How to Install Windows 10 or 11 on an External USB Drive / Step by Step
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2023
- ✅ Hi!
Today I suggest you watch a video tutorial on how to install Windows 10 or 11 on any external USB drive, I will use a USB flash drive with a capacity of about 250 GB.
After the end of the process, you can connect this USB flash drive to any computer, and Windows 10 or 11 will work from this USB flash drive, even if the computer does not have a working C drive, and you need to restore it, remove viruses from the operating system, or transfer important data from a locked computer, if you forgot your Windows password.
👉Link to download page for Windows 10:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...
👉Link to Rufus download page:
rufus.ie/en/#
👉How to boot a PC from a USB flash drive and how to open the boot menu:
• How to boot a PC from ...
⏱️Time codes:
0:55 Loading ISO Windows 11
2:50 Download Rufus on PC
3:19 Installing Windows 11 on a USB flash drive.
5:30 Completing the installation of Windows 11
7:38 Windows 11 installed!
➡️How to enter the Boot Menu:
Desktops:
MSI (motherboard) - AMI (BIOS) - F11
Gigabyte-Award - F12
BioStar-Phoenix-Award - F9
Asus-AMI - F8
Intel-Phoenix-Award - Esc
AsRock-AMI - F11
ChainTech - missing
ECS-AMI - F11
FoxConn - Esc
Gigabyte - F12
laptops:
Asus - Esc
Acer - F12
Asus AMI - Esc
Asus Phoenix-Award - F8
Dell - F12
Fujitsu - F12
HP - Esc then F9
Lenovo - F12
MSI - F11
Samsung - Esc (note - press only 1 time during the boot screen!)
Sony - F11
Toshiba - F12
Thanks and good luck everyone! 🙂
Bravo! Thanks a bunch for your flawless tutorial. To the point without all the fluff and waffling on. My kind of tutorial. Liked and subbed.
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Excellent tutorial, you saved me from my corrupt HDD. Thanks for the help, you have just earned my subscription.❤
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These are the kind of tutorials worth my comment and a like.
Thank you so much
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Is there a chance of seeing a tutorial for Pop OS in the near future please? That would be nice.
Thank you sir
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Finally, i am successful 😊
Thanks a million
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Can you move/copy windows from the usb onto the computer itself? I am only doing this because my computer has no os :( or do i have to always have the usb connection
If I understand you correctly, your computer does not have an OS, but you have Windows installed on an external USB drive.
To install Windows on your computer’s hard drive, most likely the only and simple solution to this problem is to do the following, but for this you need another USB flash drive:
You need to boot your computer from your USB drive with Windows, then create a bootable Windows 10 or 11 USB flash drive and install a new Windows 10 or on your computer:
czcams.com/video/SB-u10x5lFg/video.html
You can transfer, that is, clone Windows from a hard drive to an external USB drive using a special application:
czcams.com/video/5rXgAesqrx4/video.html
It is possible that it is also possible to clone Windows from an external USB drive to a computer, but I have not done this and cannot answer for sure.
Here are two options for you - choose the one that suits you.
How long did it take to download the ISO file. Edit: never mind, saw the answer in the replies
can i use the standard installation on my portable ssd, im trying to do a dual boot dual drive
Yes, sure!
Thank you for the step by step instructions. Everything went well until I had some confusion with the reboot step. My computer did reboot after pressing the F11 key on my computer but I did not get the "PLEASE SELECT BOOT DEVICE" option. I am now confused as what to look for and what to do at this point. If you have the time to give me a more detailed instruction I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank you.
I'm sorry, but different device manufacturers have different BIOSes and there is no single standard in the world.
To find out how to open the Boot Menu, you need to write this question in CZcams Search or in Browser Search the following phrase:
"How to open the Boot Menu on a laptop (and here you write the name, for example Lenovo V15 Gen 3), if you have a desktop computer, then write the name of the Motherboard
This way you will know how to open the Boot Menu.
👉How to enter the Boot Menu:
Desktops:
MSI (motherboard) - AMI (BIOS) - F11
Gigabyte-Award - F12
BioStar-Phoenix-Award - F9
Asus-AMI - F8
Intel-Phoenix-Award - Esc
AsRock-AMI - F11
ChainTech - missing
ECS-AMI - F11
FoxConn - Esc
Gigabyte - F12
laptops:
Asus - Esc
Acer - F12
Asus AMI - Esc
Asus Phoenix-Award - F8
Dell - F12
Fujitsu - F12
HP - Esc then F9
Lenovo - F12
MSI - F11
Samsung - Esc (note - press only 1 time during the boot screen!)
Sony - F11
Toshiba - F12
Thank you again. I was successful in completing the setup with your help. Please forgive me, I am not tech savvy. One other question. When I go to "MY PC" I would like to be able to choose between booting up either my internal drive or my external drive. I don't see or cannot access both drives the way it is set up now. The way it is now, I have to restart and press the F9 key each time to access the reboot menu to switch between the 2 drives. Is that the only way, or have I done something incorrectly during setup? The reason I want this is my hard drive is full on my laptop, so I just purchased a 2 TB external SSD drive for extra space. I was hoping after setting up the new drive I would be able to drag and drop items from one drive to the other. Is this just wishful thinking? Any way thank you for your knowledge and time. I can live with it the way it is if no other option is available. All the best to you.@@ipMalik
@@addison436 Yes, the only option to boot Windows from one of your two disks is to restart the laptop and call the Boot Menu.
When you boot Windows from your laptop and open This Computer, this window should display all the drives connected to the laptop and you can freely and easily open these drives and drag and drop files as you need.
Open This PC, then open the external drive, here you will see the Windows folder, Program Files, User and other folders.
Open the User folder and there you will find files located on the external drive.
The system may display a message that access to these folders is denied, but ignore this and continue opening the following folders - this message will no longer appear.
And one more thing - you said that you bought an external drive only to store files, since there was little space on the laptop, but I don’t understand why you installed Windows on the external drive..
You could use an external drive as storage, that is, as a USB flash drive and for this you do not need to install Windows on the external drive.
If this is the case, now you can simply format the external drive and use it as a USB flash drive.
There are many reasons for this problem and it is simply impossible to give you an exact answer in the comments...
As users' computers and laptops become more and more diverse in disk partition tables (GPT and MBR), HDD operating modes (AHCI and IDE) and boot types (EFI and Legacy), errors when installing Windows 10 are also becoming more frequent, caused by these parameters. Your case is just one of those mistakes.
Moreover, you did not write what edition of Windows you have on your computer, what size is the external drive, and so on.
I think that you need to look for a solution to the problem on the Internet, where you can find it with a detailed description of the solution to the problem, with tables, screenshots, and so on.
what is the difference between the 2 partition schemes?
gpt or mbr what is the difference?
www.howtogeek.com/193669/whats-the-difference-between-gpt-and-mbr-when-partitioning-a-drive/#:~:text=On%20an%20MBR%20disk%2C%20the,if%20the%20data%20is%20corrupted.
hey, why cant i connect to internet on this new drive?
From a distance it is difficult for me to determine this problem; when I installed Windows on an external drive there were no problems.
Download the Network adapter and put it in another usb drive. Use another computer to do that. Pretty much straight forward
Wait so i can use an external expansion drive for this?
Yes, sure!
While installing windows, it shows windows cannot be installed to this disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a usb or IEEE 1394 port. What is the solution to this ????
www.google.com/search?q=Setup+does+not+support+configuration+of+or+installation+to+disks+connected+through+a+usb+or+IEEE+1394+port&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
@@ipMalik where is the solution in this ?? not properly defined
@@aaqibayashkaar4376 On the Internet you can find the right solution to any problem, you just need to ask the right question..
If you can’t figure it out on your own, try turning to a person who understands something about programming and you will see for yourself how easily a specialist can solve this problem.
why not usb flash drive than ISO?
id like to know also
Selecting USB drive instead of ISO will create a source USB from which you would install to internal drive, this option will not allow you to install from this USB to another USB. Instead, using ISO+Rufus, rufus installs a special "windows to go" version that is already directly installed on the USB.
Do you have an English version of this?
That was a weird question.. I made this video in English.
Or did I misunderstand you?
How long does it take?
This depends on the performance of the computer, the writing and reading speed of the external drive and the speed of the Internet connection.
On average 1 hour - 1.5 hours.
Got it bro, took 45 mins all good ✌️ thank you and bless up
Jesus Christ. Now I have to wait almost a hour
Thanks for the lesson, but to be honest, a Windows on a flash drive is not practical, the installation slow and the boot takes forever
Yes, the data transfer speed with a SATA cable is much higher than USB.
But there are some tasks for which Windows on an external drive is a salvation for the computer.
Can you show that how to run blue stacks in flash drive of 128gb ram . Then I will subscribe to your chanal and some more subscribers will provide. Thank you
I'm sorry, but I don't play computer games and therefore can't give recommendations from my experience.
I'm sure there are videos on this topic on CZcams, try looking for them.
that's bullshit, win10 installer asks for USB SSD drivers, watched this just to see how to solve this and didn't get the answer, useless video