You can often get into the BIOS setup by pressing the Delete or F2 keys repeatedly and immediately after turning the device on. Otherwise you'll have to change the drive order that the BIOS uses when it's looking for boot files.

If you're lucky there's a hot key you can press while the device is starting from a powered off state that will bring up a menu of which drive to boot from. Check the docs that came with the device or Google for the manual. 'How do I force a PC to look for Windows on a USB drive?'ĭepends on the PC/laptop/tablet. If you're talking about putting existing copies of WIn10 on a USB drive, right click the drive letter for the Windows partition in Explorer, select properties, and note the GB of used space. That said, a basic Win10 install, with Very minimal software, needs 32GB. In a way that question is moot, since to have anywhere near acceptable performance you need to run Win2Go from an SSD, & those commonly start at 120GB. ' How big (in bytes) does the USB drive need to be to create Win10 Home or Office on it? ' It's been a while but Win10 used to get those fairly regularly - it's anyone's guess whether that'll happen in the future because Win11. The exception is that Windows installed to a USB drive or VHD cannot / will not handle a version upgrade that requires a reinstall. 'Once Windows is set up and running and can see the internet, Windows Updates work as they normally do.' I can use a hot key during post to bring up a boot drive menu, a Win2Go drive uses the exact same Win10 you'd install normally, so no reason it needs to be limited to emergency situations. Running off an SSD the 2 main problems are 1) it can be a hassle to boot from USB, and 2) software Win10 auto-installs when it's used on some hardware can be incompatible with any other brand.

The original Win 2 Go idea, AFAIK, was to set up a copy of Win10 as you wanted/needed, and have that available using any PC/laptop. 'But booting from USB should never be considered a legitimate way to run windows on a daily basis.' The enclosures to put the SSD in start at $7 at Newegg. You can usually pick up a ~120GB SSD for ~$20, though Netac has been selling them for $14 on eBay. 'running off a USB drive is really slow.'Ī Win2Go drive using an SSD in a USB connected external housing runs almost as well as Windows on an internal drive.

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