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I have a Lenovo IdeaPad Z50-75 laptop with Windows 10 on a 256GB SSD, Lenovo A4CN40WW (v.2.09) UEFI BIOS, AMD A10-7300 Radeon R6 processor, and a Broadcom 802.11 network adapter.

Is it possible to install Ubuntu 16.04 on an external SATA USB HDD including the bootloader?

karel
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  • [Looks like it can be done](http://askubuntu.com/questions/446682/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-portable-external-hard-drive), as long as your bios has an option to boot from a USB HD. – lainglo May 16 '16 at 21:04
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    Does this answer your question? [How to install Ubuntu on portable external Hard Drive?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/446682/how-to-install-ubuntu-on-portable-external-hard-drive) – karel Jan 13 '20 at 23:36

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Yes. You can. And I've done it before. However the OS will then run generally very slow. So what I recommend (and what I tend to do) is learn how to swap the hard drive out easily and I bring screwdriver with me. I have a Lenovo laptop and my laptop bag has SSDs and a screwdriver. I find that I can do a swap in 15 minutes but it's worth it if you don't need to swap the OS that often.

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