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3 months agoI was installing Win10 Pro to a SSD that I would stick in an external case. Would work, for a while, but eventually would get an error and would be unable to boot, or repair it. Windows seems to be designed to know when it’s installed on an external drive, and to hose itself out of spite. I gave up after the fourth time, resigned to the fact I just had to find an alternative CAD software package that I could access from Linux.
Windows knows when it’s on an external drive. The installer would insist Windows could only be installed on an internal drive, so I would have to swap out one of the SSD’s on the motherboard with the drive I intended to use. After it was done, I’d switch it out to an external case with a USB-C connection. Might boot up a dozen times, more or less, then crap out. At least it never did anything to screw up the Linux drives, but they’re ext4 formatted, so Windows won’t recognize them.