
A pop-up will appear asking you if you want to format it to continue, select the partition scheme you want to use and click "Yes" to format it. If your external hard drive is not correctly recognized by WinToUSB, you need to click the button for the program to recognize the external hard drive. Select the external hard drive in the drop-down list. Connect the destination external hard drive or flash drive to the computer with an installed copy of WinToUSB, then run WinToUSB. Tutorial to clone Windows 8 to an external hard drive as portable Windows 8 wtih WinToUSB. Here we will show you how to clone Windows 8 installation to an external hard drive as portable Windows 8 step-by-step with the help of WinToUSB.

Is there any way to clone existing Windows 8 installation to an external hard drive as portable Windows 8? The answer is yes, WinToUSB can help you achieve this goal. However, by default, we can only create Windows To Go USB drive from an Windows 8 installation ISO file and cannot clone the existing Windows 8 installation to a USB drive by using the official Windows To Go Creator. Windows 8 is the first version of Windows that supports Windows To Go feature, Windows To Go allow us to install enterprise edition of Windows 8 to a Windows To Go Certified Drive and run Windows from this drive.

The plan is really for emergency backup, if the PC hard drive fails or some other issue comes up, the worker would be able to continue to work from the Portable Windows 8 on the external hard drive.

We are planning on cloning Windows 8 installation to an external hard drive (each device would be married to a PC). In our company, we use the Windows 8 operating system for office.
