Windows from a USB stick?

farq2

farq2

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Guys,

I cant find the answer on here so hoping you can help.

Can you run windows from a decent sized usb3 stick? I am looking as i have a gaming rig and wanna leave that alone. So adding another bootable windows without interfereing with the gaming rig settings / hdd is ideal.

If it can be done any ideas / tips.

Stu
 
Short answer? No, it cannot be done. Too many things are read from and written to on the OS drive that it would kill a flash drive quickly and be epic slow.

What are you trying to achieve by doing this?

A much better alternative would be to install Windows on a Virtual Machine and then just fire up the VM every time you want to use the OS for things other than gaming.

If you have Windows 7 Pro then XP Mode comes as standard with it, use that, it is fast and very good. Otherwise you can use VMWare Player, which is free, to install an OS of your choice after mounting the CD/DVD image within VMWare's settings.

I use the latter for Windows 8, Ubuntu and XP at the moment, works like a charm.
 
That's preloaded with apps and things though isn't it, you wouldn't be using it as a normal OS that you can do work and save to day in day out? That's what I meant with my post.
 
Windows doesn't really get slowed down by having other applications installed, well a few things may slow down a tad, but gaming performance won't be affected

You could create separate user accounts if you wanted to keep settings separate
 
farq2 said:
Guys,

I cant find the answer on here so hoping you can help.

Can you run windows from a decent sized usb3 stick? I am looking as i have a gaming rig and wanna leave that alone. So adding another bootable windows without interfereing with the gaming rig settings / hdd is ideal.

If it can be done any ideas / tips.

Stu
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Windows? No. Linux - perhaps.
 
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