Full system on USB 3.0+

[kajar9]

I know you can make bootable operating systems, but can you do full OS install on USB?
I know it's dangerous (data loss, usb stick moving around losing connection whatever).
But today we have 128GB USB sticks, that are fast-ish (250MB/s|50MB/s)

I mean like full filesystem, registry, storage... the whole shabang.
Basically running a full windows system with storage without any harddrive.
Only my 128GB usb drive

[Arty]

windows has a feature called

Windows To Go

 

 

so yes you can and it is safe

[RollinLower]

windows has a feature called

Windows To Go

 

 

so yes you can and it is safe

i believe windows to go only supports USB 2.0 and 3.0 up to 32GB. so no less and no more than that.

i might be wrong tough!

[Arty]

i believe windows to go only supports USB 2.0 and 3.0 up to 32GB. so no less and no more than that.

i might be wrong tough!

i think thats right

but it just means that is is safe to cutom install on usb

[HappySkyPoodle]

It's very easy to make a Linux LiveUSB. Actually, I used to get in trouble at school for using booting Linux on the school PCs.

 

The biggest problem with USB sticks is that they have a limited number of write cycles and (with very few exceptions) don't support TRIM. Cheap ones die fairly quickly.

[kajar9]

windows has a feature called

Windows To Go

 

 

so yes you can and it is safe

I'll try that out in a bit