I am aware of the procedure to clone an existing Win 10 USB to another disk as backup, but have a question.  I have enabled the hard disk of the host computer in my existing USB.  Should this be disabled before creating a new clone or might the software do this automatically?

When using an ISO as an image file in WinToUSB and selecting Home edition, the following error is received (see attached) 


Note this Microsoft developer ISO contains other images of Windows 10, however I am selecting the Home edition. 
Tried with Windows 10 versions: 1809, 1903, 2004

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Hello, so I've been trying to get a Windows 8.1 Pro WinToUSB portable hard drive (Sandisk 1TB portable hard drive) to work with my laptop but when trying to run on my laptop, it says "A disk read error occurred Press Ctrl + Alt + Del to restart". It works just fine on my main PC (in fact, I am using it rn). The hard drive is an MBR drive, which was recommended by this post: Hasleo Software Forums - Disk read error (easyuefi.com) but MBR still doesn't work. On the laptop, Windows is installed as a GPT but when I try to use GPT with WinToUSB, I get an ACPI error and when searching it up, it says to allow the program through an anti virus or remove the program, yet when I did it, it still errored out. I have tried everything, googling everywhere, resetting the BIOS on the laptop but it just won't boot! Could the fact that it is a Hackintosh using Clover device affect it? I am genuinely out of ideas at this point.

Hello,

i saw in the changelog that some releases specifically add support for a new version of windows (e.g. for example version 5.8 add support for windows 20H2).

What kind of improvement are done to the sofware with these new version (for example 5.8) compared to the previous ones (for example 5.6) for the process of cloning an existing windows 20H2 installation? 

The improvements are confined to the wintousb software itself or some improvement are also applied to the resulting cloned portable Windows?

Thanks

I have used WinToUSB to clone Windows 10 home to an external SSD with USB 3.0. I find overall performance to be superior to that of the computer from which it was cloned  Initial bootup is much quicker, as is waking from “sleep.”  Also, it feels like there does not seem to be as much background junk going on. The clone USB seems equally as speedy on a different computer from which it was cloned. I would like to understand why this is happening. My imagination?  Any thoughts?

Hi
I'm trying to install windows to go on a SanDisk Extreme PRO USB 3.1 256GB Drive
WinToUSB Does not report any errors however when I boot the USB it shows a Black blank screen no windows logo, nothing
However when I resize the NTFS partition of the drive to less then 120 GB the Drive boots up
Please help I'm very confused
I'am using the VHD method to install windows to go

I would like to use Windows 8.1 x86 and Windows x64 on the Same USB 
Is it possible to dual boot both operating systems using WinToUSB ?

I wanted to backup my PC Windows from a bootable Acronis drive. It failed because my PC partitions have Bitlocker encryption. I then tried to make a new pure windows install with my paid WinToUSB (Version 5.6 Release 1 Build from August 10 2020) on an external USB hard disk to install Acronis to it and open the encrypted PC partition with Bitlocker from this external Windows. But it did not work:
WinToUSB did not write any files to the USB drive only the folder and file structure. The progress indicator remained at zero all the time. I tried to install Windows from my notebook to and it was the same. One error message was that WinToUSB could not extract files from the WIM file. The source ISO was downloaded freshly from Microsoft in both cases.
I used two versions of Windows-ISO, two hard drive enclosures, two 250GB hard drives, two differrent computers both only running Windows Defender as antivirus software (I had to kill Acronis Protection).

But when I ran WinToUSB from my WtU-copy of my main system (on an external SSD) suddenly I could write an windows installation on to a external USB hard drive, including a working percentage info. (Unfortunately my first attempt for this windows pure thing did not boot properly and crashed while still in boot.)

What went wrong?

Hello!

I use Win10 2014 on a 1 TB SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD. The installation work quite fine and fast, but when I start a VM in VMware Workstation 15.5.6 build-16341506 the host system shows a high CPU load (the VMware Workstation VMX consume the CPU) in idle and gets under load much higher (the same VM on the same host with a default Windows installation performs smoothly and consumes 10% of the CPU). I tried the WinToGo installation on different hardware platforms all BIOS/UEFI settings for virtualization are on. I assume there are some registry keys in the WinToGo installation which makes the life of the hypervisor difficult.

THX

I have several small USB-SSDs with bootable copies of my Windows boot partition. I do not want to write too often to these drives and therefor thought it coul be a good idea to use a sychronising app (SecondCopy) to "simply" make the USB-SSD the same as my PC -SSD (Exact copy, copy source to destination, delete obsolete files from destination) . But even when I booted from a WinToUSB drive and copied the files "cold" from the PC to another WinToUSB drive it did not work. Inoticed that the latest programms I had installed on the PC did not show up on the copy that should have been identical. Went something wrong or is it simply no good idea to try it the way I did?