How to Run Windows From a USB Drive (Win 10 or 11)

[@GeekIWG]

TIP: Change your user agent to appear to be something other than Windows, such as Linux, then Microsoft's website will give you the option to download a Windows 10 ISO directly. It's faster than using the media creator tool.

[@ThioJoe]

Hm good to know

[@TBA_5854]

I used to get that link in Android and share to pc and download it on pc

[@JustA.Person]

You don't even need an extension for that, you can just go to inspect element and click the button where you can simulate a phone screen. That changes the user agent and you get direct download links

[@samsg]

Hmm

[@skorpion1298]

@@mickael9 big brain time

[@snarkykat]

This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a long time! Thanks Joe!

[@nielsdegroot9138]

From the Rufus FAQ: You should no longer have to disable Secure Boot if you use Rufus 3.17 or later, as the UEFI:NTFS bootloaders being used by these versions are Secure Boot signed.

[@NotJacobX]

I still can't see the USB on my boot menu, though... and i use the latest Rufus 3.21

[@أحمدالسيدعمر-ل8ح]

​@@NotJacobXTry Delyte and one more install program... or chek ... in rufs setup

[@lightningsam8345]

It’s remarkable how a channel has transformed from posting SPAM videos for entertainment to super cybersecurity and useful videos! Great job, ThioJoe!

[@bassam_salim]

It took me a while to trust him

[@IbbiAhmed]

everytime i get a recommendation of his vid, this is exactly what goes through my mind

[@Qwerty-uiop]

First impressions are last impressions 😔

[@joen4287]

@@bassam_salim lmaoooo I remember watching his video and trying to download ram and also trying to increase my internet speed 🤣

[@thedrbat9572]

@@bassam_salim i still never use his videos for a tutorial on something, ik he probably doesnt fool people anymore but hes caused damages to enough people for me not to trust him at all. And if your wondering which video i fell for, it was the "how to make your phone charge faster"

[@prestonlaptops]

One of the best sets of videos I've seen relating to all kinds of computer problems. Makes a change to watch someone who actually seems to know what they are talking about.

[@nogoat]

Here's a piece of advice. DO NOT DO THIS ON USB 2.0 It took a literal day to create it for me on USB 2.0

[@ThioJoe]

Yep i’d believe it

[@Humziish]

I tryed years ago.. USB 2.0 is much too slow.

[@ryanrunangnaff2868]

yeah USB 2.0 is very slow but it still works. Depends on what you use it for I guess. I am using my WTG thumb drive for Chia XCH cold wallet.

[@PAKTC]

patience is a virtue with USB 2.0

[@Fafr]

If only this video was released before I tried using Rufus, now my USB 2.0 is bricked because I stopped the error checking thing

[@yyperi]

This is very useful for testing memory overclocks. It's easy to corrupt your OS install if the RAM isn't 100% stable.

[@mattelder1971]

Rufus has a feature built in to download the Windows ISO. It does this directly from the Microsoft servers, so it would save you a step and you still end up with the same file.

[@emronglass]

how do we bump this comment ^^^ to the top??

[@zeenxdownz]

​@@emronglass like it

[@randydrew66]

Perfect video, been working on this all day when my c drive got corrupted! Thank you for showing the entire setup!

[@khalidyt4173]

Life saver bro fr . Some programs and games doesn’t work correctly or doesn’t work at all in my windows 11 bc my pc config is not supported (valorant for example needs TPM 2.0 in windows 11 or it doesn’t start ). I watched your video and put windows 10 on usb so i can run the programs that doesn’t work on my windows 11

[@sa7tita252]

@@khalidyt4173 same problem I had valorant not running on windows 11 , so an update miss up my pc and I'm trying to fix it and return to windows 10 is more better

[@bloksdev]

​​@@khalidyt4173 Bro use virtual box

[@herewegoagain113]

I have rufus and I have windows iso, but I was unable to just do it until I saw this video where you clicked on the downward arrow menu and you choose ''Windows to Go". That does it. Thank you.

[@mahdimossavi8868]

Hey so which one should I click? Windows to go or standard windows installation?

[@faugetentertain]

@@mahdimossavi8868 windows to go

[@alternatedenz]

@@mahdimossavi8868 Bro what do you think why is it called windows to go

[@RageTasticc]

If you are downloading windows 10, you can do CTRL+Shift+i and hit the button that looks like a tablet and phone. Then refresh the page and then close the dev tools. This will enable direct download because it thinks you’re on a different on a device.

[@emronglass]

@ThioJoe Can we somehow pin these comments to the top?!

[@MooneLightEntertainment]

*Can you believe that I entered a search query for this exact topic with the name Thiojoe a couple of hours earlier? I even included Rufus in the search query* Feels like providence!

[@Veeriah.Karupaiah]

ThioJoe is a literal livesaver. Thank you. I lost my boot device for Windows 11 yesterday and this helped me.

[@rafj75]

Just for everyone to know , it took me 12hours to make that bootable usb with rufus not 5 minute or an hour.. if you see it as if it froze just leave it and come back every hour to check on it's progress.. HANG IN THERE. 😄

[@nickm9102]

Were you using a 3.0 drive or better? I threw hiren's on a few 2.0 drives and it did ok but that isn't quite windows. I think mine will be the 2-2.5 hour mark when it gets done.

[@E_2the_J]

If your using BIOS you need to change the partition scheme to 'MBR' and the target system to 'BIOS or UEFI'

[@derpderpinson8208]

thanks, i was just going after what this moron said in the video and wasted like 1.5 hours

[@nikil213]

How can i do that

[@E_2the_J]

@@nikil213 in the video at 3:17 you can see the partition scheme is set to 'GPT' by default. just click on that and in the menu change it to 'MBR'. the target system right next to it should be set to 'BIOS or UEFI' instead of 'UEFI (non CSM)'

[@SaadJeeTabassam]

​@@nikil213 You can find the Partition style of your computer by going to the "Disk Manager". You can check my "Windows 10 Bootable USB" tutorial if you need more guidance.

[@y3eMAN]

Thanks a ton for this video! Needed to recover photos from my computer that wasn't booting, and this method helped me access my files on drive that wasn't booting windows.

[@ViralWatchMedia]

this saved my old laptop from becoming landfill, the hard drive connector inside stopped reading drives so now my laptop runs Windows 10 from a small usb drive and honestly it works great, its good for my work and youtube. I had no clue it was this easy. thanks

[@blessingsjoelssen2499]

You're a freakin hero Bru! I've had difficulties installing Windows 10 to an 80s windows Xp machine (floppy disk time)Love from South Africa!

[@anon_y_mousse]

This is awesome. I had a friend a long time back who made a live CD for Win98 and I've always wondered how he did it. Looks like Microsoft may finally be embracing the live CD and everyone can do it now. Though, I'd still like to make a proper Win98 live CD. If anyone is wondering why, it's because I've got a lot of old computers that wouldn't be capable of running anything more recent.

[@writerconsidered]

Don't you need a floppy file to install before you can install 98? I know that's how it was back in the day.

[@anon_y_mousse]

@@writerconsidered It just needs to be able to boot itself. I have a Win98 install disc that can boot, and it goes into a dos prompt allowing you to type `setup`, but I'd want it to run Windows directly instead of just providing the setup tool. I also have a really old copy of Knoppix, and that always worked for me, but Linux is just super easy anyway. It'd be the cool factor more than anything.

[@MadamBork]

HOLY CRAP, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! YOU JUST SAVED SO MANY FILES THAT WERE IMPORTANT TO ME, YOU'RE A LIFE SAVER!!!!

[@MaskedTitan999]

Is this USB Persistent ? will everything be saved when i run the windows again from the usb ? Also Is it necessary to Disable Secure Boot ?

[@michaelmudendah8854]

You're my favorite tech teacher because your tutorials are easy to follow. Michael from Zambia

[@PhiPan]

(for people who want to permanently use an external SSD as their main boot drive) I recently found out about how you can tweak the registry to make the pc think it's not a windows to go installation if you want to receive major updates without making a fresh install. 1. Run regedit.exe from the USB drive 2. Navigate to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control" 3. Change the value "PortableOperatingSystem" from 1 to 0

[@xrafter]

Using an external SSD will be significantly slower than internal SSDs. The reason is, USB connector will bottle neck the drive. So you need a usb 10 gbit connection. Usb 5 gbit should be enough

[@yacinebenaissa9838]

Tumbs up for the video. I was a little bit scepticle since i come form the IT prank era of theo joe but this was actually helpful. Thank you

[@ezmoney1985]

This video is the best i was tryna do this process for 2days and i was doing it wrong pc wudent troubleshoot or reset.. i cudnt get pass auto pc repair and diagnosis but after watching this it reallly worked

[@rae0521]

Wanting to do things such as setting up a PC to boot from a USB or DVD is SUCH A BLOODY HASSLE. I don't know whether it's Microsoft or the PC manufacturers, or both, but they all should be locked in a room and not allowed out until they SIMPLIFY this stuff so the average user can SUCCESSFULLY do it. They need to build a program that will ask a few questions regarding what the user wants to accomplish, and THEN DO IT. None of this fiddling around hitting the Esc or F10 quickly after power on and then wandering around in a MINEFIELD of little boxes, any one of which could easily disable the PC from ever booting again. That is RIDICULOUS! I've spend hours fooling around with an HP Probook 6475b and so far it will not boot from either a bootable DVD or bootable USB flash drive.

[@pyp2205]

Awesome! I've been wanting to do this for a while.

[@GamingDog20]

Hi Joe, I remember years ago when I was a bit inexperienced with computers. I remember trying to reinstall windows but the"copying files" would always stop at certain percentage and after a bit of time it would error me all the time. Hours and hours of research what the problem could be, doing rufus over again, downloading other iso, nothing helped. In the end, bought a new usb and that was it, apparently the old usb was faulty 🙂

[@Techknowverse]

you should have used ez2boot.

[@garavonhoiwkenzoiber]

it was probably a fake usb, like a 4 gig that claimed to be an 8 gig

[@bramovsk]

Hey man thanks a lot. I was really overwheld and confused but now it all makes sense. Thank you.

[@DivyanshuLohani]

You can actually download the iso directly just load the download page in a small window then it will give options for 32 bit and 64bit download

[@philipdan9461]

Win 10 or 11?

[@DivyanshuLohani]

@@philipdan9461 Both but for win 11 only 64bit

[@Kenfin7]

The samsung usb thumb drive you showed looked really cool!

[@semiblade]

This is actually pretty useful, for example: if you wanna install a new/different os to your main hard drive, you should set this up in case you need some quick access to Windows for a certain program/programs.

[@animegamer3336]

HBCD PE , would be better for that purpose TBH

[@luhgarlicbread]

@@animegamer3336 Not for playing Windows games but, at that point you might as well dual boot

[@Im_DJ]

Tbh , the temperatures of the pendrive reaches like 55+(plastic) degrees 60+(metal) , I have used linux off of a pendrive my personal experience, its less snappy than ssd but better than hard drive. For me temperatures are a big no no

[@martinbilis8875]

Hey, I Love your Videos! Keep up the Good Work!

[@edison700]

Thanks for this. This was way easier than the way i did this. I did this by using a spare computer and empty sata hdd. Running the first part of the installation where you select the drive you want to install and it starts copying the windows image to the drive. Once I got the your computer will restart in 10 seconds I turned off the computer, removed the drive and cloned it to a USB drive, and then booted off the usb and finished the setup. edit: I guess the way i did it, windows treated it like a normal installation and windows would feature update just fine

[@michaelstaton1999]

I think secure boot might have been what i was missing thanks Joe.

[@truongkhoaui]

This is exactly what I want when I don't have any operating system on my machine. Thank you Joe.

[@prowler1567]

This could have possible useful purposes of which I haven't thought of yet. Thanks Joe.

[@littlelobsters3850]

if your on an ROG motherboard with ROG BIOS, you disable secure boot by going into bios, finding secure boot options, then at the 'Os Type' option, select 'Other OS' and you should be good. do your research tho!

[@MohammedHK876]

Nice Keep It Up I Already Know This But For The Begginers It's Really Good

[@jareddeocampo4625]

In 3:28, im planning to activate my windows can i still choose windows to go?

[@33TVWVL]

OMG thanks for the tutorial!! Yesterday my laptop immediately went to BIOS after turning it on, I was completely clueless and thought it was damaged for good. Then tried to research all these stuffs. Learn a lot from both the video and the comments (especially the one tip about changing the user agent)! One thing though, I only reached the downloading step, then put both Rufus and ISO in my USB. Couldn't proceed with the steps shown in the tutorial (ran rufus, did as shown but couldn't hit the *Start* button). I kinda gave up and just inserted the USB in the laptop and turned it on and it just started up like normal??? Still don't know what went wrong with it, so if anyone has any idea, I'd highly appreciate some new techy knowledge 😭🙏 (Before this, my laptop screen had completely turned black after start-up. Watched another video about plugging out the battery, discharging it,etc. Screen turned on but stayed in BIOS. I disabled both *Security Boot* and *Fast Boot* , then enabled *Launch CSM* . Nothing happened until i used the USB (with both Rufus and ISO newly downloaded, untouched). My laptop works just fine now, no data loss whatsoever. It felt like a fever dream 😭🙏

[@vwvwvwvwvwvwvwvwvwvw9]

Yo I'm early! Glad I have all notifications on. Also, nice. Thanks for the educational video!

[@maritoguionyo]

1:48 you can download iso by using developer options and doing the tablet view thing

[@naxel37]

The most amazing thing about this video is the fact that you have an LG computer!!!

[@BIGJ_47]

I did this on my usb stick and it worked well, it was just quite slow tho because the stick was 32GB I only recommend doing this on an SSD or a usb device with 64GB or more. It is still possible with less storage though.

[@realcyphox5919]

bigger size doesnt mean better speed. you can have a cheapo 256GB stick thats still slow as f.... get something like sandisk extreme (pro)

[@minbcraft]

@@realcyphox5919 Even better, get any cheap but trustworthy m.2 nvme ssd, put it in an enclosure and it will run circles around any thumb drive.

[@frylock428]

how much disk space did you have left? I'm assuming 7 GB

[@BIGJ_47]

@@frylock428 Ye something like that but the main reason it was slow was because the usb drive was usb 2.0.

[@brandonrobinson9943]

Does this also work with windows 7 iso? I repair computers for work, and sometimes I have to work on older machines that aren't compatible with windows 10/11. Looking to use this as a diagnostic tool as well as a killdisk usb

[@LuckyRawat1356]

2:12 .... it took me 24 mins to do this part i wonder how long it will take to do it fully... people are saying one whole day meaning for me it might be a whole week

[@aaronaustrie]

Great vid man. I had to do that for a CS class I had awhile back so I consider this to be easy to do

[@RameshSeelochan]

I’ve had luck cloning an existing windows install to a usb external drive then being able to select that external drive in the bios boot menu. Works great with an ssd plugged into atleast a usb 3.0 or higher port. This install is interesting. Might give it a try.

[@marke9036]

*I did the same thing did not work does not know why do you know why? (I even changed the putting order to booting from the USB first, it will just go to booting from the C drive as usual; after I disable C drive it will just give me blue screen and say internal drive was not found)*

[@RameshSeelochan]

@@marke9036 might need to check your BIOS. if your system is set to UEFI and the external drive was pulled from a system that was set up in Legacy mode it might not work. I believe this applies to vice versa. I've had similar issues and a combination of boot settings and switching from RAID to AHCI worked

[@cholsreammos]

I clones my internal drive to an external and booting it on the exact same computer and it gave the "inaccessible boot drive" when i tried with bot macrium and clonezilla so im not sure whats going on The leading thing people are saying is you cant boot regular windows from a usb drive . . . But here hes using regular windows? Idk its annoying af

[@RameshSeelochan]

@@cholsreammos i've had this issue if I clone to an NVME drive and try to boot from that drive is the OS doesn't have a RAID driver. how are you cloning? from within windows or using a 3rd party tool preboot?

[@cholsreammos]

@@RameshSeelochan im also cloning to an nvme I tried using macrium reflect and clonezilla

[@MikeODonnell]

You are my hero for all the stuff i know i should be able to do but cant remember exactly how to do it :) Making a NVME bootable external drive now.

[@GanjaGuerillas]

So glad that I found your video. My windows 11 crashed and went into a boot loop and and all the available options to repair it wouldn't work other than to reformat back to windows10 but I had lots of data that needed recovered. Also never again will I do an upgrade to windows11👎

[@tonydanza6406]

Dude ! You are the Man ! I was looking for something like this you explain it very easy ! thank you !

[@countzero1136]

You don't need the windows 10 install tool if you download the iso on a non-Windows computer - if you access the page with Mac or Linux you get a direct iso download link just like with windows 11

[@emronglass]

Good look

[@Fifasher2K]

User agent switcher goes brrr

[@TheSamdroidOnline]

Great video. Just yesterday I was wondering how to do this. Great timing. 😀

[@The-X-Target]

Excellent content as always.

[@wisdombright9821]

I have a Surface Pro 6 with a dead SSD, booting from USB is the only way to use it again so thank you for making this as easy as possible. I Will buy a 2230 M.2 ssd for portability and speed instead of using a hard drive.

[@MrDeceptacon88]

Hi does this install fresh windows? Is it possible to just boot into my current computer coz i have tons of files that i need to save first?? Getting the black screen of death and when i try to hit the F1 key to get into the menu, the laptop shuts off :(((

[@userr0880]

When you install w11,you will get 2 options: 1. delete all files and create a new system 2. don't touch my files just update system I hope this was useful for you🥰🤝🏼

[@MrDeceptacon88]

@userr0880 thx..but is it the same for wi dows 10?

[@userr0880]

@@MrDeceptacon88 Oh, I think it's the same. But again, I recommend you research just to be sure :)

[@andrejbartulin]

I would like Rufus can be compatible with macOS and GNU/Linux

[@powercell6502]

I remember being so mad at you when I was like 10 because I couldn't actually run ps5 games on my Xbox 360 😂. Anyways, thanks for the help and nice video.

[@rolandohamilton1682]

does it disable the wifi adapter on the system because i cant get any wifi and my wifi adapter is working fine its just the port on my motherboard for ssd drive is damaged thats why am doing it this way

[@TM-up4is]

Put the LAN

[@rolandohamilton1682]

@@TM-up4is it's a Lenovo IdeaPad 3 it doesn't have Ethernet port unfortunately

[@86config]

Works well for creating a Windows 10 install for a mac, creat it on PC, plug into Mac using Thunderbolt or USB3. Its by and far the easiest way to run Windows on Mac.

[@Goosboi]

btw I cant get this to work it keeps on coming up with like reinstall the macos version

[@86config]

@@Goosboi Thats strange, what drive are you installing to ?

[@86config]

@@Goosboi I used my PC to install windows 10 to a LaCie Rugged Thunderbolt SSD drive using USB3 ( Drive has facilities for USB3 and Thunderbolt 1/2 ). On my Late 2013 iMac ( with opencore boot selector ) I plug it in using its captive Thunderbolt cable, boot the machine, opencore boot selector presents the option of Monterey or Windows 10. Initially, only ethernet was working on the iMac, A combination of windows update and Brigardier solved my driver issues.

[@Goosboi]

@@86config im using a portable windows usb like the video said im im trying to use it on the latest kind of intel imac and i have tried all the fixes that i can find for a security t2 chip

[@86config]

@@Goosboi Its should be as simple as creating the portable Windows 10 USB Drive, booting it ( choosing which OS to boot using the Option key on the macs keyboard, creating your account and then once in Windows 10 on the Mac, downloading the Bootcamp support software for that Mac using Brigadier, then installing it. Any support software for the T2 chip should be in the Bootcamp driver package for your mac.

[@bennguyen1313]

Any idea if there's an Android tablet that can boot from a USB Windows 'Live' install? Or will Windows 10 have issues with the ARM processor (ex. Qualcomm Snapdragon 870) or driver/peripherals? If not a tablet that has HDMI input would be nice.. like the 'Lenovo Yoga Pad Pro' / 'Lenovo Yoga Tab 13'

[@TrendFusionNetwork]

Great tutorial 👍

[@Rufinoman]

I'm going to try this on a customer's HP Stream where the internal eMMC drive has failed and cannot be replaced. Either a pen drive or and SD card. Great video, thanks.

[@PierreKerbage]

Excellent! Thank you for the video and the content!

[@RD-wn9iw]

When I launch windows 8.1 it comes up as install. If I click this will I wipe the internal hard drive of Linux? I only want it on the USB.

[@iamfreeareyou681]

I want to make a bootable iso, and all I can find is crap to install from iso and to boot from USB, but there are existing bootable Windows isos that run Windows from a CD, how do I make one of them?

[@addo9697]

sorry iam not an exper but i was asking, cant you use the win media creation tool to directly make a boot usb, when you get to choose beteen creating a flash drive or downloading the iso?

[@prestonlaptops]

No. If you use the tool it will create intallation media not an operating system on the usb.

[@addo9697]

@@prestonlaptops thank you very much, i didn't realize i was watching a how to make a bootable usb, i needed a Windows installation usb. I resolved by selecting "normal installation" instead of Windows to go

[@charliedflea]

Hi, I replaced my internall hdd woth a new ssd (win 11), my old hdd (win 8.1). My question, is it possible to boot my old hdd win 8.1 from usb (i have a usb caddie for it) without formating so i can keep all the files and installed software and user settings? Thanks in advance

[@jaytomheldman5170]

I did not realize I had to have Rufus program (and the downloaded Windows ISO) on a different drive from the drive to which I was installing windows operating system! Rufus and the Windows ISO are on the D drive, so I can put Windows on E drive.

[@prestonlaptops]

Rufus will wipe everything, including itself, from the destination drive so you need to be running it from a different drive. It's just the same as it not being possible to format your current Windows partition when you are running Windows from it.

[@mikecox-i6u]

Can "Windows to go" bypass the security and admin priviledges of the internal hard drive (e.g adding, removing and installing files in it) or does admin privileges make the internal drive (D:drive) a read only?

[@LuckyFin2008]

Thank you. Worked like a charm.

[@theitacademy3145]

Love your channel. Thanks for sharing.

[@melneldell2187]

I have a question, my Dell Inspiron 15-3567 doesn't want to boot because "bootx64" cant find it. and automatically just boots up to SupportOS Diagnostics. I have reformatted it using rufus many times now, but it still wont boot. I turned on legacy boot but the same thing happens. On my other USB drive (ventoy), boots up normally. Why is that?

[@AshtonGodbout]

man used to troll so hard back in the day that I always hesitate to watch his videos

[@UNICORNSF3ProgameplayProRACER]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@K.B98]

Question: When creating installation media for Windows 10, why not just installing it onto USB rather than getting ISO file and burning it on via Rufus? Are both options equally viable, or is the latter a better method?

[@singletona082]

Considering there are a few things I want to do that NEED windows for some gods aweful reason? I'm willing to take the performance hit for the sake of having a backup windows install on hand.

[@Saturn-OS]

I guess this is better than duel booting cause its annoying when I need to do stuff on windows.

[@jdjdjshahahjqjqopwlska]

true

[@CesareVesdani]

Please make a video tutorial on how set any USB flash drive read-only like a CD-ROM disk.

[@LetrixAR]

You can boot a Windows virtual disk with Ventoy. Just create a VM, install Windows on it and copy the disk image to your Ventoy drive and install the winboot plugin for it. Don't know how it handles updates.

[@tinman3000]

Old Toshiba Satellite laptop which has no Secure Boot option (I looked it up). Any other options? I'm in infinite auto repair... can't boot into safe mode and can't boot from USB (verified to work on another PC). Am I totally screwed?

[@kocakabakh]

I think your best option is go to computer repair place and ask them to copy your files to an other driver :D

[@tinman3000]

@@kocakabakh I actually got it to work... it was a mix of two solutions. Half was from this video and half from another one. Basically I got really lucky!

[@todorstojkovgaming]

I installed Windows 8.1 on my 32GB USB drive and it just bluescreens when i try to boot from it even with secure boot off.

[@cyrilsli]

is there a way to inject drivers into the drive (like how WinToUSB by Hasleo can?)

[@grayisgood]

Download them like normal? It's like a normal windows installation.

[@alrodin2317]

I do not get the "Windows to Go" option in the version of Rufus you are using.

[@DcfcftgrfrFstefdff]

your version of rufus is outdated or you cant make a windows to go partition

[@kenzie_abqarys]

Hi Thio, in 1:02 I notice that your downloads are at the top, how did you enable that in chrome?

[@jtiservice6618]

Very good presentation man! Thank you! Brazilian Team

[@curzzcurlex7771]

Thanks for the tips bro

[@gilbrener8395]

Thanks! I tried to make a USB and it didn’t work so you can just imagine my happiness when it worked!

[@ScrambledEggLover911]

did you use windows to go= because mine always fail to install onto te usb

[@vortex3738]

hey i like that you dont do fake vidoes anymore but 12 year old me really believed I could download more ram

[@krishnamanohar1718]

Can we use the usb if we have used it for installing the windows 10 for any other use?

[@yonotanbeer8448]

if you do it for the sake of showing off - thats cool, but besides that, or big registry or group policy changes. you'd better off saving all your files on a usb with tons of portable software. the windows 10 installation files are 20 gb at least! and the loading speed of the best flash drive today are no more than 400 mb/s. which is enough, but for some processes that require more ram and speed, might be too slow... furthermore, you might have to reinstall the drivers due to cpu and hardware compatibility in each computer you stumble upon.

[@RexMan04]

I wish this video was released 1 day earlier. I just did this after trying for an hour in order to get the files off of my old laptop that wasn't encrypted.

[@jenevans1675]

Question, I have a laptop. I completely wiped the operating system on it has a USB drive no CD drive I have an OEM 11 Pro cd with key I have a Lennox rent a van to with cd drive Can I make a bootable USB install using a Linux operating system? Or I can buy a portable cd drive to plug-in. But will a brand new portable CD drive even be able to do that because there’s no OS on the laptop how to download the drivers I need. Help me !! I have a USB for my iPhone that’s iPhone one side USB on the other side. I’m not a Ubuntu expert- just average basic skills nothing fancy.

[@dan2800]

I've used to run windows 10 from external SSD (made with cracked version of wintogo) in school because the boot priority had main priority to boot from external it was fun

[@I-am-god-f4y]

it is saying my usb drive needs to have the "fixed" attribute set

[@DoubsGaming]

Hey ThioJoe, It's my quest to have one USB that can do everything and so far I have almost got there. My question is the any way to dual-boot Ventoy and windows on one USB drive. I am not sure if Ventoy is linux based but I feel like it might be easier if it was. Otherwise with ventoy there is live linux ISO's. So if it's possible then I could have linux, windows and anything else I would need on one USB. Alternatively but probably not possible, maybe there is a way to turn windows into a live ISO. If so then it also could just be stored on Ventoy.

[@pessoaanonima6345]

It may work if you install Windows to Go in a MBR drive, then reduce the partition size and create other partition. Then, in Windows to Go, install ventoy on the partition and set up EasyBCD to create a boot entry to that. Use MBR as the BCD can't boot other OS on GPT. I don't know if it works, but you can try it.

[@DoubsGaming]

@@pessoaanonima6345 I am not sure what you mean about EasyBCD, if you can tell me more. Other then that I did try at one point to shrink the partition and install ventoy previously. If I remember correctly ventoy had issues as it wasn't "Officially supported".

[@pessoaanonima6345]

@@DoubsGaming BCD is the default bootloader since windows vista. If Windows to Go works in the same way as the normal one, it should also use that. EasyBCD is just a program which makes it easier to configure it, but you can also use the cmd. I don't know if ventoy supports it.

[@DoubsGaming]

@@pessoaanonima6345 good to know.👍I will take a look.

[@4Vanyek]

Well you can do that if you install Windows on a virtual drive (.vhd or .vmdk file), then copy it to usb and boot from it in Ventoy

[@agratefulheart512]

Thank you for sharing this info.

[@daniyalmoazzam9554]

Are you aware of any GPU limitations via this method? Can I download a game and run it off the SSD windows, would that be possible or any protentional lag?

[@Ballacka69]

Maybe...?

[@grayisgood]

I'm sure you can use it just like any other windows installation in terms of downloading and running any software. But running through a usb port is going to slow it down, it has to. Depends on your needs, you can try and see if it works for you.