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Is it possible to copy Windows operating system from your laptop, desktop computer, HDD or SSD to a USB mass storage device, which is also called the mobile hard disk? Yes, of course, you can do it now! With the Windows OS copied to the mobile hard disk, you can reach your working computer system in any computer at home, in the office or on a business trip. In other words, your Windows OS is accessible anywhere with the removable hard disk. Another great benefit of copying Windows OS to the USB portable hard disk is that you can quickly boot the computer from this external hard drive when accidents happen to your computer original system, without the help of any additional tools! So, how can we copy operating system to WD USB protable hard disk? Let's go into details now!
iSunshare WinToGo Genius is the alternative software to Windows To Go feature, which allows users to create the portable Windows in external hard disk, such as WD Element hard disk, regardless of the Windows versions and editions. It is easy to copy the Windows OS to the USB disk with WinToGo Genius. You can refer the tutorial below.
Step 1: Plug the WD USB portable hard disk into your computer via the USB-to-SATA adapter. Then you can launch WinToGo Genius application.
Step 2: Select the WD USB portable hard disk as the destination and then you can choose to use the built-in PE file on your computer to create the PE.
Step 3:Hit the Start button and you will get the formatting tips. Click on the Yes button to proceed.
Step 4: The software will start to make PE on your WD external hard disk. After minutes, you can get the successful prompt.
After that, you need to restart the computer and make it boot from your WD external hard disk. Then iSunshare WinToGo genius will automatically copy the Windows OS to your USB disk and then create the identical system on the disk. You just need to leave the program alone and wait for the successful message. When it said "Successfully create the portable system", you can shutdown the software and then plug out the WD USB portable hard disk. In this way, no matter where you are, you can boot any Windows computer from this WD USB portable hard disk and get into your own Windows working environment.
In order to copy/clone Windows operating system to the WD Elements USB device, you need to download iSunshare CloneGo on your computer. It is the reliable Windows cloning software with the professional solutions to system copy and system backup.
Preparations:
Step 1: Launch iSunshare CloneGo. Click "Copy" in the top left corner. On the Copy window, you will get all the partitions detected by the software with details information. You can scroll Mouse to view the whole partitions from your computer hard drive, SSD and WD USB portable hard drive or more. Then, you can choose the Windows system partition (C drive) as the source partition.
Step 2: Here, you need to choose one volume from your USB mass storage device as the destination target.
Step 3: Click "Start" and you will get noticed by a new text box to warn you about the format of destination partition. Click "Yes" and iSunshare CloneGo will immediately start cloning your system OS partition to the USB drive.
After the Windows OS clone process is over, you can reboot the computer from USB hard disk to check whether it works or not.
Also, you can make good use of the Backup and Restore feature of iSunshare CloneGo. It is fast for you to create a backup of your Windows system partition. As for the Restore feature, you can only apply to restore the backup icg file created by this software. Everyone can have a try now as this software offers 7-day free trial of all features!
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