thank you. subscribed not because I like you or your channel, but because you helped me do something I was looking to do for almost an year, but to no luck. blessings!
You sir are a life saver! My daughters hard drive died and she ordered a new one. Couldn't get windows to upload until watching this. Thank you so much and I sub'd!
I am very sorry for your daugter, hard disk drives are very fragile and must be replaced by ssd if you cant handle them. i also broke a lot of drives and i usderstand the pain of loosing all your files , bye
Omg this saved my life! Boyfriend ordered a PC, excited to play and I thought we had USB stick somewhere but we didnt. Now he didnt have to waste a night 😊 thanks so much
Omg… this was a lifesaver!!! I tried for two days to clone my HDD to USB SSD and didn’t realize windows wouldn’t boot from it. I was able to load and boot windows using this method and my product key transferred automatically. It stinks that I now have to transfer the rest of the data manually, but it’s worth it to have the boot up speed and read and write speed of USB SSD over USB 3.1 over my old internal HDD.
All the cloning software I tried did not transfer over the mobile windows ISO file in order to boot correctly. Cloning will just clone your current windows version which won’t boot correctly. If you follow the exact steps laid out in this video, it will work for you.
Today I got a new SSD NVMe, but ran into a problem cause my mother board doesn't have a second m.2 port. You happen to be using the same portable I'm using to do this. Thank you for making this video. I was so lost.
They updated the software; using this tool, you must use Windows To Go USB setting, and use VHD installation mode for the maximum amount of space possible.
I spent the better part of my Saturday trying to get windows 11 to boot from an external drive only for it to tell me time and time again that it can't be installed to a USB device. I give up.
Thanks for this. I've been messing around with a 15 year old laptop for about a month now because the SSD has a proprietary interface. The user doesn't want to spend too much money on it, understandably. But I'm so done with it, just gonna run it off an external SSD.
Thank you, I just discovered your channel and this tip alone was worth subscribing. The only tip that I really needed was the "win-to-use" tool. Again, thanks and God bless
Just a note...MBR is the most common format and is compatible with BIOS systems and has been used on 64-bit Windows installs forever. GPT is a newer type that works with UEFI systems. Also with GPT, users can create up to 128 partitions if they wanted to in which MBR cannot
GPT is not needed for 64-bit OS. GPT is required to boot in UEFI Secure Boot mode. Can't boot from an MBR drive in Secure Boot Mode, only GPT. If not a boot drive, it doesn't matter.
my 9 year old samsung harddrive is about to take a poop and i got that exact same samsung ssd so thank you so much life saver mang now im not worried about being out of commision for the dark and darker playtest#4
Thank you this seems so easy to do, I randomly got the blue screen on Monday when my pc has been fine for 2yrs on 10hrs a day daily use, and I spent litterly all of this week trying every single trouble shooting steps going, also backwards and forwards with microsoft they tried reinstalling windows on the actailly pc and that didn't work tried it twice second time it failed. I avoided doing this USB method just purely because I didn't have a USB, now if Microsoft told me I could use my plug in external hard drive I could of had thus fixed days ago, thank goodness for your video cause the rest of the videos I had watched made it really complicated when clearly it didn't need to be, so like and subbed hopefully by the the morning cause am gonna be up all night doing it I will finally have working pc again with no blue screens or random restarts 😊
DO NOT TRUST that Win to USB thing. The UI has been updated since this video was published and it no longer tells you that it completely wipes whatever drive you're trying to install on before you proceed. On a completely unrelated note, any helpful tips for file recovery?
Instead of installing programs on to new bootable external windows 10 ssd like office, how can I access the programs, files, etc on the old C drive that is internal in the pc?
I have the same question. I installed win 10 on new SSD drive, but after I logged from that drive - I lost access to all programs installed on hard drive, even from disk management I can't find existing hard drive. No Good :-(
If you go to your program location and copy every file including the .exe and then execute from drive(user) you shall be able to run the program. You'll just have to delete the old files so you don't keep doubles!
Im getting the error "Windows cannot be installed to the disk. Setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks connected through a USB or IEEE 1394 port." when booting from the ssd...
Thank you for this amazing tutorial. I would like to know, is it possible to partition the SSD drive so that if i boot my Steam Deck normally from Linux, i can boot my Steam games on an SSD partition other than the Windows partition ?
Cool! I found out my college let's you rent laptops from the library but it's really sandboxed and annoying. I'm going to try this in order to boot a separate OS.
Thanks! Having to use my external ssd as my main drive because my ssd either offed itself when I fell asleep under my desk after work or I may have possibly wiped the entire thing windows included in my sleep for some unknown reason… Either way you saved the day!
*"so obviously this is a lower end pc!"* *proceeds to show a 16 gb memory, 4 ghz CPU absolute gaming beast pc* *meanwhile me in my 1.50 ghz CPU, 4 gb memory running at 160 ping and 20 fps thinking i have an at the very least average pc*
Hopefully youll read me. If i boot it from an external drive, will i be able to open the ssd inside the laptop as another drive? I mean, "C:" where windows is installed would be the external drive and the internal SSD would appear as a "D", just like a second hard drive on a cpu? thanks if anyone can help me
All this seems quite informative but I’m wondering if I could just use a program like macrium to clone my current windows install on my main computer onto an external drive and then plug it into the usbc or thunderbolt port on my laptop?
Why is it that it tells me to reboot and select a proper boot device. I know that I have it to boot in legacy mode because that’s the only way to get the portable ssd to show up in the boot menu
@@CoilWhine okay so I got it to work on a Msi motherboard but I now can not get it to work on this asus motherboard. I don’t know what setting fixed the msi one but idk about this one
Thanks, I am going to be cloning a family members computer they run win7 on 4gb ram very slow pc, I am building her a pc with 16gb ram, 3200g not top of the line but fast enough for her never to worry about lagging while on Facebook etc (elderly lady), and since the drive is coming early with enclosure I plan to clone her drive, update etc from hdd to m.2 and wanted to see how to get it to boot, thanks again!
Any chance you could do a similar step-by-step tutorial for Windows XP ? There's a mess on youtube in regards to that -- too often people mis-titleing their videos, with said videos just ending up being XP install to a PC tutorials (from an external source) . A lot of older programs / games just won't run on anything except XP , and having a plug-n-play Win XP from an external source would be really great ! Thanks .
Hello.... Thank you very much for this excellent and right to the point video. I want to ask you something that i want to do: I have an Samsung nvme ssd already installed to my pc (inside, to motherboard) with windows 10 and few programs.... My question is: Can i take this ssd from inside motherboard, put it in an external enclosure with usb 3 gen 2 type c connection and make my pc boot from this without loose the installation and programs? In other words to move the current inner ssd outside and have the same win 10 installation without reformation? Thanks a lot in advance....
@@guvenersoysal Another thing that concerns me is that even though we manage to do it work, the speed of the SSD will not be as fast as inside due to type c connection limitations....🤔🤔🤔
Thanks man, I fried the shit out of my old harddrive and tried to clone my windows onto my ssd but it didn't work. This looks like its gonna be perfect
Hey what about the content of my main hdd in which windows was previously installed, will it still be there after changing the boot drive ? Also I own a laptop and windows is pre-installed why will I need to buy windows again only to get it run on my ssd instead of hdd
My problem My laptop frigd m.2 so i only can boot by usb c, Wat is the fastest way to be able to just work basic thinks like photoshop school work ec? And ohw yhea dont buy a dell xps 15 9500 i9-10885H it will burn your m.2 in 3 years and no warrenty 😭
This might have been a better tool 2 years ago but it is horrible now. It is glitchy and the on-screen prompts and insturctions are confusing. I have yet to get it to do what you did in the video. Maybe redo this video with the updated version of this software?
thanks for the video and info... but let me refresh the need... most people will want to find a way to extract old laptop hdd or ssd and run it in the new one through USB or C port... is it possible?
Did anyone have some weird "side effects" after cloning an existing Windows installation to an external PCIe SSD with this tool? Like, Windows Sandbox not working, Windows Updates fail, missing WinRE partition, etc. Everything is 1:1 with my original Windows, and all I mentioned simply works there without any issue. I'm aware it's kinda hack-ish way to sector-by-sector disk cloning and issues along the way are to be expected, but I really want to understand why some things don't work after cloning. I tried many things to fix it and I'm still confused; mostly about Windows Updates failing.
So with this setup, I can use the drive to boot to different laptops? I only ask because I repair laptops, and one of my business clients (a computer repair shop) never includes the SSD. This creates issues when I want to test my repair and functionality, and this tutorial would save me a huge headache. Thank you for your time.
Good tutorial. I created this on an external ssd, only to find that the network/ethernet doesn't work when I boot to windows 10. (So I cannot install software there) 1: How do I get the right networking drivers for windows 10 while I still have network in Windows 11? 2: If I install drivers for networking (windows 10) will it mess up my networking when I boot back in to Windows 11? (I'm using an MSI ge66 laptop)
I have an interesting question. So i purchased a new computer (PC - Skytech Chronos 2, prebuilt) a few months ago and it comes with Windows 11 (which i despise). I have a laptop (Lenovo Legion y520), running windows 10 on an SSD drive. Can i use the laptop SSD in my new PC to run WIndows, and then just use the PC harddrive (NVMe SSD) as a second harddrive?
Not trying to siphon viewers away, but if, like me, you don't want to spend money to use windows 10 pro; please use an open source tool called Rufus. Follow the steps to download the windows 10 iso, start rufus, click the check box to allow usb hard drives then choose windows to go. Once you confirm it'll have you select if the version, windows 10 pro in my case.
Once I try to install windows and select the drive, gives me error: "Windows 10 setup does not support configuration of or installation to disks through a USB or IEEE 1394 port" I can't install windows on the drive. Why? I followed everything to a T.
i want to do it like this cause i have and issue with an 13 years old laptop with the hard the hard disk cable and i cant fine nowhere this cable !!!! so the only chance to keep it alive is only with external ssd
you think this would work better than an internal HDD? I have a working laptop I cant (due to policies) open that have an internal HDD and is slow as hell... I want to clone that disk to an external USB3 SSD and boot from there.. no gaming, just office stuff
My old laptop quit. So I pulled the ssd from it and I have it in enclosure. Trouble is that programs I need in the shop work on win10 but new computer has win11. Can I run those programs and files that were in my old computer on new one via usb without losing the programs?
Yip nice and clear thanx. One problem, you don't explain how external ssd/hdd must be formatted/partitioned. Following your instructions after running media creation, the iso to usb gives an error like 'no partition was found' or on a subsequent install it doesn't find an mbr section. My system is 64bit so I formatted mine with GPT setting. Please help.
Thanks for this, I plan on being able to boot windows on a T7 ssd. Also dumb question(I’m new to this) So if I boot to windows on the external SSD Can I download the games to that same SSD, or I have to install the game to a different SSD/HD?
this is normal i also had it. if windows looks laggy in the lo0ading screen, turn the ppc off and turn it baclk on and so on untill it becomes normal, this wont damage any data as the hard disk drive isnt very actuive during the first 2 secs of boot
After these steps i cannot get my pc to boot up at all. Its recognizes all SSD storage i have, including the new external one, but none of then will boot after i did the steps in the video
hey question? Can you do this process for a laptop from another pc ... for instance I have a laptop with a damaged hard drive soldered to the PCB and I'm trying to use a external HD to run it until I get a new laptop
I always have issue running Windows from external usb. Wud you Plz tell me why I can not remove my Internal hdd and use usb external hdd adapter and run windows? Thanks a lot
Can you BOOT an existing Windows installation using the Windows USB installer? In case you can't boot your Windows partition normally, can you use the Windows USB installer for that?
I've got a corrupt C drive on an HP AIO, & I'd like to use an M.2 PCIe (full install Win 10 OEM 256, removed when I upgraded to 512) to overwrite the AIO C drive.. any suggestions?
ive done this 3 times now and each time it works for the first hour, but by the time i go back to the internal ssd windows to look for something, i cant open the usb windows, it says system restore required, invalid boot etc
Oky I have a problem my dell latitude e6410 would not complete windows 10 installation so what could be the cause . I have checked the hdd health its 100% I used windows 10 on the pc never had a problem until recently And If i decided to use the external hdd that i followed ur Instructions and instead use it as an internal hdd would it work ?
If I were to create the installation from a Windows PC, would I be able to plug this into a MacBook and use windows on it? I'm thinking that the boot priority may be an issue since you can't really get into BIOS, but I'm not sure.
