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Can I run mint Linux from an external drive?
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Yep, sure will. Works just like an internal hard drive, albeit potentially a little slower depending on USB. The last time I ran that configuration, I was still using USB 2.0. A good USB 3.0 drive would probably run just about as fast as an internal SATA drive (5 Gbps for USB3 vs 6 for SATA III).
Just be careful when you get to the disk partitioning portion of the installer and make sure you don't make any changes to your internal drive. If you want to be overly cautious, you can disconnect the internal drive while you're doing the Mint install and reconnect it afterward.
You may need to update your BIOS's boot order so you don't have to select the external drive every time since your Windows bootloader won't be aware of the Linux install on the external drive (which is where your GRUB would be installed).
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Just spotted the last bit about the boot order. Very good thought.
Stupid question here: let’s say I plug in the external drive, install Linux mint, grub would get installed onto the external drive, set the bios to boot from the external drive, boot into Linux.
Now at some point I shut the computer unplug the external drive, boot the computer back up …
Now I’m assuming the computer would boot back into windows because the Linux drive would be disconnected.
Correct?
Correct. It would look for the bootloader on each drive that it's configured to boot from (in order of preference).