Well explained easy to follow. I was trying to install windows on a EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE as well and the normal process wouldn't go thru because Windows does not allow "INSTALLATION THROUGH USB" but i came across your video and now i have it running thanks to you and wintousb lol. Thanks man keep the hard work! 🥰

I have had this video saved on my bookmarks for a couple years. It never lets me down. 👍🏼

Dude, you have no idea of how you saved my life. For posteriority: tried October 2021 with a PC from 2018, with a Samsung SSD of 256Go. Worked perfectly.

3 years later and still worth it. Thanks

Even in 2022, this has helped me immensely with reviving a dead 2011 Toshiba Laptop 🤣 Thank you so much for being able to help me bring back my computer

at first i had no hope and then i found your video and it worked thank you

@TalTicoYT

3 жыл бұрын

Bruv same

4 years later and your still helping peeps, thankyou

Thank you for this informational video. I tried every method I could possibly find. This was the only one that worked. 🙏🏼 you’re awesome!

YOU ARE A FRICKING LEGEND, ive been trying to install Windows 10 on the ssd i got from christmas for the past 2 days and you solved it Quick and easy, you made my day, thank you SO much

Love your CLEAR, Patient Voice and simple instruction; GREAT JOB! Thank you.

@Alpha-Trion7

3 жыл бұрын

You did it, *great job* -rage racer. :P

@tryingmann3458

Ай бұрын

After using it as a bootable drive, can it still be used as a storage drive on other devices

The MegaMan 3 ending credits song gives the cherry on top of this. Very helpful

Phenomenal tutorial. You spoke so clearly, all steps were easy to follow and complete, and most importantly, everything works! A like and subscription from me!

@aadtalks7131

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was watching the unveiling of the IPhone 😅

Massive thanks for this video. I've now successfully installed Windows 10 on an external SSD drive and with the help of another video set up updates to install. It runs like a dream too, much better than Bootcamp on the same HDD. Thanks!!

@calvinphelps8786

3 жыл бұрын

I've been thinking about doing this too. What ssd did you use and how's the speed? Apparently the external drives are supposed to be much slower but with an ssd and usb 3.2 I imagine it would run quickly.

@convan707

3 жыл бұрын

I used a Crucial SSD with a Sabrent enclosure from amazon. Works brilliantly and very fast compared to when I had it bootcamped on the internal fusion drive. Only thing I had to do was download the Windows support software and manually Install the drivers which took 5 minutes at most.

This is one of the best tutorials i have seen. a lot of tutorials waffle on and its to long.. You went through each step quickly and concisely. Really enjoyed it bro. I've subscribed to you now. will have a look through your other videos. do you have a tutorials for writing python?

I wanted to install Windows 10 on my USB External Hard Drive for game development purposes. Then, I found out that I couldn't do the installation normally through a bootable USB Flash Drive, so I thought that this video would be useful for people since I watched a few too many tutorials with text on Notepad on KZread!

@BitcoinBitz

7 жыл бұрын

After I've followed all this and installed on USB 3.0 drive when i use windows ten it is incredibly clunky and slow is this normal? I am using a 3.1 USB which should have the ultimate fastest transfer speeds...yes i tried it on the regular 3.0 usb too both have same affect slow and clunky and suggestions??

@stephencruz8744

7 жыл бұрын

yea i just left my my hard drive going for 8 hours and it barley got to 25% any tips?

@2PACBRB2014

7 жыл бұрын

stuck at 0% doesnt work why are u posting fake video?

@RafaelGarlan

6 жыл бұрын

How can I do the same but instead on the same drive I will install it to another HDD (Upgrading from 32bit to 64bit and it needs a clean install)

@alkhembey2422

6 жыл бұрын

bRo, Thank You.

Thank you for the superb instructions. your procedure worked perfectly after I spent days trying EVERYTHING else!

Great video man. I'm extremely happy this was the video I watched instead of the other videos. The quality of this was amazing, simple, neat and clean.

I followed the instructions and the result was as expected. Very good and detailed presentation. Thank you very much.

I spent days trying to clone my win10 onto samsung ssd but bios said drive wasn't accessible so total frustration. I followed your instructions and -perfect. Thank you so much. Your video is excellent without the usual. hype. Brilliant!

Heelo, Just came back to say thankyou, loved your " straight to the point" points. It was a pleasant video to watch, and helpful.

Thank you for this guide hun everything works perfectly on my new pc you’ve brought me much happiness your directions were straight forward and simple and just Incase anyone is concerned you can do this on a different pc and then take the external hard drive and simply plug it into the pc that you want to have Windows 10 and when you turn the pc on it will automatically boot windows set up like he said. for me my pc did restart itself after loading windows for a few minutes when it turned back on it was finished loading and I could start the set up

Dude thanks. After spending hours in agony, I can now feel the sweetness of bliss.

@silentjokerz97

4 жыл бұрын

I feel you, just in the same situation rn.

@pepsusser

3 жыл бұрын

R u both switching windows off the main hard drive cos of how slow it gets as well?

@webstime1

3 жыл бұрын

@@pepsusser No, in my case I have an ssd and the speed is alright. I use windows off the main drive for testing out applications

@pepsusser

3 жыл бұрын

@@webstime1 ah thats fair

People like you are the HERO'S of KZread! Thank you!!

Indeed a life saving video, I spent close to 8 hours just to stumble on this

IF YOU DON'T CLEAN THAT MONITOR, SO HELP ME GOD.

@chrise202

3 жыл бұрын

@Josh Ramasawmy Thats what I tell myself when i'm lazy.

@lizardlion5322

3 жыл бұрын

i intentionally dont clean mine. i prefer hard/gross mode computing/gameplay

@Fee.1

3 жыл бұрын

@Josh Ramasawmy so you clean them more often. That’s kind of like saying “nah I don’t need to bathe because I have a job where I get all dirty and sweaty all the time anyway so I’m just going to chill in musty af mode”. Nah chief, you bathe more often then 😂

@gregburdine4373

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣 as soon as I seen the monitor I seen this comment!

@billknudson7895

2 жыл бұрын

Ha! After such a great tutorial, I’ll clean it once for free.

Great video! This helped me to make it all work, thanks!!

I will have to watch the video again before I try it, but your instructions were excellent--easy to understand and follow.

FANTASTIC!! So clear & concise. Worked perfectly. THANK YOU!!

Thanks for all the information. Note: Make sure that you make SSD disk an MBR disk on Disk Management. For GPT disks, WinToUSB Next button will be disabled.

@DanLo-tube

5 жыл бұрын

How do you do this ? I can find no options for it.

@afekowogamer9093

5 жыл бұрын

@@DanLo-tube you still need help?

@DanLo-tube

5 жыл бұрын

@@afekowogamer9093 I stopped trying such install, but would be cool having the answer. :)

@afekowogamer9093

5 жыл бұрын

@@DanLo-tubein the start of the video he show disk management. You need to right click on the left side instead of the right side and it will show to switch between gpt and mbr If you still don't get it i can record for you a video

@DanLo-tube

5 жыл бұрын

@@afekowogamer9093 I'll check that. Thanks ! :)

Thanks for this; it's the only approach that worked for me! The latest version of WinToUSB has a new dialog box asking whether you want to use GPT for UEFI for MBR for BIOS. GPT didn't work for me, but MBR did. I happen to be using a Y700 too, so this tutorial was extra-helpful. Thanks again!

@eddieteddi

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for commenting this. Would've had to retry if I picked the wrong one!

@jackt7331

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for commenting

@lowapainter

2 жыл бұрын

I downloaded the same version of wintousb as author of the video and had no problem with windows 10pro and UEFI. I turned off internet in case the program would try to make me upgrade. Everything worked like a charm. Unfortunately this windows doesnt see my internal hdd, witch was why I did this in the first place. If anyone has any tips, they are more then welcome;)

Thank you for this video how-to. I was SOL with an internal hard drive connection gone. This knowlede saved the day.

thx for your video man, i've tried a lot of videos but i couldn't fix the problem and yours did help me one time, keep it up

Guys this is outstanding, just imagen after installing it you can plug it in and it runs normally. great video man keep it up you have helped much.

@markjones2349

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but it runs at a whopping 250MB/s. Blazingly slow.

Can I perform the installation of Windows iso using WinToUSB on my desktop computer but I will use the external hard drive as main boot drive in my laptop computer? Edit: It works. I tried it.

@anaselamrati2617

5 жыл бұрын

thats what i was gonna ask ! i hope it will work for me too

@itorres008

4 жыл бұрын

Aren't there problems or conflicts since original installation configures hardware drivers and other things based on desktop, then you move it to laptop that has different hardware?

@dika-hamardikan4426

4 жыл бұрын

@@itorres008 can't you just reconfigure it or install the missing drivers?

thank you so much, this video guides me to install windows 10 onto an external usb hard drive successfully.

Thanks a lot! This video was really helpful. Wish you all the best. Keep creating more videos.

It worked perfectly I recommend this tutorial. Very well explained

@mikeg2be

4 жыл бұрын

Did you have to use a product key?

Thank you for this, my laptop's internal hard drive failed and I don't have the money to get it repaired or to replace it so I'm hopeful I can just use an external hard drive instead

@saidbekkhalikov7199

3 жыл бұрын

Did it work? Cause I am in the same sit

@codypoore6173

2 жыл бұрын

@@saidbekkhalikov7199 Yes, it did. I originally bought an external HDD because I didn't want to spend a ton of money just in case it didn't work but it did so I decided to spring and get an external SSD to use as my boot drive, which also worked.

I’m doing this now and so far this video is super helpful, when I gets it done and working I’ll let you know , thanks bro ✌️✌️✌️

even after 5 years this tutorial works awesome thanks man

After I restarted the computer it's opened on external driver! I would like to say thank you!

It was very helpful thank you ! But I have a problem, I wanted to reinstall Windows 10 on a PC, I installed it but it only detect my USB external drive and the internal hard drive. How can I resolve this problem and install correctly ? Thanks

@johnvafiades7969

5 жыл бұрын

cmd as admin bootsect /nt60 c: /force /mbr bcdboot c:\windows /s c: where c:=main internal drive, it should boot in main drive and not the external drive ok.

@WiKiTWoNKa

5 жыл бұрын

Try unplugging the USB Drive before booting your PC

Thank you for this very interesting video. I have an Asus all in one PC and was going to swap the 3.5 HDD for an SSD. Then buy an enclosure for the old HDD and use it as storage. However, now I have watched your video I am reconsidering my options. Can you tell me if you tested the speed of your PC with the SSD connected via the internal SATA 111 connection verses a USB 3 connection? Is there a noticeable difference in the PCs performance?

Thank you for being a normal person! Thank God! We are so few in the world today. And thank you for being precise.

Help. I cant get past the destination disk selection. Wintousb doesnt highlight the next button. what can i do?

Can i do this process (install windows 10 on usb hard drive) then replace the local hard drive for the one i had on my usb hard drive?

@interestingcontent8758

4 жыл бұрын

Yes you can.

@Fee.1

3 жыл бұрын

You can technically but you’ll want to take some other steps too. Did you ever do this? Can I ask why you wanted to do it that way ?

@zifajuggernaut9986

2 жыл бұрын

@@Fee.1 what other steps? I'm trying to do exactly what he intended to but I'm so clueless rn

thank you very much for your video! do you think I can do this from my mac and use Windows on my 500gb external usb hard drive?

dude YOU ROCK! My western digi 1 tb on my y700 just started clanking! I PUT WINDOWS10 ON EXTERNAL USB DRIVE, SKIPPED CDRIVE, POERED UP AND RECOVERED MOST C DRIVE B4 REPLACING IT! SWEEEEET!!!!

So I did all this booted successfully into windows 10... Set it up and shutdown it properly. But the when I booted in again.. I have blue screen of death saying "Your pc ran into problem and needs to restart. You can restart." Critical service failed is the error. Help!!!

@lowkeyz7139

5 жыл бұрын

You deleted something or a virus has done something. This only happens if your Computer runs into a real critical error.

@Alan-wj5zc

5 жыл бұрын

@@lowkeyz7139 Hey pal can you help me out? I'm about to build my first pc because my laptop broke, I stupidly didn't have a USB windows 10 bootable drive on hand. I'm stuck with trying to download the windows 10 creation media tool but my only other device is a windows 7 vista which isn't supported. Is there a way to get this USB loaded with the essentials without it having to go through my C: drive? I really don't want to have to buy one already created.

@itsadisood

5 жыл бұрын

@@lowkeyz7139 tHANKS. Although i just repeated the process. it works fine now. thanks mate

Great video, very helpful :-)

I am super impressed by how my Sandisk Cruiser glide handles this so smoothly, it’s only 32 gb and I don’t think I was meant to be fast

Amazing, exceptionally clearly explained. Sincere appreciation I've never watched a KZread video that was so explicative and straightforward.🌺💚

Question: Can I still use the hard drive for storing other files after I'm done with this process?

@itsPAIN

4 жыл бұрын

I was wondering too lmk if u find out

@phoenixstormjr.1018

3 жыл бұрын

After flashing the USB drive and installing windows you CAN store other files on it HOWEVER after you install windows anything that used to be on the drive is now deleted. So make a backup then put them back on it.

i have a problem when i click "create installation media for another pc" and leave the default settings i click next and it doesn't give me a "which flash drive would you like to install windows on?" or a file selection it just says , "you need 8 gb free from (C:)" can someone help me?? ps i cant erase the 8 gb i need, they are computer files that i can't erase

@yonatand1230

4 жыл бұрын

in the previous step you need to choose "ISO File"

Amazing Guy you are Solved my problem i was Stacked in since 6 hours 🤨 Great info Thanks mate

Thanks for the tutorial. I couldn't select anything at the "please select the efi system partition" step and couldn't proceed. The solution was to create a second, smaller partition on the same disk in FAT32 format.

I did everything but my pc doesn’t recognize my old hdd as a storage device

@DatRitzBoi

4 жыл бұрын

You formatted your old HDD? That worked for me. If that doesn't work, what method did you use to connect your HDD to your Desktop/Laptop?

@erencan1453

3 жыл бұрын

@@DatRitzBoi but why should you format it? All your data would get lost. In my case I have a blue screen. Thats why I want to boot from an external ssd and access my data on my hdd. But I dont know if this is possible.....

Good explanation but maybe hit that screen first with a swifter before posting.

Four years later and this saved my girl's laptop. TNX

thank you for this video and i looove that outro music LOL

im selecting the destination disk but it keeps saying: sector size not supported.

@gusicwhite1201

7 жыл бұрын

Genuine windows 10 product key here:#plus.google.com/u/0/105400162842646727933

@mello-kn9gw

6 жыл бұрын

This is most likely because your usb drive is too small, I would not recommend installing windows on less than supported space but if you are trying to install a version like tiny7, this is how you do it. Right click on your WINTOUSB icon on desktop, and click open file location. It will take you to the bin folder in the wintousb install. Now right click on WinToUSB.ini, go to open with, and select notepad. Go to MinimumVHDSize and it will most likely say something like =16 edit that to whatever the size of your usb is and save notepad may prompt you to resave the file so do that. After that, open WINTOUSB and it sould work, I am sorry that I am a little late, but I hope this helped, thank you -Aidan

@mello-kn9gw

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry I made a mistake, go to notepad on your start menu, right click it, open it as administartor, drag WinToUSB.ini into it -Aidan

@YeahNoyeah

6 жыл бұрын

Fusionz C what external HDD you used

You forgot to mention that WinToUSB requires activation/payment to install Windows 10 Pro. Kind of a deal breaker for this whole approach.

@ManojKr-rb8jz

4 жыл бұрын

use 3.5 version www.filehorse.com/download-wintousb/29521/download/

@masonmccann3428

4 жыл бұрын

@@ManojKr-rb8jz what do i do itnsays it does nit support hvdx

Very neat explanation. This procedure still works (October 2021) with minor adaptations.

This has helped me a lot thanks man 👊🏽

what happens to the data in your current internal HDD? is it still there or is it lost ?

@Jacob-tp1ue

4 жыл бұрын

It is still there, and no changes are made. The computer will just boot from a different drive until your change it back.

I like how he is fast acting like we did it before

@HaikuNW

3 жыл бұрын

We did

@CosmicFox2007

3 жыл бұрын

youtube has a slow down option

This method still works as I was having problems with my corrupted internal SSD on my Amazon pre-built Desktop by CyberpowerPC, and I had to use another storage device, which happens to be the Samsung Portable SSD T5 1TB. Thank you MicrowaveSam for this simple tutorial. FYI I had to buy a license for WinToUSB because the option of Keeping the Same Partition is not available for the free version. BUT!!!! It is worth buying $29.95 for a method that is foolproof compared to having to buy a completely getup or build to fix a windows booting problem. Again, thank you SAM!!!!

I like how he's proud of his 500 Gb drive

@post_low

4 жыл бұрын

Well this was 2017

@xstrakooldude25

4 жыл бұрын

@@post_low Exactly.

@blameableemu

4 жыл бұрын

I like how youre snobby about the size of his hardware seems like youre compensating

@post_low

4 жыл бұрын

@@blameableemu dude it's really not that big of deal it's just that now 500 is pretty standard, even most computers you buy pre made have about a terabyte, honestly seems like you're compensating for something by trying to be on some sort of high horse in a KZread comment

@JonahFried.

4 жыл бұрын

It used to be expensive, shut up if you don’t know.

very good ... well done just one comment as I had troubles to go to Next after I reach min 7:10 if you stuck and the Next button not active you need to delete the partition convert the USB drive to MBR partition scheme and create the system and boot partitions. The system partition must be FAT32 format and the boot partition must be NTFS format. • Booting BIOS-based computers: Please convert the USB drive to MBR partition scheme and create the system and boot partitions. The system partition can be FAT32 or NTFS format and the boot partition must be NTFS format. The system partition and boot partition can be the same partition. • Booting UEFI-based computers: Please convert the USB drive to GPT partition scheme and create the EFI system partition (ESP)and boot partition. The EFI system partition must be FAT32 format and the boot partition must be NTFS format www.easyuefi.com/resource/convert-gpt-to-mbr.html for more details

@biancalexa22

6 жыл бұрын

how do you do any of this?

@grrinc

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Yasser, that was great help.

@lestermendez1584

5 жыл бұрын

you are a unsung HERO my friend!!!!thank you soo much!

Nice video tutorial. Just want to ask if i installed fresh OS on external sdd and want to replace my existing hdd, do you i need to re-install all the necessary drivers for my laptop? Bluetooth, wifi, etc.

The people that dislike this video are computer shops and those that want to charge for this info, LAMES! Thank you sir excellent tutorial!! Thumbs Up!!!!!

how do you get in bios on the windows 10 installed on usb

@kumchovul4o

5 жыл бұрын

The bios is not part of the Operation System. :)

@jacko_tobacco3804

5 жыл бұрын

rip

for me its stuck at 0 percent

@fifimania6117

4 жыл бұрын

i know i m late 2 years but for the other people who are going to watch it s gonna stay at 0 percent for 5 minutes but then it will go(in about 15-20 min or sp it will be ready)

4 жыл бұрын

@@fifimania6117 thank you

Awesome video you saved my day you talk my kind of talk. Understood completely what you were saying I did your steps and was successful . Thanks for a great presentation

You Rock! straight forward and concise. Thank you.

not letting me hit next at 7:38

@bassvalmonte4722

6 жыл бұрын

same. any answer to this?

@taylorbentley8671

6 жыл бұрын

BluD same

@OdinNass

6 жыл бұрын

First you need to close wintousb, and open cmd in admin mode. After that typy diskpart in cmd. Then type "list disk" then select your external drive example if your drive is number 2 type "select disk 2" then type "clean" after that, exit cmd and right click computer, click manage, go to disk management. Then you'll need to initilize your disk to "mbr" and not "guid" then you'll format the drive as shown in video and it will work

@leon-y

6 жыл бұрын

Actually, what I did was that my hard drive wasn't formatted into NTFS. You go to disk manager and format your disk to NTFS, and the "next" button will show.

@Ash-kr4oz

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the help man , it worked for me

Thx rice gum great video

@harrison8013

5 жыл бұрын

lol

@Ethorbit

5 жыл бұрын

lmao nice

The one video that actually worked for me. Thank you so much!

@ishpretty4217

3 жыл бұрын

does it still work? can i still install updates on it??

Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!

Great video I would change the link to the 3.5 version to allow windows 10 without paying. Also add the fact that the drive will need to be converted to mbr if it is gpt... go to manage delete volume and right click disk then convert to mbr then format drive in ntfs.... Link for 3.5 filehippo.com/download_wintousb/73839/

@bassam7627

4 жыл бұрын

colton boomer best comment ever!!!!

@fabriziocarboni976

4 жыл бұрын

colton boomer with yr tips i resolve!!! tanks

Most KZread tutorials suck - I am glad your video is the exception. This still works as of 7/30/21. Thank you so much!

Super helpful thank you so much!! Can I then insert this external drive (actually a SATA SSD connected through usb) into my laptop and boot normally?

I gave it a shot and can confirm this works. Thank you so much ❤️

Thank you very much for the useful information mate. Who else danced along with the melody?

Great video! Would this work as an alternative method to install Windows 10 on a computer which I can’t boot from USB? I plan to remove the hard drive, use a laptop and a hard drive dock to install windows to it and replace the hard drive back to the computer.

Even now, this video has helped me get into my Razer blade 14 (2014) and you now have an extra sub! Thanks again!!

can you install this on one pc and use the external for another pc. MY laptop Sata ports are broken and it wont detect any hhd.

worked perfectly thank you my friend also I had that same laptop before the motherboard stopped working on me

Thank you for your superb step by step guide, to the T, This was fantastic

Why can’t I find this video before this is so helpful I really love your step by step instruction. Can you help me with the part where you open WinToUsb then select the file icon why do you click on the folder instead of the Window ISO you installed I supper thanks. Really help

Nice tutorial, worked for me. First time build so thanks for the help

Many thanks and blessings to you good sir. After battling with the orcs in bios I was able to follow your instructions and with great relief I was one step closer. You are the true King!

Need to try this. It'll be a great way to back up files for the laptop.

your voice is so calming.. and the video is very helpful, thanks man

I'm using this vid to install windows 10 home on an external ssd sandisk for use on an 'atari vcs' (the new one ofc). I followed the vid precisely, but wintousb did ask me how I wanted to format the drive (and gave me like 4 options). I chose the first one on the left (since that seemed to be the default). I had already formatted the drive exactly how you showed. We'll see how it goes. :) Thanks for making the vid.

Good video and thx a lot ! May I know need a keygen for installation WINDOWS 10 PRO BY Win to usb ?

Thankx you so much for great explain ..thankx again from India

Thank you for this video man. Really appreciate it!

When choosing the disk I want to install its saying "already has a version of windows installed or the same name file has been existed, please format the destination partition and retry" but its already formatted.

Easy to follow. Thanks you for the knowledge.