Hi,

I bought a 2TB SHDD to replace my 500MG SSD with is running out of space. My plan is to do a fresh install of Windows 10 64bit and all my programs and then move all my user data over on the new drive mounted externally... when all is done I would then swap the old drive with the new install. This would minimize the downtime and make sure I have a light and clean initial system on this new drive ready before installing it.

Is WinToUsb appropriate to build Windows 10 on my external drive before installing it in PC? Would the old drive be bootable to once it is installed on the same external usb3 enclosure in case I need to run program there later?

If there cons to doing this, I would then use my usual approach, bootable WIndows10 instal thumb drive (using Rufus) and install new drive in the laptop and apply a clean install to it. Carry with the same as above.

Thank you,
Donat

Hi everyone:

Recently I used WintoUSB 2.0 beta to install Windows 10 Tech Preview build 9841, the process is pretty smooth.

My question right now is: does the stable 2.0 release support upgrading builds right within the external drive without going through the entire process within WintoUSB again? Like either trick Windows into think my external drive is an HDD, or actually make the external drive emulate the environment of HDD.

I wanted to upgrade to build 9926 because the UI is just too beautiful to ignore. I'm gonna wipe my current install of build 9841 and download the latest version of WintoUSB just to install build 9926.

Currently, if Windows asked to upgrade my build, and I choose it to do so, it will pop up a message saying "Windows Technical Preview cannot be installed in a flash drive."

Hi all,

I have a laptop that I want to run a second version of Windows off a USB on occasions. However the laptop is already used with BitLocker - hence the TPM chip will be used to store the startup key for the main installation.

Can I also use bitlocker on the Wintousb Windows installation, and if so is it likely to reset the TPM configuration and thus cause problems for the main installation?

I note that Windows To Go doesn't use the TPM chip for this very reason, but I'm not sure if Winto usb will also work in the same way and thus could cause a problem for the main installation.

Thanks for any help.

Oliver.

Windows 8.1 pro on a WD elements 25a2 500gb External HDD. Everytime i boot from the hdd it gives me a disk read error. Ctrl + alt + Del to restart.
Its an MBR
If anyone knows how to fix this please help.

Hello,
I'm trying to clone my Windows 10 hard drive to my external usb hard drive (both are GPT) .
I have correctly formatted the EFI Partition and NTFS Partition (EFI & Boot).
I have not used sector by sector clone as my Source HDD is 3TB while USB HDD is 1TB.

Every time i tried i just keep getting the same error after it reaches 55%, i tried reformatting the Partitions and still no success.
This error keeps coming up: "Failed to run system API.(0x0005001500F90000)".

Do you know how to fix this problem? I also have images to the screens.
I am using WinToUSB Free too.






Thanks.

I set WIndows 10 on my SanDisk UltraFit 128gb Pendrive (3.0 150mb / s) with WinToUSB.

Unfortunately, somehow everything works slowly, it's impossible to work.

Does anyone have an idea why? Install something? Any drivers? Benchmarks?

In the net I read that with a fast not obsolete USB stick in the USB version should work with sufficient speed for normal use. (my pendrive seems to be okey for something like that)

 

I do not know how to go about it ... any ideas how to start with it?

my laptop is Dell Inspiron 3721

What can I do if I have this issue : "Failed to extract file from the WIM file . Please temporarily deactivate your anti-virus software , and try again 0x000000F009590046 " . I installing the windows by WinToUsb app on a new SSD Drive .. the app is installind up to 36% than appear the Issue wroted uper and automatecally is ejecting the SSD drive !

I have no any anti-virus installed >> even Windows defender I deactivate >>> Same issue apear !
How to solve this issue ?? What shoud I add or change ?

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This has happened to me twice now cloning Window 8.1 to Extreme usb 3.0 works 100%, however it seems when the space is getting low on the 64GB stick windows decides to use the paging file on the local internal drives & also changing the boot menu thinking it shouldboot from D drive & not drive C.

Hi there,

After all of cloning process, that took a lot of time, the process failed with an error 0x0079000200F90000 message (see attatchment). I was trying to clone a 1TB hdd with 482GB used to another 1 TB hdd, with 1GB Fat32 system partition and the remaining as boot partition NTFS.

Thanks for any help

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I followed
"How to use WinToUSB to clone Windows 10 to an external hard drive as portable Windows 10"

System partition 200MB Fat32
boot partition NTFT of over 200 GB
Trying to clone a 100GB installed OS
Used an external SanDisk USB3 SSD drive of 250GB

Also Tried with a 500GB usb external disk and got the same error, so it looks the the size is not the issue

Log included

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