Once you entered your BIOS, you need to find the option to change the boot order. Else, you might need to look it up either in the manual of your computer on online. Your computer might even tell you which key to press. Which key to press depends on the brand of your computer.
When the splash screen of your computer’s manufacturer appears, you need to press either F1, F2, F12, ESC or DEL on your keyboard to enter the BIOS menu of your computer. Now it is time to plug in the flashed USB drive and restart your computer.
Patience and also backup your data elsewhere. An empty external hard drive (HDD, SATA SSD, M.2 NVMe SSD etc.). A brief tutorial is available- Create a bootable USB stick on Windows Ubuntu. A bootable USB pen drive with Ubuntu 20.04 installation media(or any other version).You can create this from your Windows computer by Rufus. These are the steps I went through for creating a truly portable drive- Requirements Most of what follows is roughly aligned with Anthony’s post. I went across a various articles and I found Anthony Bouch’s post here- How to Create a Truly Portable Ubuntu Installation on an External Drive which was brilliant and pretty much helped in achieving the goal. But the problem that arises is whether this qualifies as a plug-n-play drive, for which the answer is definitely a NO, you simply cannot boot your external drive into another laptop with no GRUB bootloader installed.
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