Can Win10 work with USB?

Question

Windows

They brought an Acer Aspire 3830T laptop with a buggy built-in SATA. In principle, it works, you can boot from a "live" flash drive with XP, even test the screw on board in AHCI mode, but you start setting 10 - after installation and reboot, some other driver is loaded, it tries to boot for 20 minutes, it's black screen - and an unreadable error. When switching to IDE emulation, nothing works at all. You can install Debian, but at the beginning of the download it writes a bunch of reading errors, and with a fairly high probability it boots ... But the person wants 10-ku.
Only USB ports work normally, the sd card reader is kind of strange, the pci-express version, it is not seen either at startup or by the grub bootloader. And so the idea arose to find a small flash drive of sufficient volume and try to make it a system one. Everything works on a flash drive. But how to prepare such a flash drive, or how to put it on a flash drive so that everything works?

Answer 1

With Windows To Go, you can create a copy of Windows on a USB drive. The Windows To Go Creator Wizard is only available in Windows 8 Enterprise.

Answer 2

From simple options: unetbootin

Answer 3

Maybe. Install a virtual machine, roll Win 10 Entrprise there, there will be Windows To Go in the control panel, everything is done there ... You roll onto an external hard drive or a flash drive ... And then you can boot from this media from any computer and work. Moreover, if you connect to SATA (for example, remove the hard drive from the case), everything will work great ...
And I would not recommend a flash drive. An external hard drive is better ... With a flash drive there will be such brakes that mom does not cry (and plus the Win To Go installer will not allow you to install on non-certified flash drives (and any hard drive is possible) ... Just a flash drive of sufficient volume with a normal speed for the price will be at the level of hard at 1TB cost if not more ....

Answer 4

The topic was decided rather strange ... Once again I climbed inside the laptop, I decided to pull the cable out of the mother. I pulled it out, put it back in, tried it - and it worked! Apparently, the contact of one of the SATA wires was lost, in the same place, it seems, there is a twisted pair back and forth. Actually, the question of starting from USB has disappeared as unnecessary. I won’t close the topic, maybe someone else will write, because the issue has not been fully resolved ...