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Hi,
If by special wintogo drive you understand a flash drive that is seen by W10 as a disk as opposed to the typical removable sticks and provided it's pretty fast (say read/rite well over 300mb/s) then it will work as a wintogo drive.Note: you can only do legacy boot on a usb flash drive unless special wintogo drive.
Most manufacturers that offer certified Wintogo usb drives sell these for silly money and some aren't even all that fast either.
Mine is a MushkinVentura Ultra 120Gb which is probably the fastest you can get and it's not overly expensive.
Wintogo comes with some restrictions though. No hibernation or sleep modus, for instance. Plus you must shutdown the system before you can unplug it.
The advantage is that if its installed to both support bios and UEFI then you can plug it in on most computers and it should still work just fine.
If TS only wants to boot from a usb stick without it having windows installed on it then that's something else altogether.
Cheers,
I managed to do the same with UEFI. If anything it is slightly simpler as you do not have to mark partitions active.
It took me a while to get the bcdboot syntax correct, and struggled until I realised I had to boot to a Winpe environment but go there.
Basic steps
1) partition hard drive using script like this
rem == CreatePartitions-UEFI.txt ==
rem == These commands are used with DiskPart to
rem create two partitions needed for wintousb
rem for a UEFI/GPT-based PC.
rem ============
rem adjust disk number to suit eg if one internal drives most likely n=1, 2 drives n=2 etc
rem use list disk first
rem WARNING if you do not get this right you could wipe wrong disk
select disk 2
clean
convert gpt
create partition efi size=360
format quick fs=fat32 label="System"
assign letter=S
rem == Create the Windows partition ==========
create partition primary
format quick fs=ntfs label="Windows"
assign
2) install windows (10 in my case) using wintousb 3.0
3) shrink windows partition from disk management and create new partition and initialsie an ntfs volume (could have done it in diskpart but then I would have had to mess around with sizes)
4) install next windows (8 in my case) in new partition overwriting EFI partition
5) boot from win 10 usb drive, get to command prompt and use bcdboot command to add first OS boot entry back (which was overwritten).
I then went all round the houses doing adding virtual hard drives as well which also worked.
Once I worked out steps and syntax of commands, it worked very well.
Cool! Thanks for the update! I'm replacing my last legacy BIOS laptop this week, so I can go with 100% UEFI next week. Getting myself an Intel i7-4702HQ based 17.3" ASUS. Looks like it is going to be fun replacing the 2TB hard drive with a 500GB SSD, though, since the whole top keyboard/bazel has to come off.
Thanks! Will give it a go as soon as Anniversary edition comes out.