However, this may not be true for all operating systems. Installing Windows OS on an external hard drive is very similar to installing Windows or any other operating system on an internal hard drive. The disk provides the user with options for deleting and overwriting partitions. You need to make sure the Windows 10 pen drive you have is bootable, not just the ISO saved to it. Locate your portable hard drive in Disk Management and right-click it. Choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
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Make sure the capacity of your target external hard drive is larger than the total size of your boot and system partition. You may use Disk Management to delete the external hard drive partition. If you have difficulty in deleting partitions, you can ask free partition manager for help. Step 2. Locate and right-click the external hard drive in the Disk Management, select "Delete Volume Step 3.
Click "Yes" to permit Windows 10 to delete the selected partition in the external hard drive. After the operation, the external hard drive will turn to an unallocated space without a drive letter on it. By now, the external hard drive is ready to install Windows Step 1.
Expand the menu and click "System Clone" in the lower position. On the "System clone" window, the software will choose the system partition and boot partition by default. Just Choose the USB drive as the destination disk. Click "Proceed". After the cloning process is over, you can safely plug the USB drive out. To boot the cloned system from the USB drive on other Windows devices, just connect the drive to the device.
After the connection, wait for the computer configuring system settings and you will finally arrive at the desktop screen that's exactly the same with that of the cloned system.
Put the "username" and "password" of the cloned system.
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