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But if your USB hard drives already contain some data, then you should not use Rufus and prepare external USB hard drives as mentioned in how to install Windows 10 from an external hard drive. Since external USB drives are way faster than any USB pendrive, they are ideal for using as the bootable installation media for installing Windows or Linux on any computer.

After a few minutes (depending on the ISO file size), your external hard drive is ready for installing operating system.If you want to continue, click on the OK button. You will be shown a warning that it is going to destroy all the data on the target storage drive.Select your USB hard drive, select an ISO image (Windows or Linux) and click on the Start button.Launch Rufus and select the option List USB Hard Drives.Download latest version of Rufus portable from.If you want a non-destructive method (without erasing files that already exist on the external hard drive) to create bootable external USB hard drive for installing Windows from, then you can read our article – how to install Windows 10 from an external hard drive. Note: Rufus destroys the contents of USB hard drives to prepare them.

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