On most systems, this works, but it can vary with your motherboard. Press the F2 key to open the BIOS interface. For that, turn off your computer and boot into the BIOS.

Once WinToUSB finishes copying Windows, it’s time to boot the disk.

Wait while WinToUSB copies data from Windows ISO to your SSD and makes it bootable.

If you want to enable BitLocker, then tick Enable BitLocker and enter the password for BitLocker encryption.

Wait while WindowsToUSB formats the external storage disk.

Select GPT for UEFI as a partition scheme and click on the yes button.

For this tutorial, I have selected Windows 11 Pro. Select whichever Windows version you want to install.

Open WinToUSB and locate the Windows 11 ISO File.

Steps to Install Windows on External SSD/Storage

I strongly recommend that you back up all the data before starting with this procedure. Speed can be an issue if you use any other USB storage than SSD.ĭo note that this guide involves the formatting of the external storage disk on which you are going to install the Windows.

It can probably result in the corruption of data.

It’s not as reliable as having Windows installed on an internal SSD.

Licensing problems might occur when you move the USB SSD between different machines.

Wintousb partition scheme