environment for maintenance

Is there a way to create/download a Windows 11 boot environment?... for a non-techie

I want to boot/start Windows 11 from a USB drive so Windows 11 could be run without locking up the files on the C:/Boot drive.

When I was running Windows 7, someone had created a ZIP file that could be written to a USB drive so Windows 7 could be run from the USB boot drive without locking up the files on the C:/Boot drive.

I could restore an image of the C drive using DriveImage XML (when Windows failed to start and could not fix itself) plus run MyDefrag that could defrag files that were normally locked and could not be moved.

The last boot environment I found was for Windows 10.
Please advise.
Thanks
I do NOT want to reinstall or "fix" Windows 11.
I downloaded [Win11_24H2_English_x64.iso] from Microsoft and used Rufus to put it on a USB drive, but I just prompted something about drivers???