How To Run Windows From USB Drive - Windows To Go (Feat. ADATA SD700 Review)

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Official Microsoft Windows 10 Download Utility - microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10
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Although you can find all of this in the video itself, and even more in details, I've created a written guide so you can more easily copy those longer DOS commands!

1. Download Windows 10 ISO using Microsoft's Utility and create bootable USB stick using that same utility or Rufus program.

2. Make the second drive (one from which you're going to run Windows as a final product) an "active" one. You can do that by opening up command prompt (type CMD in Win run / search) as an administrator, then type in order;

● diskpart ► hit enter
● list disk - hit enter
● select disk x ► "x" being your drive number, hit enter
● clean ► hit enter
● create partition primary ► hit enter
● select partition 1 ► hit enter
● active ► hit enter
● exit ► hit enter

3. Open up the command prompt (type CMD in Win run / search) as an administrator so you can Extract install.esd to install.wim file. Navigate to your bootable USB stick (from the 1. point) to the "sources" folder and use following commands, type in order;

● dism /Get-WimInfo /WimFile:install.esd ► hit enter
● dism /export-image /SourceImageFile:install.esd /SourceIndex:1 /DestinationImageFile:install.wim /Compress:max /CheckIntegrity ► hit enter

Wait for it to completely finish, it can take a while.

4. Open up GImageX, go under "Apply" tab, choose under "Source" folder the "install.wim" file which we've just created on that bootable USB stick in that "sources" folder. For "Destination" choose your other USB drive, the final product on which will GImageX do a complete and final installation of the Windows.

5. Lastly, you need to create a bootable set of instructions for that second drive. Open up the command prompt (type CMD in Win run / search) as an administrator, navigate to that drive (check under which drive letter it is), to its "System32" folder (it's under "Windows" folder, so "cd windows/system32) and type in the following command;

●bcdboot.exe X:\Windows /s X: /f ALL ► "X" being the drive letter for that drive, if it's for example "E" drive, put an E instead of it, like so ● bcdboot.exe E:\Windows /s E: /f ALL ► hit enter

That's it!

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