Is there a way that wouldn t screw up dual boot? How about the drivers?
i have USBC interface on both the laptop and ext SSD. And I want to install W10 on the SSD while having Fedora on the internal SSD.
Windows don't work well on an external drive. And you have to make some tricks to make it work (Windows to go).
Linux can manage it better.
I suggest you make a partition on your drive and install windows and Linux on same drive. (that is what I have on my desktop).
You can replace the ODD (CD / DVD drive) with a caddy to hold the other SSD. There are two types of laptops ODDs: 9.5mm or 12.7mm high.
You must buy a caddy of the same high .
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Then you have both drives internally and each one with a OS.
You select one as your first boot option and select the second with the boot menu (F12)
The Sony Vaio I'm using right now has a 120G SSD and a 1T HDD installed on a 12.7mm Caddy.
Hi there
@doriandiaconu
Windows2GO is quite easy to do -- works perfectly :
Here's how to do it easily :
so assuming you have the Windows iso and a spare ssd external USB drive
target Windows partition -> drive W
target EFI partition -> drive S
Source windows iso image drive Q
i've put quotes around the dism commands to stop "smiley's" being generated in the command lines.
1) create EFI partition
in administrator mode : -- diskpart,list disk select disk nn clean convert gpt, create partition efi size 250
format fs=fat32
assign letter=S
2) create Windows target partition -- still in diskpart create partition primary, format fs=ntfs quick
assign letter=W, exit
3) mount the windows iso -- simply click on the iso with file explorer -- will mount - here I assume it's Q
4) you might have more than one windows image on the iso - especially if you created the iso from UUPDUMP so you need to display what windows versions are on the iso image :
"dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:Q:\sources\install.wim"
in my case it shows that windows for workstations has index 2 so that's the version I'll use on WTG drive
5) use dism to get the image on to the target drive
"dism /Apply-Image /ImageFile:Q:\sources\install.wim /Index:2 /ApplyDir:W:"
On a decent SSD could take around 10 mins for this step
5) now create the boot entry on the target drive in the UEFI :
W:\Windows\System32\bcdboot W:\Windows /f UEFI /s S:
note - you must run this command using the program from the image copied to the target Windows drive--not your running Windows system or the mounted iso.
Now all done -- simply re-boot your external Windows to Go drive - install and update at will.
@Megahertz - if you run Windows2Go on an SSD connected to the machine via UXB3/USB3.1/USBC >SATA connector Windows runs perfectly fast enough on an external device as Win2GO - probably similar to internal HDD's - and if your internal HDD's are older Spinners (non SSD / NVme) then it will run a lot faster.
(If boot fails use Macrium Free stand alone recovery media and use "Fix Windows Boot problems" - this for me has always worked - and I've done a load of these "WintoGO" things.
However depending on what you use most - I'd have LINUX on the external drive and Windows on the internal one -- or run Windows as a VM on a Linux Host - simple to do - or run Linux on a Windows Host.
You've loads of choices here.
Cheers
jimbo
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