Install Windows on external SSD and from Linux - real experience?

Question

linux

There is Linux and a new external SSD. You need to install Windu on it - 7ku or 10ku.

Are there those who really did this and then it started up?

Articles, theories - do not offer, I have seen them.

Answer 1

Personally, I didn’t succeed, I used the built-in utility to create a boot disk (the installation simply didn’t start, that is, the computer did not see the bootloader on the USB flash drive). WoeUSB, alas, is no longer supported, so I can suggest trying to download rufus in a virtual machine with Windows (well, or on another PC, if available), and create a boot disk there.

Answer 2

Do it through a virtual machine and forward usb to it, after installation, use the system transfer preparation program (Sysprep), reset all virtual machine drivers and boot from an external disk, win 10 should start, with win 7 you may have to pick up the registry to reset the chipset driver

Answer 3

If the computer is modern, with UEFI, then you can definitely do the following: remove the internal ssd, put the external one as internal, put Windows there in a regular way, and then assemble everything as it was and everything will work. There are generally only 2 problems here: there may not be drivers (because the drivers for the OS bootloader are in one place, and the drivers that Windows uses during operation are in another), or the BIOS will not be able to find the bootloader. The second problem is solved by putting the bootloader in the default location (in the case of UEFI, you need to put the bootloader binary at the root of the boot partition and name it as it is by default there, everything is googled, and if the computer is old and the BIOS is normal there - well it means not to forget to mark the partition as bootable and install the bootloader in the zero sector of the disk, and not in the partition), but the first one is experimentally verified.