Been working on this all day. I got Win10 from the store on a Microsoft USB drive. I found the SWM files in the x64/sources directory figuring I wanted the 64-bit version of Home. For the life of me it wouldn’t install using paid version 4.8.

I decided to try the install.swm file in the x86/sources directory. It is installing now, but “stuck” at 0%. Not sure if it is really stuck. Will give it time.

I will send logs if this doesn’t work. Just wondering what the diff between the x64 and x86 versions.

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Well, I have Win7 64-bit installed. The difference is one is 64-bit and the other is 32-bit. Only have 4GB of RAM so the 32-bit Win10 should be OK.

Spinny circle still at 0%.

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Circle still at 0% but drive is filling up...went from 164MB used to 260something. Something is happening. It is usb 2.0 on an older laptop. Sooooo..plus the usb drive I am installing on is probably not ideal. I read something about 4K read/write times.

(Edit)

Just as I posted last edit, it flipped to 1% then 2 then 5.

I have several external USB devices (cheap SSDs in UGREEN USB 3.0 enclosures) that can boot to Windows 10. But as most of our PCs are on 1809 already I cannot simply clone those PCs to an WinToUSB device. HASLEO says that to produce a bootable USB device one can use VHDs. I tried with differrent PC backups that I made with Disk2VHD and so far use with VMware Player installed on the device specific external SSD. I hope that I could increase speed when booting these VHDs directly and not via a virtual machine player.
Is this possible with WinToUSB?

I have made several backup devices with WinToUSB that can run the full Windows installation of their PCs. But I had no success so far with the notebook of my wife. As the second best solution I made an clean installation of 1809 with WTU 4.6 to an external SSD which can boot the notebook wihout any Problems. And in this fresh Windows I then start a backup of the Notebook in VHD Format from VMware Player 15. It works but is a little bit too much for my wife.
As I have bought only one License for WinToUSB Pro so far, I would like to know whether I can get a running Windows installation clone. For instance by replacing the Windows Partition that WTU installs on the external device with a backup from a backup and restore Programm or a partition copy with software for that. My first attempt with EaseUS Todo did not produce a bootable device.
Is there a way to get this running?

WinToUSB under Windows 7 attempting to apply Windows 10 .ISO file to MBR, UEFI or both in combination to VHD file on USB thumb drive generates error message "Failed to extract file from the WIM file. Please temporarily deactivate your anti-virus software , and try again.."

^^^^^^With no anti-virus software running... Multiple Thumb Drives...  Multiple .ISO files...  Is there a resolution to this??

I have a blank SATA laptop hard drive and I want to make it Windows to Go. I have made it external USB drive by using a hard drive USB enclosure/caddy. I have tried all methods to make it Windows to Go but after everything (installation/making phase) completed, it failed to boot/run windows. I have already tried "USB Flash Drive" method and "External Drive" method and "Internal Drive" method (after creating System and Boot partitions) 100 times but nothing worked. Installation got completed 100% but unable to boot/run windows from same drive.

Please note, its a SATA 2.5 inch laptop internal hard drive which is converted to an external hard drive through a USB enclosure/caddy.

Please guide step-by-step..i.e..how to format..how to install..how to run. Thanks in advance.

Hello,
    Who has experience backing up a drive created with WintoUSB ?
I've tried AOMEI Backupper Standard and Macrium Reflect. Both don't like
the Windows to Go drive . These work properly on my internal drive in Windows 10 1803.
 I'm open to suggestions.
Thanks

I have a laptop HDD but how can convert to a portable drive?

Hello,
I successfully installed windows 10 Pro on a 128 Gb Sandisk USB thumb drive.
It works flawlessly, however every now and the I get a message in Windows saying that I do not have enough free space in the drive where the VHDX file is.
How is it possible?
Does Windows 10 Pro really take 128 Gb of space?

Please help.
Thank you!
iR

I’m using a Macbook Pro 2017 and worked with WTG drivers for months. Recently i bought NVIDIA RTX graphic cards but my older version 1703 doesn’t work with RTX. I have to upgrade my Windows into 1809 so I chose WinToUSB to do that. I erased and formatted my drive and installed WTG correctly, but after I successfully booted the first time into WTG and installed the Boot Camp drivers and restarted, the WTG cannot be booted anymore. I erased again and clean installed again and things are the same. I want to know what’s the problem here, thank you!

The drive I am using is a Sandisk SSD with a SATA USB C case. I also tried to connect to the SATA port of my eGPU case and use the Thunderbolt 3 as I used to do, but didn’t work as well.

Hello,
I have wintousb installed as vhdx.
when native booting the system starts without problems, but always comes with the Windows performance optimization, since no paging file can be created. What have I done wrong. Please help.