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Copy Windows 10 only to an external drive

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Can I use Acronis 2019 to copy the Windows 10 operating system only on my C drive to an external usb drive? Thanks

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Randall, welcome to these public User Forums.

You can make a backup of your Windows 10 OS drive / partitions on your external USB drive, or you could clone the OS drive & partitions to the external USB drive provided it is off sufficient size to support this.

In either case, the external USB drive will not allow you to boot from it into Windows 10 - this is a restriction imposed by Microsoft to prevent piracy.