Windows 10 on an SD card
I have an HP Laptop with 64GB of onboard storage, windows 10 is occupying 75% of the storage and client wants more storage, i was thinking to get an SD card with 512GB of space, insert it into the SD port and install a copy of windows 10 there. Is that possible? i tried but the installation would not boot to the SD card.
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Normally you would use a SSD nowadays.
Normally you would use a SSD nowadays.
Although Windoze 10, contrary to what has been mentioned above, should be installable to an SD Card, I would not recommend that in your situation. 64GB should be more than enough for the OS itself, & and the internal "Disk", which is probably a kind of SSD, should perform far better than an SD Card.
What I would do is to add an SD card, & use that for data & software you install, rather than for the OS itself. You can move things from your HD to the SD-Card to free up space there.
What I would do is to add an SD card, & use that for data & software you install, rather than for the OS itself. You can move things from your HD to the SD-Card to free up space there.
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Everything is onboard :( so i can't use any sata or ssd drives in this unit (no place to install the drives) that was the only solution i could come up with based on the situation. Thanks for you help guys at least now i know it can not be done.
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Windows To Go has been removed in Windows 10, version 2004. So if you have 2004 or later, it will not work
Hi George,
I'm in the same situation as you (with an HP Stream 11) and went the SD card route to solve it, but with one big difference from what you mentioned. I left Windows on the small onboard storage (the C drive) and put a high capacity SDXC card in the SD slot for all my data and third-party apps. I simply used Disk Management to assign drive letter S to the card (of course, use whatever drive letter you want). I've had no issues storing data on the card or installing apps on it (except for somewhat slower performance) and the small C drive now has plenty of space for Windows. Regards, Joe
Edit: I read the comments in this thread after posting, not before, and see that rindi had already provided the same answer, which I'm going to mark as the Solution. I'll leave my post as a sample data point showing that the method works very well...at least, it has for me.
I'm in the same situation as you (with an HP Stream 11) and went the SD card route to solve it, but with one big difference from what you mentioned. I left Windows on the small onboard storage (the C drive) and put a high capacity SDXC card in the SD slot for all my data and third-party apps. I simply used Disk Management to assign drive letter S to the card (of course, use whatever drive letter you want). I've had no issues storing data on the card or installing apps on it (except for somewhat slower performance) and the small C drive now has plenty of space for Windows. Regards, Joe
Edit: I read the comments in this thread after posting, not before, and see that rindi had already provided the same answer, which I'm going to mark as the Solution. I'll leave my post as a sample data point showing that the method works very well...at least, it has for me.
buy a larger drive and image it