Hopefully this can help someone; when using rufus, if you are trying it with a hard drive, even one connected via USB, you must press ALT + F to get it to show them.
Hey one inconvenince. When I disconnect the hard drive with ubuntu in it and start the computer it shows a gnu grub screen. I can get into windows if when booting I manually select windows but can I do something to make the computer automatically boot into windows when the hard drive is disconnected?
Thank you so much! This really helps me out so well and I don't like to wipe my school hard drive and lose my school's os that is controlled by my IT dept.
Thank you so much! I tried tutorials from other guys and met some annoying problems. And all these problem can be avoided by following your video with a usb and another external ssd. I have struggled a lot figuring out why I always had an error saying cannot unmount cdrom, but after using your solution everything goes smoothly! Really thanks!!!
Thank you for the video. Just what I've been looking for. One thing from your video. If the external HD is empty do you have to delete the partition and then recreate it again or will the Ubuntu installer do this for me?? Thanx in advance.. You got another sub :-)
Dude that a really nice wallpaper! From where did you get it. And btw thank you i was strugling with this for 3 hours because my pc cant boot from usb.
I got a GRUB error after doing it, How can I solve it? Windows boots correctly but when I try to boot ubuntu from the SSD it just shows the grub screen
Thanks for the video, it helped my understanding a lot since I am not an IT guy. I do have a question though, can I skip the partition part if I want to use the whole SSD for Linux? The partitions are very confusing. Thanks.
After I do the partioning of / which is root partition, and then I click on install, ubuntu says me to add EFI partition, but my PC is mbr, what to do?
Thanks for sharing this. It really helped. Now I have completed my work in ubuntu and need to format external ubuntu hard disk to use it as normal hard disk. When I am plugging this in Windows laptop window is not detecting the hard disk. How can I format hard disk to make it again a normal hard disk
I know your problem Go to disk management instead of File Explorer from Windows From there you can delete the Ubuntu system partitions and create new one
Hello. I have installed an SSD as my main drive, and moved the HDD into the optical drive bay. So now I want to install Ubuntu into my HDD at the Optical drive bay. Every time I attempt to do it, an error occurs and ubuntu does not load from my HDD. can you suggest a solution?
if i don't use pendrive will it work?? i mean you needed to disconnect the pendrive at a point .. i will dow load the ubuntu file in my laptop's internal storage ... so i wont be able to disconnect that ...
I did this today and wiped out my HDD. I used written directions. I came here and see that I did it exactly right, and yet it overwrote my HDD. Wrote it on the removable drive too, but no. I watched very carefully hoping I'd see something I missed or got wrong.
In the root partition will the Ubuntu just occupy 50gb out of the 500gb or it will occupy the whole disk once installed And thanks for this knowledgeble vid😊
@@NCXTech heyy so will the unallocated space be used by windows ?? and is it like once we partition it the external disk will work as both main drive for linux and external storage space for windows? and if so what file format is is supporting? NTFS? and is there any risks associated with doing so to my c drive? Thankyou in advance.
Hello good sir. I already complete everything u teach in this vid. One problem is after succesfull installation, instead of booting to ubuntu my laptop pass through booting straight to windows without anyway to choose boot to ubuntu that I just installed. Any sugestion on how to solve that? Any answer will be appreciated. Thx
This is a very useful video! Thank you. Assuming that I install the ubuntu in my ssd, I wonder if ubuntu's storage space is the existing c drive or ssd.
I don't have an empty flash drive on hand right now. Is it possible to use a DVD instead, to install Linux onto an empy hard drive? Or is there any way to install Linux on the hard drive without using a flash drive? Thanks!
I have a problem, now when I try to boot in macOS without the external drive I see grub and I stuck on this, now I need always to start with ALT (Opt) and manually select macOS :(
Thanks for the video, incredibly helpful! Sadly, I'm having a serious issue when booting without the external disk plugged... It shows a "terminal-like" window of Grub, and there is not any chance to boot windows... Do you know why? I don't even know where to look for help Windows boots normally if the external disk is plugged and i select it, in fact I have the opportunity to choose ubuntu or windows. But with the disk unplugged I only have that grub window and can't do anything... Thanks in advance!! As in the video, I have windows on internal disk and ubuntu on external
First of all thank you so much for your time and your help (the minimum I can do is to give you another subscriber, hope that pleases you). I'll definitely give it a try in less than half an hour, so I can give you some feedback!
Please correct me if I’m wrong: If you install the Ubuntu distro on to an external drive successfully and are using it and then remove it without shutting down then you run the risk of corrupting part(s) of it. If you’re booting to Ubuntu but want to switch back to Windows I believe you have to restart your computer and, this is the part I’m unsure of, it’ll automatically boot to the native OS of your computer. If it doesn’t, just go back to the boot screen in your BIOS and select the internal drive where your OS is installed at (or other external drive if you have several externally installed OS’s) and choose it then boot
Should the external hard disk be empty...? Are is it okay to install ubuntu in the external disk without backup..?? Will the data be erased in the external disk while installing..?
I tried this way. but my main internal drive boot manager got affected with this. any idea how to prevent it? last option will be removing internal ssd till i finish linux installation on external hdd
hello, thank you so much really appreciate your videos! I have one problem though.. my computer stops after I choose *ubuntu (4:29 from your video) and would not boot ubuntu that I have installed on my usb. Could you suggest any solutions? I have been waiting ubuntu to load for hours and still does not work. I am currently using the hp zbook fury. Would love to get your reply. Thanks alot!
Hello! Thanks for the video I was reading some blogs and they said that I need to unplug my internal HD and SSD beforehand so I can boot the ubuntu on an external HD Do I really have to do that? (I have a pc with both internal HD and SSD)
Check from bios the boot order. Your machine attempts to boot in the order specified there. If you installed a new os on the external drive but the internal drives are higher in the list and have an os installed, that os(on the internal drive) will be loaded up.
Sorry for bad audio :)
Here's the audio-edited version
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It's completely fine! I understand what you said on this vid.
If that means no music. this is a tutorial, not a bloody movie or tv show. Especially even more irritating when English is heavily accented.
ended up formatting my entire computer rather than the USB drive. Cool.
🙁
LUL 😂
F
Now you become real Linux user
Happen to me once
Thank you! Don't forget to have your external drive as GPT beforehand! (From windows go into diskpart, clean the disk, then convert gpt
I forgot 😢, thx
@@vilkyway6439 So did I lol
Love you for that command tahnks a lot :)
I almost forgot this, thank you!! :)
Hopefully this can help someone; when using rufus, if you are trying it with a hard drive, even one connected via USB, you must press ALT + F to get it to show them.
Hey one inconvenince. When I disconnect the hard drive with ubuntu in it and start the computer it shows a gnu grub screen. I can get into windows if when booting I manually select windows but can I do something to make the computer automatically boot into windows when the hard drive is disconnected?
Thank you so much! This really helps me out so well and I don't like to wipe my school hard drive and lose my school's os that is controlled by my IT dept.
thank you man i was stuck at the usb coping screen and didnt know where to go from there the tutorial really helped .
Thank you so much! I tried tutorials from other guys and met some annoying problems. And all these problem can be avoided by following your video with a usb and another external ssd. I have struggled a lot figuring out why I always had an error saying cannot unmount cdrom, but after using your solution everything goes smoothly! Really thanks!!!
Glad I could help!
thank you for the video, it already helped me 2 times in 2 weeks
Thank you for the video. Just what I've been looking for. One thing from your video. If the external HD is empty do you have to delete the partition and then recreate it again or will the Ubuntu installer do this for me?? Thanx in advance.. You got another sub :-)
Thanks :)
Select Erase disk and install Ubuntu on the external hdd
You don't need to create partitions manually
Everything will be done automatically
Dude that a really nice wallpaper! From where did you get it. And btw thank you i was strugling with this for 3 hours because my pc cant boot from usb.
I got a GRUB error after doing it, How can I solve it? Windows boots correctly but when I try to boot ubuntu from the SSD it just shows the grub screen
Thanks for the video, it helped my understanding a lot since I am not an IT guy. I do have a question though, can I skip the partition part if I want to use the whole SSD for Linux? The partitions are very confusing. Thanks.
Thank you for this tutorial, it guided me well.
hi i coudnt choose the device on rufus. what could be the problem?
Same issue, SSD not being recognised...
I’ll just say the music becomes distracting but everything else was on point! thanks
Thank you so much!!
Really helped
Can i do this like by making a partition on my external hard drive then on one partition i put the ISO and on the other one i install ubuntu?
Excellent tutorial. Thank you!
Sub for more:)
After I do the partioning of / which is root partition, and then I click on install, ubuntu says me to add EFI partition, but my PC is mbr, what to do?
i think you are screwed there, as there is no way to change a BIOS type. if you do, the computer will brick itself.
External hard option not coming while installing Ubuntu, following all you steps but not showing. What am I missing out ?
Thanks for sharing this. It really helped. Now I have completed my work in ubuntu and need to format external ubuntu hard disk to use it as normal hard disk. When I am plugging this in Windows laptop window is not detecting the hard disk.
How can I format hard disk to make it again a normal hard disk
I know your problem
Go to disk management instead of File Explorer from Windows
From there you can delete the Ubuntu system partitions and create new one
hello i thought we have to create 2 partitions on external drive, "/" and "uefi" for boot, not right ? thx
Great vid!
so I'll keep the windows on my laptops Internet ssd?
Hello. I have installed an SSD as my main drive, and moved the HDD into the optical drive bay. So now I want to install Ubuntu into my HDD at the Optical drive bay. Every time I attempt to do it, an error occurs and ubuntu does not load from my HDD. can you suggest a solution?
if i don't use pendrive will it work??
i mean you needed to disconnect the pendrive at a point .. i will dow load the ubuntu file in my laptop's internal storage ... so i wont be able to disconnect that ...
Why did you use an internal hard drive add your external hard drive?
I did this today and wiped out my HDD. I used written directions. I came here and see that I did it exactly right, and yet it overwrote my HDD. Wrote it on the removable drive too, but no. I watched very carefully hoping I'd see something I missed or got wrong.
Shouldn't you partition your HDD before installing Linux so that you don't lose your files?
So, if we don't clear the original partition of the external hard drive, the files on the external hard drive won't be deleted?
When i select ubuntu to boot it boots windows. Do u know why?
In the root partition will the Ubuntu just occupy 50gb out of the 500gb or it will occupy the whole disk once installed
And thanks for this knowledgeble vid😊
Only 50gb, remaining will be left as unallocated space
@@NCXTech heyy so will the unallocated space be used by windows ?? and is it like once we partition it the external disk will work as both main drive for linux and external storage space for windows? and if so what file format is is supporting? NTFS? and is there any risks associated with doing so to my c drive? Thankyou in advance.
Hello good sir. I already complete everything u teach in this vid. One problem is after succesfull installation, instead of booting to ubuntu my laptop pass through booting straight to windows without anyway to choose boot to ubuntu that I just installed. Any sugestion on how to solve that? Any answer will be appreciated. Thx
Plz go to bios setting and set ubuntu as first boot priority
Your problem will be solved
Background music not required it is disturbing.
Does the internal wifi and other usb ports and internal storage(hdd/ssd) work when we boot this os (from external drive) ?
Sure , it will
But you have to compromise with speed
thanks for this video..cheers
How do I switch back to windows from Ubuntu?
Remove external hdd and instead boot from your internal hdd if not go to boot menu and choose internal hdd
No efi partition formed error...what should I do for this?
You gave root 50GB, now what will happen to the rest of the HDDspace?
Super
Thank you so much
Bro after installing how to shift to the windows
Thank you 😊
Helpful
How to remove Ubuntu from external SSD or hdd
plz how can i run ubuntu on just a partition of my external drive
Is this method going to work on a regular external hard drive?
Muito bom, amigo. Simples e eficaz
This is a very useful video! Thank you.
Assuming that I install the ubuntu in my ssd, I wonder if ubuntu's storage space is the existing c drive or ssd.
This will do nothing with your C Drive
Thank you for your answer. I have question one more. There is some data in my ssd, If I install ubuntu in my ssd, will all data inside ssd be deleted?
@@user-jj3zm3wp3g yes
I don't have an empty flash drive on hand right now. Is it possible to use a DVD instead, to install Linux onto an empy hard drive? Or is there any way to install Linux on the hard drive without using a flash drive? Thanks!
Yes this should work, you can use windows built-in tool to burn the iso, just right click the iso and click burn
I have a problem, now when I try to boot in macOS without the external drive I see grub and I stuck on this, now I need always to start with ALT (Opt) and manually select macOS :(
Yeah same problem Ubuntu changes the boot on main drive sadly even when u choose external drive as boot device
Thanks for the video, incredibly helpful!
Sadly, I'm having a serious issue when booting without the external disk plugged... It shows a "terminal-like" window of Grub, and there is not any chance to boot windows... Do you know why? I don't even know where to look for help
Windows boots normally if the external disk is plugged and i select it, in fact I have the opportunity to choose ubuntu or windows. But with the disk unplugged I only have that grub window and can't do anything... Thanks in advance!!
As in the video, I have windows on internal disk and ubuntu on external
From bios setting go to boot menu and select windows boot manager as boot device(or in 1st priority), when external drive is unplugged
First of all thank you so much for your time and your help (the minimum I can do is to give you another subscriber, hope that pleases you). I'll definitely give it a try in less than half an hour, so I can give you some feedback!
Sure
Yes, that worked! Thank you so much!! Have a good one :)
You're welcome
Stay connected...
Ssd 32gb can install ubuntu? Or if can't choose normal install mode bcoz not enough space, can choose minimal install?
32gb is enough for normal installation
just another good reason why lunix its batter you can install it on a external hard drive as a operating system .
this is such a big + in my bock
Thank you
Thank you!
Muito obrigado ajudou demais ☺️ simples e rápido
If you don't have the external HDD plugged in, will it ask you which system you want to boot into, like dual boot does?
Well it will probably start the OS in the internal hard drive
@@SketchrA I was asking about the bootloader menu. Will it show up?
It depends where you have installed bootloader, internal or external drive
@@NCXTech I'm willing to install it in an external hard drive.
Permission to ask. What will happen to the system boot if the hard drive is removed from the computer?
Please correct me if I’m wrong:
If you install the Ubuntu distro on to an external drive successfully and are using it and then remove it without shutting down then you run the risk of corrupting part(s) of it.
If you’re booting to Ubuntu but want to switch back to Windows I believe you have to restart your computer and, this is the part I’m unsure of, it’ll automatically boot to the native OS of your computer. If it doesn’t, just go back to the boot screen in your BIOS and select the internal drive where your OS is installed at (or other external drive if you have several externally installed OS’s) and choose it then boot
will it damage your pc ?
Should the external hard disk be empty...?
Are is it okay to install ubuntu in the external disk without backup..??
Will the data be erased in the external disk while installing..?
Not necessary to be empty
Or you can create some free space by deleting or shrinking down a partition (around 50gbfree space) to install ubuntu in it
@@NCXTech Thank you
do you need two usb ports to install ubuntu on an external hard drive?? Thanks!!
Yes, of course
I tried this way. but my main internal drive boot manager got affected with this. any idea how to prevent it? last option will be removing internal ssd till i finish linux installation on external hdd
Same issue it does add an entry to boot on main drive not external drive. But the workaround is changing boot sequence to windows as main
@@agnosticmanquestionsall2409 I don't think Linux installation knows what boot order is set in bios. It has no control over bios setting
My laptop have nvme(m.2) and HDD i want to install Ubuntu 22 on my nvme how can I do that
Same process
Just be careful while choosing disk at the time of installation
The hard drive isn’t showing as an external hard drive anymore on my windows. Any fix for that?
Ext4 type don't show sadly
So I need a second USB to install on a external hard drive?
You need one USB drive to boot into the installation process, and a second USB stick/external drive to install Ubuntu on it
I have followed the same as mentioned in video but in boot menu I could not find my external ssd
:(
Make sure it is connected properly
Can this method be used for external SSD too?
Sure you can
@@NCXTechAnd if you Partition the SSD wouldn't that save your files that are written?
Bro my external hdd is 1tb can I creat 50gb partition and install it without loosing the data in external hard disk
Sure
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Don't put the background music on tutorial videos please :((
if i want to plug this hdd and use on other laptop its not showing in boot menu
You have to choose Ubuntu from boot menu
@@NCXTech it ain't showing in boot menu basically i want to create a plug and play drive that i can use on any computer for using ubuntu
hello, thank you so much really appreciate your videos! I have one problem though.. my computer stops after I choose *ubuntu (4:29 from your video) and would not boot ubuntu that I have installed on my usb. Could you suggest any solutions? I have been waiting ubuntu to load for hours and still does not work. I am currently using the hp zbook fury. Would love to get your reply. Thanks alot!
It's recommended to use a better usb drive or a hdd , instead of old usb 2.0
If you you use USB to SATA then get the USB 3 version of that adapter
Sorry I can hardly follow the procedure because of this unnecessary’loud’ music…
Sorry for the loud background music 🙁
Roblox is up because literally a million people play in so many servers
does this also work for second internal drives?
Yeah
Why did your boot menu completely change? Before installing Ubuntu 4:09 and after installing Ubuntu 10:46
🤔🤔
Ubuntu's installed... Some changes expected in boot menu
will this delete all my data on disc im download linux on or will data stay?
If you are talking about the bootable usb device, No .. it does not delete any data from the usb drive
@@NCXTech ok thanks
Can you install linux on an SSD without a USB drive?
But we need a bootable media... so usb required
@@NCXTech got it
Can't understand because of MUSIC!! 👎
can i use my usb insted of HDD
Sure :)
Applies same method
@@NCXTech thanks, is it same for Linux mint?
Hello!
Thanks for the video
I was reading some blogs and they said that I need to unplug my internal HD and SSD beforehand so I can boot the ubuntu on an external HD
Do I really have to do that? (I have a pc with both internal HD and SSD)
Check from bios the boot order. Your machine attempts to boot in the order specified there. If you installed a new os on the external drive but the internal drives are higher in the list and have an os installed, that os(on the internal drive) will be loaded up.
Telling people how to download a file, etc means they should not be installing any OS.
Yeah, you're right
But there're still some people who need all these steps explained
Skip to the chase and waste less of my time. I just wanted to know how to format a disk as root and it took me 5 mins to find in this video
is it working for external wd drives?
yes