How to Install Windows 10 Directly onto USB External Hard Drive
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- Windows 10 setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks through a USB or IEEE 1394 port, so the easiest way to install Windows 10 onto a USB External Hard Drive is through a program called WinToUSB.
Steps:
1) Plug in your USB External Hard Drive and format NTFS
2) Download Windows 10 ISO Media Creation tool and WinToUSB
3) Use Windows setup to download Windows.iso
4) Install WinToUSB and deploy Windows.iso onto your USB External Hard Drive
5) Restart your computer and press F2 to get into BIOS
6) In BIOS, go to the Boot tab and see if you have a Legacy Support and Legacy First option. Put these two on. Skip otherwise.
7) Restarting your computer, press F12 to get into Boot Manager. Select your USB External Hard Drive.
8) Finish setting up Windows 10 on your USB External Hard Drive.
I am using a Samsung T3 Portable SSD - 500GB - USB 3.1 External SSD:
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01...
Windows 10 ISO download link:
www.microsoft.com/en-us/softw...
WinToUSB:
www.easyuefi.com/wintousb
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Well explained easy to follow. I was trying to install windows on a EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE as well and the normal process wouldn't go thru because Windows does not allow "INSTALLATION THROUGH USB" but i came across your video and now i have it running thanks to you and wintousb lol. Thanks man keep the hard work! 🥰
Even in 2022, this has helped me immensely with reviving a dead 2011 Toshiba Laptop 🤣 Thank you so much for being able to help me bring back my computer
at first i had no hope and then i found your video and it worked thank you
Bruv same
IF YOU DON'T CLEAN THAT MONITOR, SO HELP ME GOD.
@Josh Ramasawmy Thats what I tell myself when i'm lazy.
i intentionally dont clean mine. i prefer hard/gross mode computing/gameplay
@Josh Ramasawmy so you clean them more often. That’s kind of like saying “nah I don’t need to bathe because I have a job where I get all dirty and sweaty all the time anyway so I’m just going to chill in musty af mode”.
Nah chief, you bathe more often then 😂
🤣🤣🤣 as soon as I seen the monitor I seen this comment!
Ha! After such a great tutorial, I’ll clean it once for free.
I have had this video saved on my bookmarks for a couple years. It never lets me down. 👍🏼
3 years later and still worth it. Thanks
Dude, you have no idea of how you saved my life.
For posteriority: tried October 2021 with a PC from 2018, with a Samsung SSD of 256Go. Worked perfectly.
I wanted to install Windows 10 on my USB External Hard Drive for game development purposes.
Then, I found out that I couldn't do the installation normally through a bootable USB Flash Drive, so I thought that this video would be useful for people since I watched a few too many tutorials with text on Notepad on CZcams!
After I've followed all this and installed on USB 3.0 drive when i use windows ten it is incredibly clunky and slow is this normal? I am using a 3.1 USB which should have the ultimate fastest transfer speeds...yes i tried it on the regular 3.0 usb too both have same affect slow and clunky and suggestions??
yea i just left my my hard drive going for 8 hours and it barley got to 25% any tips?
stuck at 0% doesnt work why are u posting fake video?
How can I do the same but instead on the same drive I will install it to another HDD (Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit and it needs a clean install)
bRo, Thank You.
Love your CLEAR, Patient Voice and simple instruction; GREAT JOB! Thank you.
You did it, *great job* -rage racer. :P
After using it as a bootable drive, can it still be used as a storage drive on other devices
Thank you for this informational video. I tried every method I could possibly find. This was the only one that worked. 🙏🏼 you’re awesome!
The MegaMan 3 ending credits song gives the cherry on top of this. Very helpful
Massive thanks for this video. I've now successfully installed Windows 10 on an external SSD drive and with the help of another video set up updates to install. It runs like a dream too, much better than Bootcamp on the same HDD. Thanks!!
I've been thinking about doing this too. What ssd did you use and how's the speed? Apparently the external drives are supposed to be much slower but with an ssd and usb 3.2 I imagine it would run quickly.
I used a Crucial SSD with a Sabrent enclosure from amazon. Works brilliantly and very fast compared to when I had it bootcamped on the internal fusion drive. Only thing I had to do was download the Windows support software and manually Install the drivers which took 5 minutes at most.
Phenomenal tutorial. You spoke so clearly, all steps were easy to follow and complete, and most importantly, everything works! A like and subscription from me!
I thought I was watching the unveiling of the IPhone 😅
Dude thanks. After spending hours in agony, I can now feel the sweetness of bliss.
I feel you, just in the same situation rn.
R u both switching windows off the main hard drive cos of how slow it gets as well?
@@pepsusser No, in my case I have an ssd and the speed is alright. I use windows off the main drive for testing out applications
@@webstime1 ah thats fair
4 years later and your still helping peeps, thankyou
This is one of the best tutorials i have seen. a lot of tutorials waffle on and its to long.. You went through each step quickly and concisely. Really enjoyed it bro. I've subscribed to you now. will have a look through your other videos. do you have a tutorials for writing python?
Thank you for this guide hun everything works perfectly on my new pc you’ve brought me much happiness your directions were straight forward and simple and just Incase anyone is concerned you can do this on a different pc and then take the external hard drive and simply plug it into the pc that you want to have Windows 10 and when you turn the pc on it will automatically boot windows set up like he said. for me my pc did restart itself after loading windows for a few minutes when it turned back on it was finished loading and I could start the set up
Great video man. I'm extremely happy this was the video I watched instead of the other videos. The quality of this was amazing, simple, neat and clean.
YOU ARE A FRICKING LEGEND, ive been trying to install Windows 10 on the ssd i got from christmas for the past 2 days and you solved it Quick and easy, you made my day, thank you SO much
Amazing Guy you are Solved my problem i was Stacked in since 6 hours 🤨
Great info Thanks mate
Guys this is outstanding, just imagen after installing it you can plug it in and it runs normally. great video man keep it up you have helped much.
Yeah but it runs at a whopping 250MB/s. Blazingly slow.
Great video! This helped me to make it all work, thanks!!
Thank you for the superb instructions. your procedure worked perfectly after I spent days trying EVERYTHING else!
thank you so much, this video guides me to install windows 10 onto an external usb hard drive successfully.
I followed the instructions and the result was as expected. Very good and detailed presentation. Thank you very much.
Thanks for this; it's the only approach that worked for me! The latest version of WinToUSB has a new dialog box asking whether you want to use GPT for UEFI for MBR for BIOS. GPT didn't work for me, but MBR did.
I happen to be using a Y700 too, so this tutorial was extra-helpful. Thanks again!
Thank you for commenting this. Would've had to retry if I picked the wrong one!
Thanks for commenting
I downloaded the same version of wintousb as author of the video and had no problem with windows 10pro and UEFI. I turned off internet in case the program would try to make me upgrade. Everything worked like a charm. Unfortunately this windows doesnt see my internal hdd, witch was why I did this in the first place. If anyone has any tips, they are more then welcome;)
FANTASTIC!! So clear & concise. Worked perfectly. THANK YOU!!
Indeed a life saving video, I spent close to 8 hours just to stumble on this
Thanks for all the information.
Note: Make sure that you make SSD disk an MBR disk on Disk Management. For GPT disks, WinToUSB Next button will be disabled.
How do you do this ? I can find no options for it.
@@DanLo-tube you still need help?
@@afekowogamer9093 I stopped trying such install, but would be cool having the answer. :)
@@DanLo-tubein the start of the video he show disk management.
You need to right click on the left side instead of the right side and it will show to switch between gpt and mbr
If you still don't get it i can record for you a video
@@afekowogamer9093 I'll check that. Thanks ! :)
Can I perform the installation of Windows iso using WinToUSB on my desktop computer but I will use the external hard drive as main boot drive in my laptop computer?
Edit: It works. I tried it.
thats what i was gonna ask ! i hope it will work for me too
Aren't there problems or conflicts since original installation configures hardware drivers and other things based on desktop, then you move it to laptop that has different hardware?
@@itorres008 can't you just reconfigure it or install the missing drivers?
I spent days trying to clone my win10 onto samsung ssd but bios said drive wasn't accessible so total frustration. I followed your instructions and -perfect. Thank you so much. Your video is excellent without the usual. hype. Brilliant!
I gave it a shot and can confirm this works. Thank you so much ❤️
It worked perfectly
I recommend this tutorial. Very well explained
Did you have to use a product key?
Thank you for this, my laptop's internal hard drive failed and I don't have the money to get it repaired or to replace it so I'm hopeful I can just use an external hard drive instead
Did it work? Cause I am in the same sit
@@saidbekkhalikov7199 Yes, it did. I originally bought an external HDD because I didn't want to spend a ton of money just in case it didn't work but it did so I decided to spring and get an external SSD to use as my boot drive, which also worked.
thx for your video man, i've tried a lot of videos but i couldn't fix the problem and yours did help me one time, keep it up
thank you very much for your video! do you think I can do this from my mac and use Windows on my 500gb external usb hard drive?
It was very helpful thank you !
But I have a problem, I wanted to reinstall Windows 10 on a PC, I installed it but it only detect my USB external drive and the internal hard drive. How can I resolve this problem and install correctly ? Thanks
cmd as admin bootsect /nt60 c: /force /mbr
bcdboot c:\windows /s c: where c:=main internal drive, it should boot in main drive and not the external drive ok.
Try unplugging the USB Drive before booting your PC
After I restarted the computer it's opened on external driver! I would like to say thank you!
Thank you for this video how-to. I was SOL with an internal hard drive connection gone. This knowlede saved the day.
People like you are the HERO'S of CZcams! Thank you!!
Great video, very helpful :-)
Can i do this process (install windows 10 on usb hard drive) then replace the local hard drive for the one i had on my usb hard drive?
Yes you can.
You can technically but you’ll want to take some other steps too. Did you ever do this? Can I ask why you wanted to do it that way ?
@@Fee.1 what other steps? I'm trying to do exactly what he intended to but I'm so clueless rn
This has helped me a lot thanks man 👊🏽
I’m doing this now and so far this video is super helpful, when I gets it done and working I’ll let you know , thanks bro ✌️✌️✌️
I like how he's proud of his 500 Gb drive
Well this was 2017
@@post_low Exactly.
I like how youre snobby about the size of his hardware seems like youre compensating
@@blameableemu dude it's really not that big of deal it's just that now 500 is pretty standard, even most computers you buy pre made have about a terabyte, honestly seems like you're compensating for something by trying to be on some sort of high horse in a CZcams comment
It used to be expensive, shut up if you don’t know.
You forgot to mention that WinToUSB requires activation/payment to install Windows 10 Pro. Kind of a deal breaker for this whole approach.
use 3.5 version www.filehorse.com/download-wintousb/29521/download/
@@ManojKr-rb8jz what do i do itnsays it does nit support hvdx
Thank you for this very interesting video. I have an Asus all in one PC and was going to swap the 3.5 HDD for an SSD. Then buy an enclosure for the old HDD and use it as storage. However, now I have watched your video I am reconsidering my options. Can you tell me if you tested the speed of your PC with the SSD connected via the internal SATA 111 connection verses a USB 3 connection? Is there a noticeable difference in the PCs performance?
Thanks a lot! This video was really helpful. Wish you all the best. Keep creating more videos.
I like how he is fast acting like we did it before
We did
youtube has a slow down option
Help. I cant get past the destination disk selection. Wintousb doesnt highlight the next button. what can i do?
Heelo,
Just came back to say thankyou, loved your " straight to the point" points.
It was a pleasant video to watch, and helpful.
I will have to watch the video again before I try it, but your instructions were excellent--easy to understand and follow.
very good ... well done
just one comment as I had troubles to go to Next after I reach min 7:10 if you stuck and the Next button not active you need to delete the partition
convert the USB drive to MBR partition scheme and create the system and boot partitions. The system partition must be FAT32 format and the boot partition must be NTFS format.
• Booting BIOS-based computers: Please convert the USB drive to MBR partition scheme and create the system and boot partitions. The system partition can be FAT32 or NTFS format and the boot partition must be NTFS format. The system partition and boot partition can be the same partition.
• Booting UEFI-based computers: Please convert the USB drive to GPT partition scheme and create the EFI system partition (ESP)and boot partition. The EFI system partition must be FAT32 format and the boot partition must be NTFS format
www.easyuefi.com/resource/convert-gpt-to-mbr.html for more details
how do you do any of this?
Thanks Yasser, that was great help.
you are a unsung HERO my friend!!!!thank you soo much!
Question: Can I still use the hard drive for storing other files after I'm done with this process?
I was wondering too lmk if u find out
After flashing the USB drive and installing windows you CAN store other files on it HOWEVER after you install windows anything that used to be on the drive is now deleted. So make a backup then put them back on it.
You Rock! straight forward and concise. Thank you.
Four years later and this saved my girl's laptop. TNX
So I did all this booted successfully into windows 10... Set it up and shutdown it properly. But the when I booted in again.. I have blue screen of death saying "Your pc ran into problem and needs to restart. You can restart." Critical service failed is the error. Help!!!
You deleted something or a virus has done something. This only happens if your Computer runs into a real critical error.
@@lowkeyz7139 Hey pal can you help me out? I'm about to build my first pc because my laptop broke, I stupidly didn't have a USB windows 10 bootable drive on hand. I'm stuck with trying to download the windows 10 creation media tool but my only other device is a windows 7 vista which isn't supported. Is there a way to get this USB loaded with the essentials without it having to go through my C: drive? I really don't want to have to buy one already created.
@@lowkeyz7139 tHANKS. Although i just repeated the process. it works fine now. thanks mate
I did everything but my pc doesn’t recognize my old hdd as a storage device
You formatted your old HDD? That worked for me. If that doesn't work, what method did you use to connect your HDD to your Desktop/Laptop?
@@DatRitzBoi but why should you format it? All your data would get lost.
In my case I have a blue screen. Thats why I want to boot from an external ssd and access my data on my hdd. But I dont know if this is possible.....
thank you for this video and i looove that outro music LOL
Thank you for being a normal person! Thank God! We are so few in the world today. And thank you for being precise.
Good explanation but maybe hit that screen first with a swifter before posting.
im selecting the destination disk but it keeps saying: sector size not supported.
Genuine windows 10 product key here:#plus.google.com/u/0/105400162842646727933
This is most likely because your usb drive is too small, I would not recommend installing windows on less than supported space but if you are trying to install a version like tiny7, this is how you do it. Right click on your WINTOUSB icon on desktop, and click open file location. It will take you to the bin folder in the wintousb install. Now right click on WinToUSB.ini, go to open with, and select notepad. Go to MinimumVHDSize and it will most likely say something like =16 edit that to whatever the size of your usb is and save notepad may prompt you to resave the file so do that. After that, open WINTOUSB and it sould work, I am sorry that I am a little late, but I hope this helped, thank you -Aidan
Sorry I made a mistake, go to notepad on your start menu, right click it, open it as administartor, drag WinToUSB.ini into it -Aidan
Fusionz C what external HDD you used
dude YOU ROCK! My western digi 1 tb on my y700 just started clanking!
I PUT WINDOWS10 ON EXTERNAL USB DRIVE, SKIPPED CDRIVE, POERED UP AND RECOVERED MOST C DRIVE B4 REPLACING IT! SWEEEEET!!!!
Amazing, exceptionally clearly explained. Sincere appreciation I've never watched a CZcams video that was so explicative and straightforward.🌺💚
i have a problem
when i click "create installation media for another pc" and leave the default settings
i click next and it doesn't give me a "which flash drive would you like to install windows on?" or a file selection
it just says , "you need 8 gb free from (C:)"
can someone help me??
ps i cant erase the 8 gb i need, they are computer files that i can't erase
in the previous step you need to choose "ISO File"
what happens to the data in your current internal HDD? is it still there or is it lost ?
It is still there, and no changes are made.
The computer will just boot from a different drive until your change it back.
I am super impressed by how my Sandisk Cruiser glide handles this so smoothly, it’s only 32 gb and I don’t think I was meant to be fast
worked perfectly thank you my friend also I had that same laptop before the motherboard stopped working on me
Thx rice gum great video
lol
lmao nice
for me its stuck at 0 percent
i know i m late 2 years but for the other people who are going to watch it s gonna stay at 0 percent for 5 minutes but then it will go(in about 15-20 min or sp it will be ready)
@@fifimania6117 thank you
Thank you for this video man. Really appreciate it!
not letting me hit next at 7:38
same. any answer to this?
BluD same
First you need to close wintousb, and open cmd in admin mode. After that typy diskpart in cmd. Then type "list disk" then select your external drive example if your drive is number 2 type "select disk 2" then type "clean" after that, exit cmd and right click computer, click manage, go to disk management. Then you'll need to initilize your disk to "mbr" and not "guid" then you'll format the drive as shown in video and it will work
Actually, what I did was that my hard drive wasn't formatted into NTFS. You go to disk manager and format your disk to NTFS, and the "next" button will show.
Thanks for the help man , it worked for me
Great video I would change the link to the 3.5 version to allow windows 10 without paying. Also add the fact that the drive will need to be converted to mbr if it is gpt... go to manage delete volume and right click disk then convert to mbr then format drive in ntfs....
Link for 3.5
filehippo.com/download_wintousb/73839/
colton boomer best comment ever!!!!
colton boomer with yr tips i resolve!!!
tanks
even after 5 years this tutorial works awesome thanks man
This method still works as I was having problems with my corrupted internal SSD on my Amazon pre-built Desktop by CyberpowerPC, and I had to use another storage device, which happens to be the Samsung Portable SSD T5 1TB. Thank you MicrowaveSam for this simple tutorial.
FYI I had to buy a license for WinToUSB because the option of Keeping the Same Partition is not available for the free version. BUT!!!! It is worth buying $29.95 for a method that is foolproof compared to having to buy a completely getup or build to fix a windows booting problem.
Again, thank you SAM!!!!
how do you get in bios on the windows 10 installed on usb
The bios is not part of the Operation System. :)
rip
Thankx you so much for great explain ..thankx again from India
Very neat explanation. This procedure still works (October 2021) with minor adaptations.
Need to try this. It'll be a great way to back up files for the laptop.
Awesome video you saved my day you talk my kind of talk. Understood completely what you were saying I did your steps and was successful . Thanks for a great presentation
I don't know how much u have helped me.. 🙏🙏 thanks for this awesome trick 😍😍
Thank you so much! I perfectly works. I’ve burned the windows iso into a ssd 2242 connected by usb using and adapter and now it work perfectly fine on my laptop!
Nice video tutorial. Just want to ask if i installed fresh OS on external sdd and want to replace my existing hdd, do you i need to re-install all the necessary drivers for my laptop? Bluetooth, wifi, etc.
The people that dislike this video are computer shops and those that want to charge for this info, LAMES! Thank you sir excellent tutorial!! Thumbs Up!!!!!
can you install this on one pc and use the external for another pc. MY laptop Sata ports are broken and it wont detect any hhd.
Nice tutorial, worked for me. First time build so thanks for the help
Thank you for going into detail at the end I really appreciate it !!!!
Hey man. this video helped so much. it fixed my corrupt drive
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
thank you so much you helped me fix my laptop with a broken hard drive, i can just use a usb now thanks so much man!
ClanBlackscop yeah
Many thanks and blessings to you good sir. After battling with the orcs in bios I was able to follow your instructions and with great relief I was one step closer. You are the true King!
Great video! Would this work as an alternative method to install Windows 10 on a computer which I can’t boot from USB? I plan to remove the hard drive, use a laptop and a hard drive dock to install windows to it and replace the hard drive back to the computer.
Thanks for this video, i really like the way you talk :)
Most CZcams tutorials suck - I am glad your video is the exception. This still works as of 7/30/21. Thank you so much!
The one video that actually worked for me. Thank you so much!
does it still work? can i still install updates on it??
Thanks this helped a lot. Version 5 that I downloaded was slightly different but it still worked perfectly.
Thank you for your superb step by step guide, to the T, This was fantastic
Good job man, you are a legend :)
I paid 20 dollars for an Esurus subscription to transfer my OS to new SSD and it was still harder to use than the steps in this video, thank you.
Even now, this video has helped me get into my Razer blade 14 (2014) and you now have an extra sub! Thanks again!!