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Absolutely! Let me dig it up, and I'll get back to you. OP will deliver, I promise!
EDIT: Since my other post may get buried, I'll deliver here:
Here you are! OP has delivered!
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Make sure if you plan on using a USB 3.0 setup like me, you use Windows 8 or up. In fact, just don't do this with Windows 7. Stay with 8. Initially, they didn't provide support for Windows 7. Win 7 doesn't natively support USB 3, and configuring it to boot from USB 3 might suck.
This is also a Windows application, so you will need a Windows machine, or I did it on a Windows 8 VM.
As for the controller, just install the Windows 8 Xbox One drivers, and connect it via a mini usb cable.
With link below, you can install windows on an external hard drive or even usb3 stick, and boot from it. You can install windows 10 on a 90 day trial basis without needing a key.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Dead easy to do and works well.
Linux has a tool called wine that might do the trick
Just use Portable windows 8.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
This allows you to put a fully working version of windows 8 on a USB 2.0/3.0 drive and boot it from any machine. It stores your programs and settings, Simply overrides with new drivers every startup. Because of this I suggest you put it on an SSD.
In fact you can make the drive with a USB enclosure, then remove it. You can boot it from SATA Internally from any system (Faster read and write times through SATA, USB 3.0 is finicky in contrast due to drivers at startup.) Thing being if you boot it from SATA, It must always boot from SATA. Same goes for USB.
I typically use this for anything. Especially when your wondering if something is hardware or software, Or if a wipe would fix the issue or not. Boot some portable 8 and run Heavyload, Bam its the ram or a popped capacitor, Or its software, You know right away. This thing has been my life long dream in IT, It's the ultimate rescue environment! You can easily boot into desktops and transfer their files across the Gigabit network while scanning their drive for viruses with all the tools preinstalled and updated at all times. You can easy install doom and your emulators and run them during service calls!......Ok maybe dont do that...... ;)
Yes, it's possible. I run Windows 10 on a USB flash drive on my Mac, and it could boot from SD card also. I used this tool: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
As others have said, you'll need a very fast card for good performance.
This is the tool that I use to create the on the go install I keep on my keychain: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
I highly advise to invest in a Vistiontek pocket SSD or other usb 3.0 usb due to the fact that normal usb's will take ages to boot the install and you will come across usability issues.
Yes, but you should do it on a USB stick you don't mind getting damaged, because the constant reads and writes wear it out much faster. (it'll still take a very long time, no matter how much you use it).
For Windows, use WinToUSB.
For Linux, you can just boot from the install media on your PC with your USB stick plugged in and install it there just like a regular internal hard drive (just make sure you install the bootloader to the USB stick too).
For Ubuntu, there's an easier way compared to other Linux distributions: use Universal USB Installer (Google it), and while following the steps in the wizard, select to create a persistent storage area.
That is why you have passwords to prevent people doing what you want to do!
You could create a bootable usb drive (a 32GB usb stick works even) on another pc and boot his pc from that using
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
This way, you are not using his windows 10 install but you can still see files on his drive which you can delete by accident. If you ever decided to do this, install macrium reflect free on another pc, create a rescue drive, boot from it and make an image backup of his pc first.
Really not worth the hassle if your father is prepared to give you his password.
It is possible, and actually quite easy, using
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
However, the sd card needs to be inserted into a usb card reader.
It will not work direct from an sd card reader.
As an SD card counts as a 'removeable' drive, so you can only have one partition on it readable from Windows.
This means it will only work as a legacy bios install.
TBH: it is better to use a fast usb stick eg San Cruzer Extreme, anyway.
Even if you set up SD card as above, the issue is licensing, as you would need a separate licence for each pc. Also, I am sceptical it would work on a mac anyway.
Surely virtual machines are an easier solution?
This solution might not be for you, but I thought I'd mention it anyway: You can trivially run Windows off an USB drive these days, and from my experience doing it from a SSD in an external USB 3.0 enclosure works quite decent. I run my gaming installation on my rMBP this way.
You can install Windows to USB by using WinToUSB.
Just create a portable windows 8 drive. Take SSD or HDD and use this tool. http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
You can use a USB 3.0 drive enclosure, Or if you want to hook it to anything at all you can simply take it out of the enclosure after installation and plug it into a free sata on the board. You can connect and disconnect to pretty much any computer with sata (Even more so if you use 32-bit windows 8). You can run pretty much anything you can think of, It's the ultimate rescue environment. Im thinking about writing a guide cause it's a commonly asked for thing.
Shouldn't be an issue, but I'd only do this if you have USB 3. Just create a partition on the external (assuming you don't want to use it all) and install Windows on it using WinToUSB.
When booting your Mac hold in the command key and select the external.
It's been a while, but I believe I used WinToUSB to get it installed on a USB3.0 SSD. USB3 is pretty much a must if you want to run an OS decently from usb, and surprisingly, the SSD runs at close to 90% of its potential, so something like 250MB/s.
It's not that hard actually, I did it myself:
Create 2 partitions on your eSSD, one being about 200MB and the other one as big as you want (rest of your disk). The 200MB partition is a FAT32 partition, I named it 'BOOT'. The other partition is a NTFS partition (I named it 'WINDOWS'). I recommend that you use windows for this part (I used windows in a virtual machine).
Install wintousb on a windows machine and select your windows iso (this must be done on a windows machine, but you can just run windows in a VM on your mac)
Connect your eSSD to the PC
In wintousb, the system partition is the 200MB partition, the boot partition is the large partition (confusing names imo)
When installed, copy the drivers for boot camp to your drive so you can install them. You can do this from in the boot camp assistant app on mac (source)
Plug in your eSSD and restart your mac, and hold the option key, then select your eSSD and proceed booting
Install windows and install the boot camp drivers
Enjoy
EDIT: details
I don't understand the point of this, but this might help:
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Try this, you will need to hook the SSD up over USB.
Why the fuck are you not using a virtual machine? Use some free Azure time to create a lab in the cloud? Amazon hosting? VPN + VirtualBox? So many questions...
i didn't do it that way what i did was use a virtual machine (bootcamp would be fine too) download an app for windows called WintoUSB and it shows you how to install on an external disk on their site. WinToUSB
I just installed windows 10 on an external 256gb SSD. I'm not particularly tech-savvy, but it was fairly easy, and so far works well.
I plugged the SSD into a computer running Windows and partitioned space on the SSD (is that a thing? - I did it under Disk Management on Windows).
Downloaded the Windows ISO.
Then I used http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/ to install Windows on the SSD.
Put the proper bootcamp drivers on a flash drive
Plugged the SSD into my mac. Turn it on, and hold alt so you can choose the SSD.
Windows installs, but a lot of stuff wont work. So you plug in the USB with the bootcamp drivers on it and install those.
Restart Windows.
After that, no problems. I've had a noticeable increase in performance. As some other people have mentioned, I can't speak to longevity. But I'm running out of room on my MBP and this is the cheapest solution without having to buy an entirely new computer.
By default it'll refuse to install to anything connected over USB, but there are ways around it, either by using the Windows Automated Installation Kit as described in this article http://www.intowindows.com/how-to-install-windows-7-to-usb-external-hard-drive-must-read/, or if using 8/10, by creating a Windows to Go image using WinToUSB.
>The only advantage of the enclosure is that the cheap mobos I'm looking at don't support raid, so I figured it might reduce load times, but I guess that depends on whether the interface is a bottleneck or not.
RAID 0 on an enclosure will probably be a little faster, USB 3.0 / eSATA II or III shouldn't be a bottleneck, but the controller chip used in the enclosure might be. That said, I'd prefer keeping it simple over slightly improved performance, if you want fast, get an SSD.
I have an ssd as an internal drive but can boot from an external drive.
I do not see how external drive being an ssd can affect things as you are going via a usb interface.
Just checking - you are talking about booting from usb drive using wintousb
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
not just creating a bootable usb installation stick?
I do not quite follow what you are doing with external ssd - you would create wintousb directly not via a usb stick.
I have no idea how this works with a mac either.
It is highly unlikely taking a ssd from a pc and putting in a laptop will work as it will not have the right drivers etc.
If you have reasonable capacity usb stick, you could create a bootable usb of windows 10 using wintousb
You would need to change bios to use legacy boot if it is a more modern uefi boot laptop.
Alternatively if you have a external usb hard-drive, you could install it on that and it will boot from a eufi system. now/)/
IN EITHER CASE DRIVE WILL BE WIPED SO BACK UP ANY DATA ELSEWHERE FIRST.
This actually works very well and is easy to do. I used to use it on W10 previews.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
ok the w10 version won't activate but will work for 30 days.
I recently looked into this myself so here's what I think:
First, I also tried the guide, but could not get it to work although others seem to have had more success. Ultimately, I did step 2 to prepare my external drive and then used the free version of WinToUSB (link) to install Windows directly onto the drive. You can also use it to clone a Windows partition if you have that up and running already. The only caveat here is that you need to have Windows installed for this method.
Second, try to see if you can get it to work before you buy anything. It's performance will be much slower, but you can get it to work any thumb drive or external hard drive that you or a friend might have lying around.
Third, in my opinion, you don't need spend 300 (dollars?). A decent 4k random write speed of the drive is all you need. I went with the 64GB Sandisk Extreme CZ80 because it fit my criteria of using only 1 USB port, being cheap (€40) and having best-in-class speeds (link). I would look into the Samsung portable SSD T1 if you need more storage than that. They are still very affordable, offer plenty of storage, and have about 4 times the 4k random write speed of the Sandisk (link).
I hope this helps!
Ah! Gotcha...
I've been meaning to try out WinToUSB at some point. Lifehacker has a simplified guide to setting this up.
Here you are! OP has delivered!
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Make sure if you plan on using a USB 3.0 setup like me, you use Windows 8 or up. In fact, just don't do this with Windows 7. Stay with 8. This is also a Windows application, so you will need a Windows machine, or I did it on a Windows 8 VM.
This is probably not what you asked for but you can create a Windows installation on an USB hard disk with this software so the installation is portable on the USB hard disk.
It's definitely a fiddly process, but it's possible.
If you've got a Windows license key the easiest way is probably with Win2USB:
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
I'm not sure what the real difference between the paid and free version is as the free one doesn't seem to have any limitations and works fine for both creation of brand new installations or cloning existing Windows instances to a Windows to Go drive.
Although you can also do it manually (follow the instructions for Windows 8, the process is the same.)
http://tweaks.com/windows/52279/how-to-create-a-windows-to-go-usb-drive/
It is possible to do, but not exactly configured in the way you would like.
You can create a Windows to Go drive which should work in a mac, as well as many other computers, but you need a running windows machine to make it, and a Windows10 pro (preferably) iso.
I have used a tool called win2usb to create one, onto the 32gb version of this drive. Which works well for me to use as a means to diagnose issues with computers, and to use to recover data from failing computers. But I would not recommend it to be used as a daily thing due to the poor reliability of flash drives.
Which model drive are you planning on using?
i made it. I use a soft call WintoUSB : http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
But i now return to a bootcamp partition because i can launch it with parallele desktop from OSX (macOS ieuk) and i don't have to carry my flash drive around.
Generally yes (only with the motherboard since that is what the key is linked to), but one trick I use to be able to have the same install work across multiple machines; i.e a portable usb version of windows on one of my pocket SSD's, is to use wintousb and install the OS using that via a dock for the drive (there is wintohdd which should do the same but without the need to dock the drive).
After that I just use AOMEI Backupper to clone the install drive to each machine I need it on.
I've used http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/ to install my win10 on external SSD box. (Windows doesn't support external SSD installations.). After some time, I wanted to put my SSD back into PC internally, that's when the things were changed. Here is the activation tab (in Slovak language) http://prntscr.com/ank7xh. It says it can't contact activation servers and activation fails instantly.
As opposed to probably a lot of these other comments, I have actually done this and am very happy with the results. Windows will not let you install on the USB normally, so I used this program: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
No complaints. I can boot from multiple devices no problem, and am so ng to try it with a surface if/when I get one.
I used WinToUSB (sorry it is an Windows application - http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/) to create a portable Windows 10 on a 120 GB SSD, which I carry around in an USB 3.0 case. I can boot it up from my Mac Mini in like 20 seconds and run my games. I don't notice any issues with it, as long as you don't try downloading and playing a game at the same time. I don't want to split my Macintosh HD into two parts, so this was a perfect solution for me.
Windows to go requires special flash drives which are treated like a fixed rather than removeable drive and are quite expensive.
However, you can use the following link to create a bootable version of Windows 10 on a normal flash drive.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
As normal flash drives can only have one partition, the drives are setup in a legacy bios mode (as a vhd). So pc has to be able to boot as a legacy bios pc.
However according to this post on the wintousb forum,you can only do this on a mac if flash drive is eufi based. So you either need to buy a win2go flash drive or use an usb hdd (or sdd).
http://www.easyuefi.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=236
Personally, I would buy an ssd/hdd and a usb caddy with much more capacity and much cheaper.
If you buy a Win to go usb drive, you can set it up as an eufi install but these are more expensive! Normal usb sticks cannot be used for eufi installs.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
The vhd is not a virtual install like hyperv or virtual box. It is simply an emulation of a disk drive.
It should not affect the speed of operation that much - it is more the native disk speed of the usb drive. You should use a high speed stick like san cruzer extreme usb3.
TBH - it is better to use say SSD in a usb3 caddy and do it as an eufi install if possible. This may be cheaper than a win to go drive.
There is another lesser known but great option ie create a bootable usb drive with 10 on it. I used this method myself
This is actually the best option without actually installing on PC, as it tests all the native drivers and interfaces (unlike a VM).
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
This is a good method for anybody wanting to try it first. Will even work on a usb stick, in legacy bios mode but need a fast stick.
Windows 8 and 10 have much superior driver support than 7.
If you really want to see if it works ok, create a bootable usb drive with 10 on it using wintousb.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Use the standard iso from MS - it will not activate, but you can try it for 30 days.
You can use a 32 GB usb stick, but unless a special windows 2 go usb stick, it will only work if pc is in legacy bios mode. A usb hard drive will work in eufi mode.
virtual machines are good for testing but have limitations especially graphics etc.
If you really want a good way to test 10 create a bootable usb drive with it using WINTOUSB.
A better and safe test would be to use win to go and create an external bootable hdd with windows 10 on it, so it uses the graphics drivers directly rather than the emulated graphics in a vm.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Aternatively, you could shrink main partition by say 30 GB, and install 10 in the unallocated space temporarily creating a dual boot PC.
Another way is to make a full backup image of current pc (good plan anyway), upgrade and if issues restore backup image.
http://www.howtogeek.com/223139/how-to-create-an-image-of-your-pc-before-upgrading-to-windows-10/
You are aware you need a separate licence for Windows 10 inside any virtual machine?
I used VMWare with the preview builds, and it was fine.
You may find this approach of interest.
Create a bootable usb hard drive with Windows 10 using wintousb
see
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
This is a better test than using a VM, as you do not have any emulation issues to worry about, and really works well.
As an added bonus, you can use it on other PCs as well ie is portable.
I gave up using VMs for W10 previews and used this instead.
You still need a licence though.
Wrong!
See
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
You will need a licence of course
Not much point in making an external usb disk dual boot - just use separate disks. It may be possible with wintousb but I don't know.
Rather than dual booting, two other options are:
1) create a bootable 8.1 usb hard disk drive using wintousb.
http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
You can install on a usb flash drive but unless you buy a windows to go Win 8 certified usb stick (expensive) you will have to boot in legacy mode on a eufi pc.
This is very easy to setup.
2) install w8.1 or 7 in a virtual machine. may not work with your company interface
In either case, you still need a separate licence, as you would with a dual boot pc.
Still not what im talking about. Im using Portable windows 8, Its not a PE environment. It's a fully functioning operating system that simply rips its drivers on every shutdown and reinstalls new ones. Allows you to move your hard drive to multiple computers and boot a fully functioning version of 8 to run repairs from. You can make it work with 7 as well, I just havent cared to.
Linux and Windows 8 support running off a flash drive better. If you wanted to try using windows 7, you could try using WintoUSB. Just keep in mind that windows 7 doesn't support running from a usb 3.0 port, you will be stuck with the slower 2.0. Linux shouldn't be that hard to use, but it may be worth it to try Windows 7 first because you are already familiar with it. Read this: http://www.intowindows.com/download-wintousb/
WinToUSB works great if you have a fast enough drive on usb3 ... It technically works with usb2 or a slower thumb drive too, but that experience will be unpleasant.
There's probably a way to do a normal install onto a USB drive ... maybe install on a local drive, clone that to external and use supergrub to boot it? ... there may be easier ways too.
I just booted the Windows 10 Preview on Mac mini from a USB hard drive.
It wasn't my intention to ever run it on the Mac. I wanted to experiment with it on a PC. It wouldn't install directly on the external drive. When I tried, it explicitly stated it would not install to USB and/or Firewire devices.
However, there is an incredibly nifty program called WinToUSB that will take a Windows ISO and get things going on a USB drive. I ran across some complicated recipes for making this work, but WinToUSB made it as simple as one could imagine. http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
It might require re-partioning the drive to make this work on the OP's existing drive.
I used http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/ to install windows on an external SSD with USB 3.0 and I used it to play video games on my retina mbp late 2013. Is much better than OS X performance wise, and the process is easy to do.
Yes, you can even run windows from an external drive as a portable OS to use on any machine you need to work with using http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/ or use https://rufus.akeo.ie/ to setup a bootable usb for single iso installations or http://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/ for multiple iso setups.
I had a similar issue with this once where my computer would semi go offline and WoW would work as normal but would not let me do anything that required a loading screen. In my case i had a failing network card and a lot of the ports would "turn off" but not enough to DC me. I would start by checking the ports that WoW uses in your firewall settings.
I'm also a little curious about something. If you know how. Would you be able to partition your hard drive and give it about 80 GB of a new partition and install a clean copy of windows on it? I wonder if WoW would run cleanly on a clean install. (seriously don't mess around with partitioning your main drive or any drive with important data unless you 100% know what you are doing) If you don't want to mess around with your main drive you could always put windows on an external hard drive with a tool called WinToUSB.
Any luck so far? Your system doesn't seem to be an aged one, but still if all else fails I suggest you check if AOM EE runs in a clear OS environment on the same computer. What I mean, grab a USB stick or drive and install "live" Win7 on it (links to guides below). Then boot from the stick, install steam and AOM. Also, make sure you install the latest driver for video card (you mentioned Radeon HD 7660G). See if it works. If it does, it means that your regular system has software conflicts or some other problems that prevent normal operation (at least in some cases).
Live Win7 installer: http://www.easyuefi.com/wintousb/
Guide: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-run-a-portable-version-of-windows-from-a-usb-dri-1565509124