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It seems that existing guides of how to boot from USB are out of date, and the one here (https://learn.adafruit.com/external-drive-as-raspberry-pi-root/hooking-up-the-drive-and-copying-slash) didn't work, as it didn't alter the root, though it copied all my files to the SDD.

I don't want to mess up any important files, as I don't know much about them. Is there any up-to-date tutorial for a beginner?

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The Raspbberry Pi 3B+ has improved boot capabilities. It can boot from any USB drive out of the box. Just flash an Raspbian Image to the USB storage like you do it with a SD Card. Put it into one USB port on the RasPi and boot. The only thing is that there must not be a SD Card in its slot. The RasPi will always first boot from it if it find one.

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