Installing to an external HDD

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I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-75 laptop with Windows 10 on a 256GB SSD, Lenovo A4CN40WW (v.2.09) UEFI BIOS, AMD A10-7300 Radeon R6 processor, and a Broadcom 802.11 network adapter.

Is it possible to install Ubuntu 16.04 on an external SATA USB HDD including the bootloader?

Looks like it can be done, as long as your bios has an option to boot from a USB HD. — lainglo, May 16 '16 at 21:04
Does this answer your question? How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive? — karel, Jan 13 '20 at 23:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '16 at 22:30

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Yes. You can. And I've done it before. However the OS will then run generally very slow. So what I recommend (and what I tend to do) is learn how to swap the hard drive out easily and I bring screwdriver with me. I have a Lenovo laptop and my laptop bag has SSDs and a screwdriver. I find that I can do a swap in 15 minutes but it's worth it if you don't need to swap the OS that often.

answered May 16 '16 at 22:30

Jonathan

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Thanks Jonathan. I prefer not to use the screwdriver installation method. – user159153 May 19 '16 at 07:22

Installing to an external HDD

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