Turning SSD into Bootable USB

Yeah I like ventoy too, works well enough for me, mostly. I use it with a 128GB sandisk extreme pro USB stick that gives almost full USB gen1 400+ MBps read/write speeds. Might try easy2boot though, just to be able to compare it.

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Save your time and headache by buying an enclosure. It’s too much a mess for making a bootable device via a long procedure. It can be done without an enclosure but not worth the effort and time.
Besides enclosure always come handy.

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i need it urgently thats the issue

You’re right, I forgot one more command:
[ICODE]BOOTSECT.EXE /NT60 U:[/ICODE]
where U:\ is the drive letter of the spare SSD
BOOTSECT.EXE is found in the boot folder in ISO

Rufus won’t even show you internal disks. It shows only USB. OP wanted to create a bootable internal disk. In all other cases, yes just use Rufus.

On my Asus mobo I could set every sata ports as a removable drive from BIOS. You can hot plug it as well. You can “safely remove” the drive too just like an external USB. I haven’t tried making it a bootable drive using rufus yet, but I don’t see why it won’t let me.

Doesn’t make sense unless the drive in question is actually made a true bootable. Mere setting any drive bootable wont boot by extracting any bootable files.

Read this for clarification..

https://techenclave.com/threads/turning-ssd-into-bootable-usb.217837/post-2502430