How To Create A Portable Windows USB - Run Windows 10 Off A USB! 

I've been looking for a solution on the internet or RU-vid for 2 weeks, you're the only one who presents a real solution that really works. Thank you very much for this video. I love you. ❤

on the page for choosing BIOS you first had BIOS, then UEFI. But there was a 3rd option for both. Can you please explain that choice a little more? Thank you.

Worked perfectly, thank you VERY much!!

thank you for making our life easier, its appreciated

It works for me , Thanks!

Nice information man 🌷

thanks man, you really helped!

Thanks a lot man. I will buy an MSI GS65 stealth and I will buy it for like 1000€ less but without a Operating System. So u helped me a lot. Thx! :)

I keep getting the following error in WinToUSB: The free/trial version doesn't support installing/cloning Windows to a 4K sector disk. 🙁

7:37 @TheHowTechGuy123 Which one should I choose for my USB Flash Drive : Legacy, VHD or VHDX? And can I do this on my 16GB Flash Drive or not?

Thanks. Question. Would this copy windows into a new pc so i won't need to plug in the external drive to boot again?? THANKS.

it worked perfectly. 101% recommended!!!

When I go to boot option to choose boot from USB, I don’t get that, it shows too many boot paths and when I press the usb it opens more to choose which means files that are in the usb.. idk why

But what appens if when we choose the media to use we choose the USB flash drive?

So i run linux of my hard drive and i want to use windows 10 just in a usb not as my main os not on my hard drive so if i do this and then switch back to the main hard drive (not usb) will i be back on linux? Thank you!!

It was driving me crazy, I was trying to do this but kept getting some error about Enterprise Edition (which was different from the one you showed) even when I was trying to do Home Edition, then it hit me, my LAPTOP is running Enterprise Edition, copied the ISO and WinToUSB installer over to my desktop running 8.1 Home and have now started the process of creating the bootable flash drive

hi, may I know what the recommended flash drive size for doing this?

So my hard disk got broken i had fixed it by installing windows into a USB since there were crap ton of error while making it bootable and I transfered my iso to my hard drive and if I remove the pendrive while it restarts will I get a windows any idea

Thank you so much!

Awesome! however I cannot see internal hard drives or the builtin boot drive and all other drives and partitions? How can I access to the those drives and partitions?

Can i use this method for my computer that windows crashed? I want to do this method to copy all the files before formatting, is it possible?

Nice thanks for the info

best explained 🤝👍🏻👌👌

I am using enterprise mode with wintousb and i'm kinda stuck when i use mbr for bios and uefi it is always showing windows installation not sucessful . Can you please make a video for that . I subscribed to your channel.

I need this to test whether or not my ancient PC can handle Win10 but with USB2.0 speeds I think I won't be able to tell but I guess it's worth a shot, I've been wanting to try Win10 anyways.

what are the things to do after u install it to a external hard drive

I need help, not much after it started formatting the USB, WinToUSB caused an unknown problem, now I can't use the USB, it's not detected anymore and sometimes it gives error code 10 while other times it's giving error code 43, I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers several time without success among other things that didn't work, if you know how to fix this issue then please help.

can i use Windows 11 Iso like this. is it going to work? also I'm using 64 GB usb 3.0 Pen drive. i tried couple of times but its not working.

Why is it not working with a 8 gb pen drive. It says not enough space. The iso file is only 4.5 gb. Is not 8 gb enough?

I tried this with the exact same steps but my laptop is just boot looping or gives me a black screen or sometimes even an error about restarted unexpectedly at the booting screen. What can i do? I really need my laptop for online school cuz my hdd in the laptop broke plz fast

How will this handle the COA? Does windows complain about COA when plugged into another computer?

If I put this USB into a new computer, will my files save? Will my computer still boot normally if I have a different OS?

I have a question. Is this method works on mac? I am finding ways to run live windows 10 on my macbook..

does all the storage go to the usb to and not the hard drive?

Nice Wallpaper, pretty good tutorial.

I have a portable hard drive with important files on it. Will creating the boot media on that portable drive wipe it clean? Will I lose the other files currently on the portable drive if I use it to create boot media?

Can this work on server base software ?

After installing, how do you eject the hard drive safely? Do you just unplug it or follow the same process through boot again to get back?

Will this work for Windows server edition?

How about performance? Let's say I am installing windows 10 on an external ssd connected through usb interface, how are it's OS performance compared to windows 10 installed on an internal ssd connected directly to the sata interface. Specifically, on gaming an streaming tasks

i want windows10 live cd portable iso image, can i get it?

Once you have a bootable OS on the drive, can it still be used as a regular storage device? Or do you need to make a partition?

Very informative. I been using Puppy Linux live usb cause the hard drive on this laptop crashed --read only file system issues... But the wife goes bonkers not being able to work on a windows environment ... hence for peace of mind--mine, I will make use your tutorial. Question though: (I intend to use Windows 7 rather than 10 cause it is relatively stable now a days than the latter,) will the usb bootable come along with a with at least Word?

Did everything as you said, but after creating and plugging it in pc and booting from it it shows winload.exe error even thou it's a fresh installation

If you use an solid state drive with a usb adapter to install Windows on, will it run the same on the usb as if you ran the drive internally in the computer?

If you install new drivers or programs on the usb booted windows, will they stay next time you boot or they will be gone and windows will boot fresh every time?

One question: the USB has an IP of its own? Different from the "original" windows on host pc?

should i use mbr or gpt

Thanks alot!

Does This work like a portable linux (a second pc), or does it just Install windows on your computer and delete all data wich were on the pc?

can I do this on a chromebook?

I keep getting the "system cannot write to the specified device" message. Please help

is it possible to use it as system recovery

what about windows 7 you are saying?

Would this support Hardware Virtualization Technology? I'm trying to install a virtual Android emulator on it.

question : why not select the option "USD Flash Drive" at 3:00 ? What does ISO provide that USB flash doesn't give ? Thanks in advance !

When I boot to my external hard drive, it comes up with a blue screen saying something like "Your PC/Device needs to be repaired" and there is a file missing called "\\Windows\system32\winload.efi" What should I do, and how do I fix it? Thanks!

After installing window can i use this external hard drive attach to any computer or laptop????plz reply

Yooooo appreciate it frr bro you saved my ass

Can I use the windows on a pendrive on my Sony Bravia television, to work like a PC

does the media creation tool give you the newest version of windows

I've ran into a problem my pc can only boot of the drive if i take the external drive out the pc wont boot, it only boots wehn the external hard drive is in the pc. any solutions? The reason why i installed windows on the ex hard driv was because my pc had a problem with booting up it would say a message like windows failesd to start a recent software or hardware change might be the cause then it gave me three steps to follow insert windows installation disk restart the pc select language then choose repair my pc. however I just ended up fllowing this viodeo and istalling windows 10 there was no repair my pc or anything like that. So is there anyway to run windows without using the ex hard drive. Hope to hera from you soon and sorry for the long explanation.

I have some questions, hope u answer me. I usually divide my laptop internal ssd drive into two parts: C (for OS) and D (for my files). Can I do the same with the portable windows on my external ssd drive? Also if I plug into another computer can I use the ssd drive just as a normal external drive and accessing my files without booting from the portable windows? My idea is to divide 2tb external ssd drive into 200gb and 1800gb partitions. Install the portable windows on to 200gb (os partition) and leave 1,8tb space to be used as external space for my regular computer and also as drive D: for my portable windows. Do u think that will work ?

Great video. How is performance if you want to play games on the external Windows booted system? Is it just a bit more slow in loading the game - but maybe running ok when finally loaded?

bro can i use the use the hardrive after making it portable windows usb?

Does Windows 10 recognize other existing drives after installing it (WinToUsb) and when running from external drive?

I definitely need to install wintousb ? What for ? I installed the portable windows alrrady

Do I need to enter any license key for windows or I can skip the key step?

I'm using a USB Stick and it is Stuck in the loading screen, got someone a solution ?

mines just boots back up like normal, i followed every step, any help?

My system crashes as soon as i select Gpt or MBR

Does it work on 32gb usb 3.0?? Can it hold windows 11 home???

Gonna try this in USB 3.1 type c with a 512gb NVME to w/3.1 USB adapter

good man

Is it possible to install the iso about LINUX using wintousb?? 😕

Great

If I installed, using everything you said (and it worked beautifully) onto an SSD , could I then remove the SSD and install it directly into a new computer? Loved the vid!!!

Can you access your internal hard drive while using windows 10 from usb flash drive?

Is there anyway to do this on Linux?

To those people who its not working, the windows not booting up, try to select into bios boot uefi mode only.

Why does this make my drive constantly run at 100%

I recommend using rufus. Because you can do it with win10 pro

What about the Windows license. I guess you can activate it, BUT when you boot the portable drive in another computer it will detect the hardware change and Windows WILL NOT BE activated anymore……

Does it activate?

no windows XP? :/

USB drive too slow for Window10? I haven't tested Windows10 on a USB so Im going to accept that it is infact not some other issue specific to the video presenter's system. Yet I run Linux (any distro) from a Live USB with no problems, infact that is how one actually one of the options for installing Linux from a USB to a HD (they actually invite testing it first that way), but you can still have your USB Linux incase you want to run it temporarily on other machiens that you may not want to distrub by installing, use a diagnostic or rescue. That being said: I wonder what is so differnet about Windows10 that supposedly drags on USB? is this a USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port? that can certianly be a cause of performance issues. But then again, my Linux experience has also been on USB 2 and older computers with probably way slower processors than the one the presnter has (Lubuntu 18.04 on a 1999 HP Dekspro 733mhz Pentium III w/ 384MB RAM and USB 1/USB 2, with PATA/SATA converters and 2x 2TB WD HDs is still my video file server workhorse to this day ). I've always ran the Live USB first before upgrading as a performance test through different versions starting with Ubuntu 8, 10, 12, 16, progressively until 18 (the last 32bit version). Needless to say my i3, i5, and i7 systems definitely run the current 64bit versions off the USB as well (currently Lubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora as well no problems running off USB). More details anyone?

You can also use rufus

I've been waiting 2 hours and I'm stuck at 0 % Help? I'm using a 4tb Seagate external hard drive

Nice Halo Master Chief John-117 plug on your desktop

Warning most usb sticks are sooo slow.

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I regret clicking windows 10 pro....

None of these things work unless u have bank $$ especially if u want to use a 4k external hard drive

you have to buy that software, bullshit!!!!