Thank you! You are saving people hours of frustration. I've been at it looking for a solution all day, making me question the value of doing it at all. Finally, with your guide, I'm happily running manjaro from my external m.2 drive. Fantastic!
You are clear and easy to understand. I installed linux Mint 19 on to a USB 3.0 successfully. Mint responds fast! I installed Manjaro 20.1 XFCE onto a USB 3.0, it took sixty-three minutes to install. I plugged in the USB 3.0 into a USB 3.0 terminal on my hp EliteDesk 800 G1, i7 4770, 8GB RAM, SSD HD. When I run Manjaro LIVE via USB 3.0, it run beautifully, fast, and responsive. However, the USB 3.0 I installed Manjaro freezes often. I returned to the Live USB 3.0 drive, I used the same 3.0 terminal. It runs beautifully fast, respond well, and does not freeze. I think I'll try installing Manjaro onto a USB 3.0 external SSD drive as you did in your impressive presentation. Congratulations, I have subscribed. I am looking forward to viewing more of what you have to share. Thank You!
Thank you for your feedback, really means a lot! I currently run mine off of that SSD via USB 3.2 and it runs more responsive than my main Windows setup on an M.2! Thanks again, this motivates me want to make more content! Best of luck!
Thank you very much, actually i was able to see my ssd in the drive options, but the installation was failing right after clicking install, your solution using gparted solved that issue as well.
@@AlexRocksYourSox - Thanks - but no luck. I'm getting a bootloader can't be installed error. Do you have any suggestions on what is causing that and/or how to overcome it?
Hello BigEyeCue, thanks for the detailed video. I only had to enter su in the terminal to install and prepare the hard disk for "gparted" before accepting "sudo pacman -Sy gparted". Booting goes very well. Sorry for my bad English ... (:-).
I had to change my old bios settings back to allow legacy usb booting. For some reason it did not like booting via uefi , even though it shows there for legacy and uefi. Good video for the drive setup as GPT and setting fat32 partition to /boot/uefi. I was also able to include a /home and swap partition. Oh, one video (somewhere) said to format the usb stick to GPT also and when using Rufus, select GPT instead of MBR on the left side of screen. I’m not sure that did much because previously I was able to setup Manjaro XFCE on a 128Gb usb stick. My latest effort was to a 2Tb Seagate external usb drive, using the UEFI settings. NOTE: tonight I had a glitch after rebooting. The XFCE panel (panel 0) was missing, so I had to recreate it. Good luck everyone.
So bad, today it's 15 months since this was recorded and the problem still exists. Searched 3 hrs until I found this video. I'll give it another try now!
@@AlexRocksYourSox yes .... And no, but problems of different nature now. Used arch Linux years ago and thought I give it a try. No info about how large to make / (
Thanks mate! I tried to google it for hours without success. This problem of calamares not seeing the drive - it seems only you know how to do it in the whole internet lol
Your tuto is amazing. Before, i was trying it with mint 20, and it shows me an error not able to install grub can't access da... also, in mint I cannot assign /boot/efi to fat32... But your way worked well!!! Much Appreciated
Nice dude. Some key stuff i saw. Like seeing your BIOS screen had "BIOS" in big ol' letters (like mine), but then said Bios Type: C??/UEFI. I was like, sheesh i would've thought your firmware was Bios. Like i've been assuming mine is. So i'm going to look into that. And you setup your boot partition using the UEFI method.
@@AlexRocksYourSox I have a question. I did follow all your guide and I got my external drive to work. I did everything in a mac. now my issue is that I put my hard drive on my custom pc. followed the bios instructions that you provided , however it does not boot up at all in my windows computer. Any idea of why this would be happening in a PC and not in.a mac? Thank... Best regards!
@@8bitretropro Does your bios detect the SSD? Do you get any error messages? I suspect your motherboard is detecting the SSD until after Windows boots up. Let me know
Thanks for helping me out! I'm now a happy user of Manjaro on my external SSD. Do you maybe now if it is possible to make it fully portable? To make it run on every machine or at least on every machine with UEFI (assuming no RAID, no secure or fast boot set up in UEFI)?
@@AlexRocksYourSox was there any specific factor that contributed to the portability? I made my instance of Manjaro specifically for my main machine with dedicated GPU, but when I plug into office-grade Dell latitude, I only get into "emergency prompt", so basically terminal only. Maybe there is a way to simplify this? Or something specific in UEFI that could also contribute to this?
@@noo-sho8500 So that's what I was referring to. Your SSD is trying to use Nvidia/AMD graphics for integrated Intel Machine. You may need to additionally install those drivers before using your work PC. The problem is sometimes Linux doesn't like to have both simultaneously installed.
Hi bro, I'm just wondering why can't I detect my hard drive after I unplug it and replug it into my laptop. it works when I don't unplug it after installation forever and now it's the 2nd time the boot drive is not detected in the bios. Excellent video btw.
That's with your BIOS settings. See if you can prioritize the SSD over everything. This kind of happened with my desktop too sometimes, but performing a full shutdown made it detectable for whatever reason.
I just got a new hdd and I tried to install manjaro a couple of times but I keep running into this error saying missing grub boot loader or loader its a brand new hdd
Well the error I got is when I’m filling out “my name” portion as soon as I press a key the installer goes away and I have to restart the app the keyboard I functioning fine I give up
Hi I want to install Ubuntu on external ssd and use it on any computer(Mac and windows) to boot into Ubuntu. Basically make a portable Ubuntu ssd. But I can’t seem to make it work It will be a great help if you could suggest a way to do this. Thank you
I haven't tried making a bootable SSD with Ubuntu, but this guide will work for Manjaro! I'm guessing Ubuntu is easier or very similar. If I have time I will look into it and make a guide!
I skipped that setting, no problem seemed to occur. I reached until the partitions point successfully. My problem there is that after clicking "manual partitioning" I only get one row on the table, the one that comes as "exFAT". There's no "FAT32" selection. I guess that's critical, so what should I do?
If its internal, you should be able to install it with the bootable USB drive without issues. If it does not detect your hardrive during install, then follow my guide
Hello, I following all of steps but I don' know why the '/boot/efi' option (11:07) doesn't appear in my installation menu. Can you give me a help? Thank you very much!
I have never encountered this issue before. You may have to reference the PDF guide i show in the video for more info on that. Perhaps the installer changed over time. Let me know how it goes, or if you need further assistance.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Never mind. I'm using the virtual box to install this and I forget to enable the UEFI boot option and now it works, thanks for your reply and your amazing tutorial!
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks for your reply. I think I do need the GParted step. Year's ago I was able to install Manjaro without any problems. However, today whenever I try to install Manjaro, Garuda, or any arch-based distro I get problems with the partition. The SSD is completely wiped and I have to install and set up another distro, usually an Ubuntu or Debian based distro. I have no problem installing them in VirtualBox, but no success installing them on the SSD.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks for all your help. Here's what happened. I had LMDE 4 installed on my SSD with LVM. That LVM stuff made it hard for the Manjaro or Garuda installers to do their jobs. The way I fixed it was to do a quick install of Ubuntu 20.04, then install Garuda over Ubuntu. Perhaps there was another way to fix it fiddling with the partition, but I got what I wanted in the end. LVM was the problem. Thank again for your help!
Do you mean use the flashdrive instead of the SSD? You essentially do that when installing the OS, and because flash drives have such slow transfer speeds compared to SSD's, you'll notice its slow and limited in the storage space. Not worth it IMO.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Yeah that was what I meant. Even if I used a fast flash drive? I have a fast ssd 2T, but It would be a hassle to connect it every time I want to use Manjaro. I'm gonna be working as a truck driver and need something I can plug in, while in a vehicle. Do you happen to have any suggestions?
@@vcrbetamax I don't really understand how its different. They both connect via USB. But anyways, if you have a fast flash drive, theoretically it should work just fine. Give it a shot, you have nothing to lose. Don't forget to be safe on the road! :)
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks man you earned a sub from me! I just meant that the 2T SSD is a box and corded. So a little flash drive can stick out of the USB slot and not bounce while driving and disconnect. At any rate you answered my question, thanks again!
@@vcrbetamax Gotcha! Thanks for the sub! And feel free to let me know if there's any content ideas you'd like to see! I love making linux vids, but I'm not sure what people are interested in seeing, thanks!
Same procedure for kubuntu? I am getting bashline error grub on external hdd boot when I try any other method. How do I delete or format those partitions which I created in earlier method.
@@AlexRocksYourSox I followed your gparted process , when I try to change flag in kubuntu install I don't get same options as shown..like when I select 1st partioin, I don't get mount option to select. Is that due to different versions of distro? Edit: it worked 👍 I deleted 1st partition in the install menu, re created it. Don't remember what I changed, now it's booting properly to kubuntu 👍
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Clear and concise. It's my third attempt at installing manjaro on an external ssd; hopefully this way works.
I hope it worked!
Did it work?
Took me 3 times before I decided to Google it. Lol 😅, this guy saved the day!
@@jaylils Nice!!!
Thank you! You are saving people hours of frustration. I've been at it looking for a solution all day, making me question the value of doing it at all. Finally, with your guide, I'm happily running manjaro from my external m.2 drive. Fantastic!
Awesome!! Glad you got some value out of this guide! Enjoy Linux!!
You are clear and easy to understand. I installed linux Mint 19 on to a USB 3.0 successfully. Mint responds fast! I installed Manjaro 20.1 XFCE onto a USB 3.0, it took sixty-three minutes to install. I plugged in the USB 3.0 into a USB 3.0 terminal on my hp EliteDesk 800 G1, i7 4770, 8GB RAM, SSD HD. When I run Manjaro LIVE via USB 3.0, it run beautifully, fast, and responsive. However, the USB 3.0 I installed Manjaro freezes often. I returned to the Live USB 3.0 drive, I used the same 3.0 terminal. It runs beautifully fast, respond well, and does not freeze. I think I'll try installing Manjaro onto a USB 3.0 external SSD drive as you did in your impressive presentation. Congratulations, I have subscribed. I am looking forward to viewing more of what you have to share. Thank You!
Thank you for your feedback, really means a lot! I currently run mine off of that SSD via USB 3.2 and it runs more responsive than my main Windows setup on an M.2! Thanks again, this motivates me want to make more content! Best of luck!
Thank you very much, actually i was able to see my ssd in the drive options, but the installation was failing right after clicking install, your solution using gparted solved that issue as well.
Great! I'm happy to hear that! I hope you enjoy Manjaro!
Dude! Thank you! I can't imagine the number of hours it took for you to figure all that out. Going to give it a try tonight for sure! Thanks!
Good luck!
@@AlexRocksYourSox - Thanks - but no luck. I'm getting a bootloader can't be installed error. Do you have any suggestions on what is causing that and/or how to overcome it?
Poggies! Concise yet elaborate tutorial with a voice of an angel 😉
Das so nice! 🤭
I hope you’re a female,,,just saying...
This helped me a lot. Had to do some extra steps since my installer and hardware were a bit more finicky but overall great
Glad to hear you got it running!
Hello BigEyeCue, thanks for the detailed video. I only had to enter su in the terminal to install and prepare the hard disk for "gparted" before accepting "sudo pacman -Sy gparted". Booting goes very well. Sorry for my bad English ... (:-).
Thank you my friend! I am glad you were able to boot up. I hope you have a lovely Manjaro experience!
I had to change my old bios settings back to allow legacy usb booting. For some reason it did not like booting via uefi , even though it shows there for legacy and uefi.
Good video for the drive setup as GPT and setting fat32 partition to /boot/uefi.
I was also able to include a /home and swap partition.
Oh, one video (somewhere) said to format the usb stick to GPT also and when using Rufus, select GPT instead of MBR on the left side of screen. I’m not sure that did much because previously I was able to setup Manjaro XFCE on a 128Gb usb stick.
My latest effort was to a 2Tb Seagate external usb drive, using the UEFI settings. NOTE: tonight I had a glitch after rebooting. The XFCE panel (panel 0) was missing, so I had to recreate it.
Good luck everyone.
Thank you for sharing your experiences. Hope this helps someone! Good luck!
So bad, today it's 15 months since this was recorded and the problem still exists. Searched 3 hrs until I found this video. I'll give it another try now!
Feedback, just had to start gparted once and editing the position table of the SSD was enough making it visible.
@@Reneg973 Excellent! At least you got it visible! Hope the rest is easy for you!
@@AlexRocksYourSox yes .... And no, but problems of different nature now. Used arch Linux years ago and thought I give it a try. No info about how large to make / (
Thanks mate! I tried to google it for hours without success. This problem of calamares not seeing the drive - it seems only you know how to do it in the whole internet lol
Thank you!! I'm glad this video helped out so many!!
Your tuto is amazing. Before, i was trying it with mint 20, and it shows me an error not able to install grub can't access da... also, in mint I cannot assign /boot/efi to fat32... But your way worked well!!! Much Appreciated
Awesome!! I'm glad it worked out for you! Enjoy Linux!!
You can set your boot sequence to default to that hard drive if its connected.
I would do this if Linux will be your primary OS. Thank you for the pointer!
You're a lifesaver!
Thank you dude, everything works the way I wanted!
Nice!!
This is all very interesting, thank you!
Keep up the videos!
thanks for sharing, appreciate it.
Nice dude. Some key stuff i saw. Like seeing your BIOS screen had "BIOS" in big ol' letters (like mine), but then said Bios Type: C??/UEFI. I was like, sheesh i would've thought your firmware was Bios. Like i've been assuming mine is. So i'm going to look into that. And you setup your boot partition using the UEFI method.
Simple instruction👍 thanks bro🙏
Thank you man you deserve the like
Thank you!!
thank you for this video... Please keep it up!
Thank you! I will think of topics to make more content!
@@AlexRocksYourSox I have a question. I did follow all your guide and I got my external drive to work. I did everything in a mac. now my issue is that I put my hard drive on my custom pc. followed the bios instructions that you provided , however it does not boot up at all in my windows computer. Any idea of why this would be happening in a PC and not in.a mac? Thank... Best regards!
@@8bitretropro Does your bios detect the SSD? Do you get any error messages? I suspect your motherboard is detecting the SSD until after Windows boots up. Let me know
@@AlexRocksYourSox I just tried it again at it work like a charm. thanks
@@8bitretropro Awesome! I'm happy to hear that!
Saved my bacon. Cheers mate
thanks man, that's the right attitude
Thanks !
Thanks man ! It worked !!
Can you give instructions on how to do the whole thing under macos? Unfortunately I don't have a Windows PC
Thanks 😊👍. I appreciate your plain and simple explanation
Glad you like it!! 😇
you saved my life . Thank you !!!!!
You're welcome!
Thanks bro, nice guidelines 👍👍👍
Thanks for helping me out! I'm now a happy user of Manjaro on my external SSD. Do you maybe now if it is possible to make it fully portable? To make it run on every machine or at least on every machine with UEFI (assuming no RAID, no secure or fast boot set up in UEFI)?
It sure is! I'm currently doing so with work and home. It's not a seamless transition though, because of graphics drivers, but it's close!
@@AlexRocksYourSox was there any specific factor that contributed to the portability? I made my instance of Manjaro specifically for my main machine with dedicated GPU, but when I plug into office-grade Dell latitude, I only get into "emergency prompt", so basically terminal only. Maybe there is a way to simplify this? Or something specific in UEFI that could also contribute to this?
@@noo-sho8500 So that's what I was referring to. Your SSD is trying to use Nvidia/AMD graphics for integrated Intel Machine. You may need to additionally install those drivers before using your work PC. The problem is sometimes Linux doesn't like to have both simultaneously installed.
@@AlexRocksYourSox I get it now. Thanks!! I'll give it a shot 😁
Great video man. You helped me a ton!
Thank you for watching! Enjoy Linux!
Very instructive, thank you :)
saved my ass, thank you very much.
Thanks! Enjoy Linux!
thanks for this!
My pleasure!
Hi bro, I'm just wondering why can't I detect my hard drive after I unplug it and replug it into my laptop. it works when I don't unplug it after installation forever and now it's the 2nd time the boot drive is not detected in the bios. Excellent video btw.
That's with your BIOS settings. See if you can prioritize the SSD over everything. This kind of happened with my desktop too sometimes, but performing a full shutdown made it detectable for whatever reason.
I just got a new hdd and I tried to install manjaro a couple of times but I keep running into this error saying missing grub boot loader or loader its a brand new hdd
Did you follow my guide exactly? What step are you getting the error at?
COOL
Will this external SSD boot on an Intel Mac, too?
I don't see why it wouldn't. Give it a shot and let us know!
God bless you! How did you figure all of this out????
A lot of patience and experimentation! I don't want you guys to reinvent the wheel so I share my findings with the community! Enjoy Linux! :)
Will it work with a 64gb usb 3.0 usb drive?
Yes!
Well the error I got is when I’m filling out “my name” portion as soon as I press a key the installer goes away and I have to restart the app the keyboard I functioning fine I give up
Try installing it on a different USB. If that doesn't work try a different iso file! Good luck!
so you can use it in any pc, but what about if a pc doesnt have nvidia graphics or doesnt matter
It can work if you use the Linux drivers, but I have noticed best performance if the GFX cards are similar
Hi
I want to install Ubuntu on external ssd and use it on any computer(Mac and windows) to boot into Ubuntu. Basically make a portable Ubuntu ssd.
But I can’t seem to make it work
It will be a great help if you could suggest a way to do this.
Thank you
I haven't tried making a bootable SSD with Ubuntu, but this guide will work for Manjaro! I'm guessing Ubuntu is easier or very similar. If I have time I will look into it and make a guide!
@@AlexRocksYourSox it will be really helpful
is there any lag issues while using linux operating system in an external ssd
Absolutely not. I'm using it full time over my M.2. drive. Just make sure the USB port you use on your computer is a fast one like USB 3.2.
@@AlexRocksYourSox my laptop has USB 3.1 type is that ok
@@Gamerboy18821 that should be plenty fast. Give it a go!
will this work on a usb stick as the drive?
Sure, but the operating system will probably be laggy, depending on the quality of USB stick.
@@AlexRocksYourSox was thinking about a 3.1 gen 1 256gb at 200mb/s
When I try to create the partition and apply those changes the gparted crashes. Does anyone have the same issue?
I can't find "fast boot" on my BIOS menu. Is it important or I can skip it?
I skipped that setting, no problem seemed to occur. I reached until the partitions point successfully. My problem there is that after clicking "manual partitioning" I only get one row on the table, the one that comes as "exFAT". There's no "FAT32" selection. I guess that's critical, so what should I do?
thanks 🙏👍🐧
im using an internal ssd, should it still work the same?
If its internal, you should be able to install it with the bootable USB drive without issues. If it does not detect your hardrive during install, then follow my guide
Hello, I following all of steps but I don' know why the '/boot/efi' option (11:07) doesn't appear in my installation menu. Can you give me a help? Thank you very much!
I have never encountered this issue before. You may have to reference the PDF guide i show in the video for more info on that. Perhaps the installer changed over time. Let me know how it goes, or if you need further assistance.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Never mind. I'm using the virtual box to install this and I forget to enable the UEFI boot option and now it works, thanks for your reply and your amazing tutorial!
@@miniimposter Awesome!
I've been having problems installing Manjaro on my INTERNAL SSD on my 8 gig 500 gb SSD laptop. Can I follow this tutorial for that?
You sure can, although I don't think you need to follow the gparted step, unless your SSD isn't showing up on the list.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks for your reply. I think I do need the GParted step. Year's ago I was able to install Manjaro without any problems. However, today whenever I try to install Manjaro, Garuda, or any arch-based distro I get problems with the partition. The SSD is completely wiped and I have to install and set up another distro, usually an Ubuntu or Debian based distro. I have no problem installing them in VirtualBox, but no success installing them on the SSD.
@@abaneyone I've managed to install Manjaro on an internal SSD. It's usually gone a lot smoother than an external. Anyways, let me know how it goes!
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks for all your help. Here's what happened. I had LMDE 4 installed on my SSD with LVM. That LVM stuff made it hard for the Manjaro or Garuda installers to do their jobs. The way I fixed it was to do a quick install of Ubuntu 20.04, then install Garuda over Ubuntu. Perhaps there was another way to fix it fiddling with the partition, but I got what I wanted in the end. LVM was the problem. Thank again for your help!
@@abaneyone I'm glad you got it working! Hope some of my stuff helped! Enjoy friend!
When I do this, can I use this on any laptop also?
The functionality kind of depends on the graphics drivers, but yes it's possible.
Does this work with 2nd internal ssd, my laptop has 2 internal Drive slot one is sata one is nvme can i use this to my nvme ssd?
You sure can
11:38 in this part the boot/efi is not there
Are you able to just use the flashdrive? Is There any functionality lost?
Do you mean use the flashdrive instead of the SSD? You essentially do that when installing the OS, and because flash drives have such slow transfer speeds compared to SSD's, you'll notice its slow and limited in the storage space. Not worth it IMO.
@@AlexRocksYourSox Yeah that was what I meant. Even if I used a fast flash drive? I have a fast ssd 2T, but It would be a hassle to connect it every time I want to use Manjaro. I'm gonna be working as a truck driver and need something I can plug in, while in a vehicle. Do you happen to have any suggestions?
@@vcrbetamax I don't really understand how its different. They both connect via USB. But anyways, if you have a fast flash drive, theoretically it should work just fine. Give it a shot, you have nothing to lose. Don't forget to be safe on the road! :)
@@AlexRocksYourSox Thanks man you earned a sub from me! I just meant that the 2T SSD is a box and corded. So a little flash drive can stick out of the USB slot and not bounce while driving and disconnect. At any rate you answered my question, thanks again!
@@vcrbetamax Gotcha! Thanks for the sub! And feel free to let me know if there's any content ideas you'd like to see! I love making linux vids, but I'm not sure what people are interested in seeing, thanks!
How many MB/s read/write does the ssd have you used?
I believe
1050 megabytes per second
@@AlexRocksYourSox What USB version?
@@paddyk45 3.2
@@AlexRocksYourSox okay, thank you
When will he come back :(
What kind of videos should we make Shaq?
@@AlexRocksYourSox EYY! good with some gameplay vids... honestly would watch any content you make
Same procedure for kubuntu? I am getting bashline error grub on external hdd boot when I try any other method. How do I delete or format those partitions which I created in earlier method.
Try booting using a bootable USB stick, and format the HDD using GParted or a similar tool.
@@AlexRocksYourSox I followed your gparted process , when I try to change flag in kubuntu install I don't get same options as shown..like when I select 1st partioin, I don't get mount option to select.
Is that due to different versions of distro?
Edit: it worked 👍 I deleted 1st partition in the install menu, re created it. Don't remember what I changed, now it's booting properly to kubuntu 👍
@@flyhigh5066 Awesome! Glad to hear it. Hope you enjoy Linux!!
For good experience as it's like on internal drive, what is the recommended ssd speed?
Anything over 1000 mb/s should be good. Just make sure you use the proper USB port (USB-C or 3.2)
11:07
Manual partitioning is necessary?
Only if your SSD doesn't appear in the auto partition option.