Why don’t you guys always go straight to the point

In love that you didn’t have an “Intro” and went strait in !!!

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!

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!

10/10 tutorial. Right to the point- no time wasted. Well done.

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.

I had to go through several other videos to activate the ssd and open my bios but still came back to this vid to finish the process 👌🏽

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.

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.

Glad I found your channel. No bullshit and no crappy intro. Just content and knowledge.

it took only an hour to finish the whole process without any error:) thank you for the tutorial!

Thank you very much, took me 20 hours and 30 different videos until I figured it out all because of you!

just wanted to pay homage , made a pc for my cousin dont know what im doing had no internal memory and this saved my life and his pc easy and quick

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.

I love videos that start immediately.

Good, calm straight to the point tutorial.

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.

Nice guide! Just a note, GPT and MBR is not a choice between external SSD / HDD. GPT is needed for 64bit OS.

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

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 😊

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?

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

very helpful, thank you, even after 3 years. still relevant. cheers!

How do I install windows on an SSD and then move that SSD into my laptop and make it the primary C (boot) drive from within?

Excellent video bro...concise and straight to the point......thanks!!!

Hi, great tutorial. Thank you so much. However, it has been updated since. The tools are a bit more difficult to follow.

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?

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 ?

👉👐👈 Outstanding 'above stomach hand waving' throughout. 👏

I have a Dell Rugged with a stupid caddy that crashes everthing when i install it... so this was a big help. Thanks

this video is an actual life saver. love you

might I suggest using rufus? for external drives tho you need to press alt + f to make rufus recognise the drive.

*"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*

Clean and clear, thanks bro

THANKS DUDD

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.

Awesome !!

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

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....

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!

Thanks for the tips! 👍

This video is the truth, thank you so much for the helpful video

I thank you for this plain-good tutorial

You saved me with this video, thanks!

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?

Just did this. 100% recommend yah

Sir.... What will be happen if i remove portable ssd when laptop was shut down

Perfect tutorial

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

thank you finally

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?

Great video bro. Thanks a lot.

Awesome, thank You Brother!!!

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

Sir you're a really great explainer

Best tutorial, 10/10

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 .

Love your content

This is a cool dude, yo. Thanks bro.

Thank you so much for help.

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!

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

nice video. i just did it.. nice bro.

Thank you so much, very useful guide🙂 Does it work with External Thunderbolt 4 drives?

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?

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.

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?

My network doesnt work on the ssd

You can do this without formatting the SSD, it is sad he didn't explain this.

Thanks so much!

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

None of this is the same anymore. Needs to be updated. Thanks!

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)

Thanks. Planning on using Windows on a 240GB SSD with Adobe for college so I don't have to nuke my Debian install.

THANKS you so much.

Thank you very much ! 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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.

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 😭

im not really great with things like this but say for example im using a gaming pc right now ...if i do exactly as you do in this video install an outside external usb and then use that for lets say youtube or online shopping etc etc once i unplug that external usb and go back to the original pc tower then none of my youtube or shopping searches should appear on the original hard drive it should all be on the external?

you dont need the partition that's on the external drive to be set to active do you? or do you..

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.

Danke und schön ohne Dialekt , gut zu verstehen. Ich habe es sofort kapiert und das mit 60 Jahren. Möge dich der Stich niemals treffen.

Worked great once loaded but is it normal for Windows 10 to take a long time to boot/restart/shutdown from external SSD?

i tried choosing a 465gb hard drive, but it could only choose 30gb in the software u suggested

Nice tutorial

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.

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?

very nice

Will this work if I plan to boot using a MacBook? I need to use a few apps that’s only made for PC but don’t want to buy a PC. I’d like to continue to use my MacBook & just boot windows.

If u put out an ssd from a laptop, put it in an external ssd case and connect it with usb in another laptop without OS, will not work?

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

Did u get actual performance of your ssd .Please let me know . Thank you

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?

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?

great video..thank you,,,, I have a samsung 970 EVO NVMe M2 1 terrabite in a sleeve to use external. I intend to follow your instructions. BUT..how do I get my apps along with all the data, photos etc. I want to use this external drive as if it is its own computer. How can I do this? Do you have a video on it? many thanks

Is this for every external SSD? I was wondering would I need to do these same steps for samsung g drive ssd

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 ?

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

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.