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 All,

Good day. I'm having issue to use my cloned OS in different laptop. It is successful to use the cloned OS in Lenovo ThinkPad L430.

However, when I try to use in HP EliteBook 840, it failed.

I had checked the BIOS/UEFI setting at HP EliteBook 840 and it is using Legacy instead of UEFI.

Take note that both Lenovo ThinkPad L430 and HP EliteBook 840 are using windows 7 32 bits and both using Legacy but it just can't use in HP EliteBook.

I'm using external SSD running USB 3.0 with 128GB ADATA SSD that plug in into laptop USB3.0 slot.

The clone OS is windows 8.1 and it is perfectly running in Lenovo ThinkPad L430.

Anyone can help?

Regards,
Stevenson

Hello!

Recently, I have been trying to get a portable version of windows onto a flash for me to use on other computers. I have gone though lots of tutorials and threads, and I think in the process of reading this thread here I tried to clean my flash drive as I was getting the error message, "Version of Windows Already Installed" (I got it to start successfully before, but cancelled it because I thought it wasn't working, and now I realized I could have just deleted the hidden files, im sorry for being so stupid.) I tried to fix it using the diskpart commands, but I am unable to execute the command "format quick fs-nfts" as it says, "The file system is incompatible." I tried to go back into WinToUsb to see if I could start the installation again, but I am unable to select a boot partition now. Is there any way to fix this?

Hello,
I have a pc with win 8.1. From another pc I made a USB device with a VHDX-based Windows. I follow instruction "Booting both BIOS-based and UEFI-based computer" and create 2 partition, one FAT32 and one NTFS.

Now I want modify the boot Menu of win 8.1 to add an entry to boot from USB VHDX. The difficult is that in a new Entry of the Boot Menu I must insert the path of *.efi in \Windows\syste32\ directory. Obviusly if the operating system is into del VHDX, I haven't a Windows path.

Someone know if is possible and how, to invoke from a Windows Boot Menu the start of a Windows OS inside a VHDX?


Thanks
Luca

Failed to extract file from the WIM file. Please temporarily deactivate your anti-virus software, and try again. (0x000000F400B40000)
Well, my anti-virus expired and I turned off windows defender, still unsure why i could not install

I used WintoUSB to install Windows 10 home to an external drive. Works great right now.  If I were to upgrade to Windows 10 Pro, would Bitlocker work on the drive since its booted from USB?

Or, is there a better solution that still encrypts the entire drive AND lets me boot from it?

Thanks

Hello,

VHD works great, but how does one create a Legacy or VHDX stick when those options are grayed out?


I've been successful in converting the VHD to VHDX via Hyper-V Manager,

but not successful yet in getting it to boot by changing the device with BCDEDIT:

bcdedit /set {new_guid} device vhd=WinToUSB.vhdx


Is there a better procedure?


Thanks.

I've ran some different installations from the USB thumb drive and I usually experience severe slowdowns. Usually, the disk usage tops 100% for several minutes and the response time goes up and down from 0 to more than 16 seconds.

This is a screen capture of the Task Manager while this happens. The system, while it happens is almost unusable, and it happens quite often.



What could we do to avoid this?
Thanks!

Dear dev team,

I'm running Windows 10 Home (just downloaded from Microsoft) with Boot Camp on a MacBook Pro 2015.
I used the app BootIce 1.3.1 to prepare my USB 3.0 stick for UEFI with two partitions.
The first time cloning the existing worked fine (and quite quick). I just made the error that I didn't increase the virtual disk size in VHDX mode. But the Windows booting from the USB worked perfectly.
But still with too little space left, I reformatted the USB drive again.

Now however, the cloning in Windows PE seems to get stuck at 0%.
No error code whatsoever.

Thanks in advance!

Hi Forum, I'm trying to use the free version of WinToUSB 2.8 to install Windows 8.1 Pro 64bit downloaded directly from the Microsoft VLSC as a Windows to Go partition.

However, WinToUSB gives me an error that I can't install Enterprise versions of Windows with the free version of WinToUSB.

Any tips on why WinToUSB is recognising Win 8.1 Pro as enterprise?

Thanks for any help!