Windows 10: Migrate the OS to a USB drive and use it for a boot device

Hello,

I've got an Dell Inspiron 3000 series laptop. It has a 32 gb SSD drive and that's it. It doesn't have the capability to expand/add a hard drive. I bought initially just to do light Office work on the road and didn't think the drive size would be an issue since I would be using the cloud for storage. Then came the updates to the OS. It's almost unusable now. I wanted to migrate the OS to a larger thumb drive or external drive and boot the OS from there. Is that possible and if so, how do I do it?


Dell Inspiron model 14-3452

32GB SSD

2GB RAM

OS - Windows 10 Home


Thanks,


RBC

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