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

Hi!

Well appreciated to understand what was created on my external drive after completion.

mbr for bios and UEFI:
I needed a copy of my drive (legacy Bios) because it is crashing at times
and 
a copy that can be installed in a new machine that I am still building with UEFI.

I am using the Win2USB Professional.

My source machine is an old Legacy Bios Toshiba laptop (2012). (477GB)

1. I choose my existing Windows64 10 pro (22H2) (SOURCE) to a WD 1 TB  external Drive (DESTINATION).
2. I choose mbr for bios and UEFI and ran it under the "Legacy" setting.
3. 5 hours later and all was created successfully.

two drives were created; that seem to exist within my external drive:
1. copy of my original source now labelled "F:" instead of "C:"
2. WINTOUSB labelled "G:"


The Source and Source Copy are the same (C & F)
The folder inside WINTOUSB looks like this:



my question is do i need to do anything other than have my external drive plugged in and set my bios to usb .....
and restart the machine to see if my old machine can boot ok in an emergency?

Thanks!
Jeff

When I use WinToUSB to try create a Windows To Go USB, it fails when it reaches 100%.
This only happens when I use VHD. When I use Legacy, it works fine. When I use VHDX, it fails with 'Failed to run system API' or something like that.

Images have been attached at the bottom. They may appear small, however when you click them they should be readable.
Also attached is the structure of the USB as seen in a partition manager (I used MiniTool Partition Wizard).
The error code is '0x00CE00630BCA002F'.

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I've created a clone of my Win10 home edition on a 2tb Sandisk USB SSD protected by bitlocker.   Windows works as expected.  The problem is when I'm logged in I cannot view the drive WINTOUSB: (D), which is providing the functionality normally seen in C: and contains all the windows and user files.   When I click on the drive in Explorer I see the the message "You don't currently have permission to access this folder".  Is there any way to access this folder when logged in?  I can access it from other computers, just not when logged in to the bootable version.

I am using an Axe Memory 500 GB flash drive and creating Win 11 Pro on it. Formatting lasts 45 minutes by now and WintoUSB still doing the same thing. What's wrong? Never have encountered that long-lasting formatting.
I chose a partition scheme MBR for BIOS and UEFI. The partition style of my C drive is GPT. Maybe this was my wrong decision?

EDIT: I can't believe it!!! It's been much over an hour now

Edit2: That's it! I can't stand this any longer   Two hours have passed.

EDIT3: Sorry guys for leading you to confusion. That is something wrong with my computer. I hit the task manager and I saw 0% usage of CPU by WintoUSB. Apart from this, there's some different behavior of my PC I noticed.

I'm going to make Win11 Pro WTG on an Axe Memory flash drive of 500 GB.
I see an option in WintoUSB like "Virtual Hard Disk Size". Do I need to modify the number which showed up in there or am I supposed to leave this as it is?
Another question. Maybe stupid one, maybe not. 500 GB is a big-capacity flash drive. So I wonder how WintoUSB is going to treat this external device. Therefore should I choose VHDX or maybe legacy installation mode?

Edit: Okay now. Disregard the second question guys. I can put an ISO file thru WintoUSB two times after all. In case when something wrong would have been with WTG then I'll choose another installation mode making WTG again. There's no big deal.

Installation mode legacy does not appear in the choice menu...Why ???????
 
I tried every thing but I only loose time and money on your wintousb...
Does not seem to work at all...
Please refund !!!!!!!!!!!

Is it possible to install windows on a mac OS ? Thanks

To avoid having to press a function key, to direct the boot to my USB device, I need to know what folder/file to point the boot process to in BIOS setup. 

I added a boot option, pointing it to the USB device. 

BIOS then asks me to select the media file, listing the folders and files it can see at that location.
I have not yet selected a folder as the target, so I am not sure doing so will not result in another selection to make from the contents of the (yet-to-be) selected folder. 

The list of options are: (See attachment)
<System Volume Information> (Folder)
<Boot> (Folder)
<EFI> (Folder)
<$RECYCLE.BIN> (understood as not a valid option)
bootmgr (File)
D519D51B______fill in the blank with tons of characters______.exc (File)

I greatly appreciate any assistance!

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Hello everyone,

I have 2 SSD hard drives (500GB and 1TB) with windows (one for programming, one for music creation)
It has already happened to me that one of them crashes, impossible to repair it with the windows tools at startup (so I was forgotten to reinstall EVERYTHING, it took me a long time)
So, I had done a test by cloning one of the SSD disks on another SSD (with EaseUS), but impossible to boot the disk where the backup was (windows error before its launch, blue screen if I remember correctly)

What solution do I have? How can I back up my 2 hard drives properly?
The ideal would be to have a 2TB backup hard drive by making a 500GB partition for the backup of disk 1 and another of 1TB for disk 2
and...if ever one of my SSD crashes, recover the backup on a partition of my backup HD to re-clone on my bootable SSD

Thank you in advance for your help!