While the dual-boot scenario works, this can cause undesirable issues when grub installs its files on the external drive. This article was written with the goal of defining an alternative to the traditional dual boot concept and keeping each operating system isolated from each other.
While I did not specifically test a USB Thumb Drive and did not intend to address this device in this article, I see no reason why this would not work for Thumb Drives as well. A simple Google search shows many articles, blogs and forum posts written on this topic, all of them discuss setting up dual-boot strategies. We would still need it for next process.The topic of a bootable external USB Linux hard drive (without dual-boot) is an area that is not well documented. Leaving DISKPART program but don't close the Command Prompt instead. Formatting current partition as NTFS file system quickly. Type ' format fs=ntfs quick' and hit Enter.Choosing the ' partition 1' for setting up it as an active partition. Type ' select partition 1' an hit Enter.Creating a primary partition and further recognized by Windows as ' partition 1'. Type ' create partition primary' and hit Enter.Type ' clean' and hit Enter to remove all of data in the drive.Type ' select disk 1' to determine that disk 1 would be processed in the next step then hit Enter.There would be seen that the active disks shown as Disk 0 for hard drive and Disk 1 for your USB flashdrive with its total capacity. Type ' list disk' to view active disks on your computer and hit Enter.Wait for a while until the DISKPART program run. Type ' diskpart' on Command Prompt (without quotes) and hit Enter.After search result for ' cmd' appears, right click on it and select " Run as administrator". To do this, we need to find cmd by typing ' cmd' in the search box on Windows Start Menu. As the first step, we need to run Command Prompt as administrator. Insert your USB flash drive to your running computer.
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