How to Copy Windows Operating
System to WD External Hard Drive
Preparations:
Get a good-qualitied WD external hard drive, such as WD Elements SE
25FE USB Device.
Make sure there are enough space in the WD external hard drive.
Partition your WD external hard drive.
Connect your WD to your desktop computer or laptop in the right way.
Make the two disks in the same partition style: both in MBR or GPT.
Steps to Copy Windows OS to WD External Hard Drive
Step 1: Launch iSunshare CloneGo. Click "Copy" in the top left
corner.
Steps to Copy Windows OS to WD External Hard Drive
Step 2: Choose the Windows system partition (C drive) as the source
partition and then choose one volume/partition from WD USB device as
the destination target.
Steps to Copy Windows OS to WD External Hard Drive
Step 3: Click "Start" and if the USB device is in GPT format, you will get a
pop-up windows to tell you that the copy process needs to allocate a new
FAT partition from the current partition. Click "OK“ to continue.
Steps to Copy Windows OS to WD External Hard Drive
Step 4: Click “OK” and CloneGo will immediately start cloning your system
OS partition to the USB drive.
Steps to Copy Windows OS to WD External Hard Drive
Step 5: The Windows OS clone process is over and you can reboot the
computer from WD external hard disk now.
• For more:
https://www.isunshare.com/computer/copy-
windows-operating-system-to-wd-elements-
usb-device.html
• Software:
https://www.isunshare.com/clonego/