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How to Install Windows 10 on External USB Hard Drives

We all know about bootable Linux Live CD/DVD ISO images  that we can use just by booting off the respective media. We can also create USB media using these Live ISO images. There are many popular Linux distributions that offer these Live images such as Mint Linux or Ubuntu. But not many people know that we can also have a full featured Windows 10 installation on a USB pendrive or USB hard drive.…

How to Create Custom Windows 10 Installation ISO with NTLite

The installation discs for Windows 10 provided by Microsoft packs all the components for all kinds of computers. But we do not really use all the components all the time. In fact, the first thing some of us do is remove or disable some of the things. For example, I install Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox browser as soon as Windows installation is finished. With the help of an ingenious tool…

How to Install Windows 10 from an External Hard Drive

It so happened this week that my old favorite USB 3.0 pendrive stopped working. I have used it to install Windows a zillion times. I have USB 2.0 pendrives but they are very slow when copying or reading files. So I decided to use my external hard drive as the installation media to install Windows 10 on my new laptop. Here  are the steps I took to successfully install Windows 10 using an external…

ReactOS is an open source operating system that is designed to binary equivalent of Microsoft Windows. You can run almost any Windows application inside ReactOS without having to depend on emulators. In other words, it can be said that ReactOS is an open source version of Windows itself. It supports FAT and NTFS file systems so you can access your Windows formatted storage devices easily. The…

Make Bootable ISO Image from a Bootable USB Drive

There are dozens of different tools like Rufus that can take a bootable Windows ISO image file and then can create a bootable USB drive using this ISO image. These bootable USB drives are faster and are very helpful in installing Windows to notebook computers that do not come with any DVD drive. But what if you want to do the reverse? If you have a bootable USB drive with Windows installation…

WindowsToUSB Lite: Create Bootable Windows Installation USB Media

I recently bought a new notebook computer from Amazon for casual everyday use, but it  does not have any DVD drive. I thought a small screen notebook would be great to carry around and use anywhere I wanted – what I did not know that they will say goodbye to DVD writer in order to make the notebook small and light-weight. Actually this is pretty common these days for the laptops specially the…

WinUSB : Create Windows Installation USB Disk Without Formatting It

The optical disk drives have started to disappear from the newer desktop computers and specially from some of the notebook computers. Now the faster, cheaper and compacter USB flash keys have completely replaced all the other types of disks that were used for carrying files from one computer to another. And now the USB flash keys are also being used for even the Windows installation too. Over the…

Windows ISO Downloader : Easily Download Windows 10 ISO Images Legally

We have already published about how Microsoft allows (legally allows) to download the Windows installation media ISO images through their Techbench program. With the help of Techbench, you can download latest version of Windows 10 ISO images to your PC every time you need to install Windows fresh on your computer. Even though the Techbench website is very easy to use itself, if you want things to…