Hi guys, basically as the title says I want to make external SSD drive with “Windows to Go” for the stuff that I really need Windows for unfortunately (proprietary CAD software) but there is no software for making this on Linux that I can find

Edit: typo

  • @mvirts@lemmy.world
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    25 months ago

    I’m sure windows activation will complain, but you should be able to dd your windows partition (or disk) over to the external disk, set up a bootloader (windows can do this, but something like grub or syslinux I know would work to hand off to the windows bootloader)

    I don’t know anything about bitlocker stuff, probably needs to be decrypted before this can work.

    That’s what I would try, even though it’s not wrapped up in a single tool.

    • aprehendedmerlinOP
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      25 months ago

      I have never used Bitlocker before and I’ll keep it off. Also yes some else mentioned I can just use dd I’ll look into it thanks