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SSD to USB3 bootable drive

AndreasAyal
By AndreasAyal
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Hi!

I recently bought a new laptop with an M.2 SATA SSD with Windows 10. I'm personally on Team Penguin, but like using Windows for the odd video game once in a blue moon. However the SSD is a little too small for a dual boot partition (for my tastes) and it being a laptop, it doesn't have the possibility to have multiple drives.

Inspired by LTT's "Build Your Own SUPER FAST Thumb Drive!" video, I got the "amazing" idea to simply take out the SSD sitting in the laptop (from here on, it will be called SSD 1), replace it with a bigger SSD (from here on, SSD 2) and then place SSD 1 in the SilverStone enclosure (or some other enclosure, for that matter).

The idea is to have SSD2 contain my Linux install, and when I want to run Windows, I slip in the USB "drive" and let the laptop boot from USB.

 

Is there any reason why this would not work?

Thanks!

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