boot from a Thunderbolt drive

[andreas54]

I would like to know if my is able to boot from an external thunderbolt drive and how.

Thank you in advance for your help

Andreas54

[praveenbv]

Hi@andreas54,

Thanks for engaging in the HP support community! This is a wonderful location to converse with the community, get assistance and find tips!

Let me know if you need any other assistance and I'd be happy to help 🙂 

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[andreas54]

Hi Praveenbv,

I guess that you forgot to give me the answer to my question:

Is my laptop able to boot from a Thunderbolt drive? How?

Thank you for your answer.

Regards

Andrea Scopelliti

[VH2000]

It's so easy to find it out! Download the "Media Creation Tool" from MS and check if you can use the disk as Boot-Device.

But that does not mean that you can run an operating system on that disk. (WIN2GO)

[praveenbv]

@andreas54,

HP Consumer PCs - Using the HP Cloud Recovery Tool (Windows 10) Link 

[andreas54]

Hi all,

after a while I found the time to do some testing. I followed WH2000 suggestion to create a bootable windows 11 instalation disk. Despite the windows media creator recognizes the thunderbolt drive and installs the installation files, then, at next boot, the thunderbolt drive is not recognized as a bootable drive. Of course I have no problem to boot from an usb drive from the same ports.

is there way to boot from thunderbolt? As far as I know almost all the laptops with thunderbolt ports are able to boot from them.

[VH2000]

In some laptops it has to be enabled in the BIOS-Options first.

[andreas54]

Thank you for your answer.

I already read about the necessity to enable thunderbolt boot from bios, but there is no such option in my pc. I even tried to enable Legacy boot mode, as somebody stated it was necessary to boot from thunderbolt, but no chance.

Any idea?

[Dilip_18]

Hi@andreas54,

Welcome to the HP Support Community! I'd like to help!

I see you would like to know if your HP Spectre is able to boot from an external thunderbolt drive. 

Theoretically, this should work, Check the Thunderbolt section of the BIOS setup and make sure all of the boot-related options are enabled.  In that case, as long as the SSD is connected at boot, if you boot from your Windows 10 installation media, it should see the SSD just like it would see an internal SSD, and although Windows can't boot from external USB drives, since Thunderbolt is just an extension of PCIe, it should work.

Hope this helps! Keep me posted. 

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