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can i install windows 10 onto a usb
I want to know if it is possible to install windows 10 onto a usb drive so that i can boot to it instead of a hard drive
I want to know if it is possible to install windows 10 onto a usb drive so that i can boot to it instead of a hard drive
I believe it is called WindowsToGo, but I haven't ever ready that it works well.
This is easier
UEFI boot manager, Windows To Go Creator, All-in-One Microsoft Windows Setup software - The EasyUEFI Development Team
Download tool, use it to put iso on usb stick - that's it.
Note: you can only do legacy boot on a usb flash drive unless special wintogo drive.
Yes, it is set up as MBR and legacy booting. I used the WinToUSB program. I made 3 partitions. Part 1 was the "system" partition to hold the boot files, set as active. Partition 2 was for Windows 10 Pro 64-bit. Partition 3 was for Windows 10 Home 32-bit. The first install went as expected, selected Part 1 for the system partition for the boot files, partition 2 to install the OS to.
Then when I tried to install the second OS, I originally tried the same thing, Part 1 as the system partition and part 3 to install the OS to. WinToUSB complained that there was already an OS installed. So I changed it to part 3 for both the system partition and the OS partition, and that went fine, but that set part 3 as active.
I then manually changed back to part 1 as the active partition. Booted it into Windows 10 Pro, and used BCDBOOT command to add the Windows 10 Home 32-bit to the boot menu.
I was then going to do the same thing to add Windows 7 to a 4th partition in exactly the same way, and I actually got it installed, added to the boot menu, and booted into it, but after I created a user account Windows 7 complained about not starting the login server and could load user profile. I didn't really want to mess with it too much, so I just scrapped the idea of adding Windows 7 to it.