In this video I'm going though a step by step guide that shows how to run Chrome OS Flex live from a USB stick. For this demonstration I'm using an old and slow Windows laptop. This Windows laptop only has 2GB RAM and a Celeron processor and doesn't run very well under Windows 10. Here's some links to USB flash drives & Chromebooks on Amazon, I personally use SanDisk for important stuff. SanDisk USB Flash Drives geni.us/SandiskUSBFlashDrives Other USB Flash Drives geni.us/USBFlashDrives Chromebooks on Amazon: geni.us/ChromebooksOnAmazon This is also a good demonstration of dual booting Chrome OS Flex with Windows. In this instance, Windows is on the internal drive and Chrome OS Flex is booting from the USB stick. At this time you can't dual boot Chrome OS Flex from the same internal drive as Windows, although you can do this if you two separate internal drives, something I will be doing in another video soon. You can also install Chrome OS Flex directly to the internal boot drive of the computer that you want to put it on, here's one of my videos showing you how to do that. How To Install Chrome OS Flex On A Windows Laptop Turn Your Laptop Into A Chrome OS Flex Chromebook: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oI6YzLmMXbHIlpM.html The first step to run Chrome OS Flex live from a USB flash drive is to create a bootable Chrome OS Flex USB stick, here is another video of mine showing how to create the Chrome OS Flex bootable USB stick. How To Create A Chrome OS Flex Bootable USB Flash Drive Installer For Windows & Mac: kzread.info/dash/bejne/qmifmah-lbzZd8o.html The second step is to use your computer's boot key to select the drive you want to boot from. Here's some common boot keys. Manufacturer Boot key Acer F2 Apple Hold Option (next to the ⌘ key) Asus Del Dell F12 Gateway F1 HP F9 Intel F2 Lenovo F12 Toshiba F2 or F12 Other Try pressing Esc, any of F1-F12 keys, or Enter The next stage in this video is the installation to the USB stick. Next stage is setting up Chrome OS Flex with a Google account. Next stage is to finally boot into the Chrome OS Flex desktop. I then show the KZread app running on Chrome OS Flex and playing 4K 60FPS game capture footage. I then show how to switch back to windows and how to re-boot back to Chrome OS Flex from the live USB stick. Here are the chapters for this video. 00:00 Introduction & explanation of this video 01:33 How to use the boot key 02:42 Installing Chrome OS Flex to the USB stick 05:30 Chrome OS Flex Home Screen and quick look 06:02 launching KZread 06:44 Playing 1080P 60FPS game play video on KZread 07:41 Playing 4K 60FPS gameplay video on KZread 09:17 Booting back into Windows 10:21 Booting back into Chrome OS Flex again 11:21 End Please give a thumbs up, sub, share my videos and click the bell for notifications. Amazon USA: geni.us/Amazon-USA Amazon UK: geni.us/Amazon-UK Amazon Deutschland: geni.us/Amazon-Deutschland Amazon France: geni.us/Amazon-France Amazon España: geni.us/Amazon-Espana Amazon Italia: geni.us/Amazon-Italia Amazon Canada: geni.us/Amazon-Canada As a KZread technology, review and demonstration channel that covers different aspects of video camera and video editing/processing, audio and microphone stuff. It does take a lot of time and money to help keep my channel running and to fund it. If you find my videos helpful or entertaining and would like to help support my channel. Please use my Amazon links when you are buying products from Amazon. Even using my Amazon links to buy products that I have not directly linked to, will help me with Amazon Affiliate income. Affiliate income does not cost you anything extra but it does help to support my channel. You can also support my channel directly by buying me a coffee or via PayPal from the links below. Any assistance and help is massively appreciated and I thank you sincerely for any support that you give my channel. Support via PayPal www.paypal.me/DavidHarry My KZread equipment & recommendations. Amazon USA amzn.to/3g2Oi3i Amazon UK amzn.to/2ZR6IOV My Amazon Shop links. Amazon USA www.amazon.com/shop/davidharry Amazon UK www.amazon.co.uk/shop/davidharry As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases when you use my Amazon Affiliate links. Contact me for product reviews. KZread@DavidHarry.com http//www.DavidHarry.com I’m David Harry. Thank you very much for watching this video, take care and goodbye now. Cheers, Dave. #ChromeOS#ChromeOSFlex#ChromeOSFlexLiveBootUSBStick Chrome OS Flex USB stick,install chrome os on Windows,chrome os on windows,dual boot chrome os,dual boot chrome os flex,How To Run Chrome OS Flex Live From A USB Stick,setting up Chrome OS Flex,Chrome OS Flex deskop,Chrome OS Flex live boot USB stick,chrome os,how to install chrome os,chrome os install on pc,chrome os install,chrome os flex,how to install chrome os flex,how to download chrome os flex

@DavidHarry

Жыл бұрын

@Tech Today I already have 👍

I hadn't realised that the live USB has persistence. Indeed it does. This is very useful!

Excellent job David. Very detailed explanation and also straight to the main spots. Thanks for this video. I´ll try this on a old laptop.

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the very kind comment and you are very welcome, it was my pleasure. Cheers, Dave.

An excellent explanation. I just went through other videos where they were talking and clicking through so fast that I could not follow anything. I watched your video about creating the flash drive also. Great. Thank you.

Tried it on several laptops and had a very good experience. That hardware support is fantastic, including automatically detecting my USB external DAC and playing all audio through it. If you have a look at what is actually on your USB stick there are several partitions and it does seem to store quite a bit of persistent data for each user session on each device you plug it into (on the start-up screens the OS displays the serial number that it has read from your device to identify it). They just need to change the name from 'Try' to 'Live Mode' - remember everyone don't hit the install button unless you really want to wipe everything (all disks and partitions !!) on the computer you are plugged into. I realise that this only a development release but I think the final release needs to encrypt the data on the USB stick.

One thing you can do to more reliably judge KZread streaming performance: right click on the video and choose stats for nerds, there you can see if it drops any frames.

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, that's right. I wasn't thinking clearly as I was trying to do it in one take and this was something that I'd not planned on doing :) Cheers, Dave.

Excellent way of demonstration. Thank you very much.

David, I like you and your presentations. You are a gift to all of us. Thank you sir!

Thank you, man, you helped me give a new life to my old Thinkpad 👍👍👍👍

Wow intel Celeron performing way better than expected. Also, glad to have played a small part in this video thanks! 😃👍🏼 cheers!

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one Tone. I would have given you a shout out but because I didn’t notice what was on screen because I was trying not to F-up doing it in one take :) I didn’t see your video in my feed until in the edit. BTW, I may do a quick video with something that I’ll be getting soon, would you mind if I play through one of your videos as a demonstration of a function on one of my new things? I’ll obviously credit you and give links etc. Cheers, Dave.

@TonesAdventuresHD

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHarry of course! You never need to ask! cheers!

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Nice one Tone 👍 Cheers, Dave.

this is amazing you deserve more subscribers and views

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! 😊

Android apps for standart PCs... Thats awesome

Great video. The test of how well video runs on different O/S's is one I use when trying Linux distros. Most of the other reviews just show it working. You actually say it is am improvement over Win 10. Well at 2gig it must strain just to run the O/S, let alone video.

Thanks for the clear guide man!

Thanks david.

@DavidHarry

Жыл бұрын

It’s my pleasure and you are very welcome 👍 Cheers, Dave.

Thank you ❤️ friend

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome. Cheers, Dave.

Saw this, was really excited, installed chrome OS flex and the ruddy thing won't detect bluetooth on my laptop. So, back to cloudready until flex is a beta.

heyy! great video but is there a way to install chrome os. like not run it off the usb and dual boot with windows .

I get to the installation and when it asks for my wifi, my keyboard fails to work, cannot type anything noh is the touch screen working only my trackpad is working, Im using a surface laptop, any suggestions? apart from that, the tutorial is spot on!

Hello! David. Can you do the opposite from a chrome os flex user? I mean going back to w10 from a chrome os flex user. Greetings.

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Berner. Unfortunately I don’t think you can do that as I don’t think you can prepare the Windows USB installer under Chrome on Chrome OS. I don’t even think you can burn a Windows ISO inside Flex even if you already have the ISO. You probably will have to have a Windows USB installer already prepared, maybe from a Windows computer or find a Windows ISO and burn the USB flash drive from an operating system that can do that. If you are thinking about going between Flex and Windows on the same computer then you should maybe think about making a Windows disk image so you can load it back on quickly if you want to go back to it from Flex. You should also consider running Flex from a USB flash drive, which is what this video is about, as you can then also have Windows still available on your internal drive. There’s probably little difference in speed running Flex from a USB flash drive or a hard drive as most of the OS is in RAM. You can also install Flex to a second drive internally, just make sure to disconnect your Windows drive and any other attached drives when installing Flex to a second internal drive as it will wipe all the attached drives. Here’s a video on how to use Macrium Reflect, this is how you can make images of your Windows boot drive and other drives, it’s excellent software and I use this for all my disk imaging kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHx8yrdmj5O_maQ.html Cheers, Dave.

Sir,I have a problem.. when I prepare my bootable USB with Chromebook recovery utility the extension actually creates multiple partitions of my USB flash drive and my laptop can't boot from that USB...It stays on a black screen instead of booting from the USB..Note:my laptop only supports 32 bit uefi

@minhhoang6438

2 жыл бұрын

Chromium OSes create multiple partitons in boot device is normal. Note that some devices would not compatible with Chromium OSes.

@vrucewayne

2 жыл бұрын

if you're using an older styled pc, you might have to switch off legacy bios, and switch to UEFI

@punyavrath

2 жыл бұрын

I got it running live from usb stick on 32 bit system

Great video. My main gripe about Chrome OS is that, as I understand it, it allows only very limited on-board storage and kind of forces the user to store most stuff in Google's cloud. Is that still the case with Chrome OS Flex?

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel. No, that's not correct. Check out my other video where I install straight to the drive an Flex uses all the 128GB SSD on my Surface Pro 2. Cheers, Dave.

@danielshames8934

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHarry HI David, thanks for the reply. I did watch your other video, and yes I saw where you showed that Chrome OS Flex was in fact installed on the SSD. My initial question was more in the context of files that I've created that have personal data in them. For example, let's say I've used Google Sheets on my newly converted Chrome laptop to do some personal finance analysis. I really don't want that spreadsheet with my personal finance info, showing how fabulously wealthy I am (joke!), stored in the cloud. Can I save it to my internal HD? And does Chrome OS Flex itself have a limit on how much HD space it can access? Thanks again.

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel. I’ve not done enough with it yet to know certain answer but I will be trying out everything you’ve asked. I also want to use local files and not cloud saves. The one thing I can say is that when installing to an internal drive, it would appear to use all the drive. I don’t know what this limit is but my 128GB SSD in the Surface Pro 2 was totally used with the remainder after the OS being free for use, so over 100GB spare for storage. With all that extra space I would imagine that local storage is a thing Google have considered. Cheers, Dave.

@danielshames8934

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHarry Good info, and thanks so much.

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

@@danielshames8934 👍

So if I have a slow hdd internal is faster to install flex on the usb drive instead the hdd ?

Hey David I need your help . I'm trying to install cloudready from usb drive , it's not turning on after starting the system , just a blank screen. However I'm able to use chrome OS by connecting USB drive. I want to use it without the usb . Please help .we can create a zoom meeting for this

Pls do another with android support chrome os pls

I managed to install it. but I cannot finish the setup because it cannot detect wifi to begin with. Help me please

Sir, please make a video on how to use ChromeOS and Windows on a potato PC... Plz sir... I will be grateful.. I already watched many videos but the videos showed UIFI boot option.. My motherboard hasn’t a UEFI..

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

I’ll be doing video soon with an old Dell Optiplex 3020 desktop computer. Howver, Flex won’t run on a legacy BIOS it does need to be UEFI.

can i use my office365 subscription in chromeOS?

what is the minimum requirement for USB stick in term of capacity?

@cleantoronto3658

2 жыл бұрын

8GB

You said flex is the same as cloudready 2 but it is not google flex is very different for example I downloaded flex and put it on a usb stick and when it booted up I had everything except for Wi-Fi .

Try and install cloudready 2.0 . Because i did that and got black screen after chrome logo. Everything works fine with pendrive(try is first)

Will this work with the Surface RT do you think?

@PakkaponPhongtawee

2 ай бұрын

No, currently chromeos flex does not support ARM

i tried to install cloud ready 2.0 and then it failed. Next i thought to boot to my windows 10 but it says Missing OS Now Im Unable to Access My Laptop Tried Changing the Boot Menu Without the USB Drive But Still Unable To Boot Back To Windows 10 In My Laptop

I tried booting this on an old windows tablet with 2gb ram and it wouldn't get past the initial Chrome splash screen

@r8rex

2 жыл бұрын

Lol 😂 same thing bro i am also stuck at that chrome logo what a coincidence 🤣😂

The subsequent times I boot into chrome, it's unable to reconnect to my network, so everything crashes. It will probably be great at somr point in the future, but it's not finished yet...

How to access my ssd I can't get the storage of an ssd

Mine wouldn't boot back into windows after removing the USB. Kept trying and failing to repair startup.

This really works? I have a i3 laptop and i dont want to uninstall windows to use this shitty chrome os thing because of school, i will try it out and see if it really works

i downloaded it and accidently deleted the os now i cant access my usb is therre a fix

do we lose the files present on the computer by doing this?

@Nik-kv7dc

Жыл бұрын

Yes, if you overwrite your laptop's drive you'll delete the old OS and install Flex instead. Before installing flex make sure to back your files up on your laptop to either a cloud storage service or a USB drive, external HDD/SSD

Will it run on very old laptop with core 2 duo?

@robertushartono1546

2 жыл бұрын

never mind, I found other people manage to install on core 2 duo 1800MHz 3GB ram

Bro I installed in my acer laptop after installing then when we have to shutdown and restart it’s stuck in chrome logo what to do!

@aslanadam8550

2 жыл бұрын

my acer old laptop did that too. I wonder how to fix that problem somebody help pls

@r8rex

2 жыл бұрын

@@aslanadam8550 i think it’s not working like we need kinda 4 gb or 6gb ram atleast or maybe it doesn’t work in all acer laptops probably 🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶🥶

@aslanadam8550

2 жыл бұрын

@@r8rex perfect😅 now I can't return my laptop to windows .it just restart again and again. if you find any solution pls write here bro. thanks

@r8rex

2 жыл бұрын

@@aslanadam8550 you need to change the things from boot up menu like you did for the chrome one i mean when you downloaded and made your pen drive to install chrome you must have pressed f12 when your laptop opens then you must have gone to boot menu there you must have changed the boot to pe drive do it to internal hard drive maybe because of this it’s not opening it will boot with your previously installed windows and will work bro

@aslanadam8550

2 жыл бұрын

@@r8rex thank you bro👌

I have USB 2.0 will it work?

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

yes.

@catgamerstogether6941

2 жыл бұрын

but it is VERY slow

This has not worked on my HP Envy Laptop

Mine won’t connect to the router no matter what I do….why?

I tried this a while back on PC with second generation CPU and it did not install right. Found out second gen CPU's are not for Chrome is at all. Don't try this with second gen cpu it doesn't work just corrupts the hard drive

But what if my computer doesn't have the boot key?

@DavidHarry

Жыл бұрын

Then go into your BIOS and set the USB flash drive to be the first bootable device

is it uefi laptop or mbr

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

Hi. I’ve run it in both. Cheers, Dave.

What about showing the " stats for nerds " on youtube .

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

I forgot :)

@S_Info_Tech

2 жыл бұрын

@@DavidHarry This is the main thing on a google OS . The framerate on KZread , since it started to give 60fps only videos for videos taken in 60 fps, starting ftom 720p and up .

No Android Apk support !!!

@Melonese

2 жыл бұрын

Well yeah, it's still a dev preview, so there's no Google services yet

Funktioniert nur leider nicht

Power of chrome OS comes frome the cloud.... Not the power of the OS....

이건 어느나라 말이냐?

Your example of 4K is FALSE. The little thing CANT present 4K so It's NOT doing it.

Irish?

If Google is going to sniff and glean all of your internet activities, and Linux is about improved "privacy and security" ? Why would a user want to install or use Google Chrome OS ? Why ? Same argument I'd use against a Linux User - using the Chinese version of Deepin...... You just can't take that chance.

@rjpearson

2 жыл бұрын

I am personally thinking about doing this in a much more advanced sense and I have a few reasons. I am going to put it on a USB stick so can have the option of Windows but I need this for performance. My machine would be considered a high midrange with an i7 10th and it doesn't perform the greatest with Windows 11. I am a photographer/videographer/cinematographer and am going to be using this for intense video and photo editing. Chrome OS has gotten to the point that I can use Adobe editors like premiere and even Davinci. Doing this is a lot of work, but the outcome should get next level optimization for the OS and instead of the OS prioritizing processing Windows tasks, it can focus on the editors performance. You saw it with the KZread demonstration, the rendering IS faster. Also, for the spyware that you think Google has, there are things on ALL OS's tracking you and all of which can be disabled. One last thing is the VERY tight OS integration with Android. I can now have better integration with my phone. I use a Google Pixel and have never been concerned about my privacy and feel that Google makes incredible products that open up new doors for machines that were stuck behind closed doors. Finally, yes not all apps are supported, but most are via Linux with a few exceptions that we just have to wait a tiny bit for and well have and in the meantime either find alternatives or switch between the OS's. So, to answer your question... There are a lot of users at all levels of use who will genuinely benefit from Chrome OS flex. 😊

Pls do another with android support chrome os pls

@DavidHarry

2 жыл бұрын

No Android yet, maybe when Flex is on full release. Cheers, Dave.