Windows 10 on external drive

chili · 2 Aug 2015 at 11:04

As above i have downloaded and placed win 10 setup on a usb drive, i own an alienware laptop which has a few dell drivers and takes ages to setup, as its all running nice i am rather reluctant to risk installing win10, however i was wondering would i be able to hook up an external drive and install win10 to that, would i then be able to boot from this drive and run win10 that way or would some parts of my laptops main drive still be written too?

cheers

linktoinsanity · 2 Aug 2015 at 11:32

Why not make an image using Clonezilla/Macrium Reflect or something similar and then try the upgrade?

Skeeter · 2 Aug 2015 at 11:39

The Windows 10 upgrade is an upgrade. It won't clean install onto a separate drive.

You need to run it over your current install, and it should pick up the drivers fine. But as said, take a backup and then try it.

chili · 2 Aug 2015 at 12:35

cheers for the replies, i have found out via google that my alienware r3 will have problems with the windows 10 upgrade and will not be supported by dell, apparently there are a lot of unhappy r3 users out there (old r3 not new r3)
i made a backup using AOMEI backup, however i think for now i will skip the upgrade, i may upgrade my new stand alone at some stage.