Windows on external drive

[fiberzs is dad]

So i was running my pc off a external usb hardrive for a year coming up on 2. Today suddenly it stopped working i think i may have shut it off during an update without me knowing. Haven't been able to boot so i wiped the drive and proceed to try and reinstall windows. It tells me i cant download windows to a ubs hardrive i didn't have this problem the first time around. Thanks! 

[JJCooper_]

Try installing it to an internal drive. External drives are much slower on usb, unlike the faster Sata and NVMe. Maybe you didn't format the drive properly???

[Parideboy]

If i'm not mistaken, it was a limitation introduced with later releases.

 

https://www.minitool.com/news/you-cant-install-windows-on-usb.html

 

Is this the error you're getting? I don't know if the solution above works or not.

What I would do is grab an old windows iso prior to this limitation, install it and update from there. Unfortunately, I can't recall on which build this happened.

Other tools used to offer this feature (such as Rufus, the first that comes to mind)  but dropped support for it for this reason

[fiberzs is dad]

2 minutes ago, Parideboy said:

If i'm not mistaken, it was a limitation introduced with later releases.

 

https://www.minitool.com/news/you-cant-install-windows-on-usb.html

 

Is this the error you're getting? I don't know if the solution above works or not.

What I would do is grab an old windows iso prior to this limitation, install it and update from there. Unfortunately, I can't recall on which build this happened.

Other tools used to offer this feature (such as Rufus, the first that comes to mind)  but dropped support for it for this reason

i will try thank you