On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 02:18:17PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 05, 2016 at 11:04:00AM -0500, Blaise Alleyne wrote:
Only if you need regular access to Windows. If it's infrequent (i.e. just not brave enough to wipe it in case it might one day ever be needed), you could swap drives in that rare case when it's needed for something.
Or, will Windows 10 boot from an external USB drive? Hardware would be the same... I haven't used Windows since XP, so not sure if more recent control measures would freak out over that... If that's an option, you could just put the second drive in an external USB enclosure.
No it won't. At least not in general. I suspect the enterprise/educational 'windows to go' version are the only ones that can. So since it is a faeture of some versions, it must be an artificial limitation Microsoft chose to implement. Of course a USB booting install would need to have more generic drivers available than a fixed install, since you might be tempted to move it between computers.
Long ago, I was able to install Windows10Enterprise (90 days trial) to USB stick via QEMU. I had to use VM because Windows won't install to USB disk. So, install went ok. And, it boots ok. The problem was I couldn't do Windows Update. :-) As you know, Windows Update has been moved from "Control Settings" to Windows 10 "Setting" menu. -- William