Is this possible? Bitcoin Core full wallet on a portable drive

[bbOOmm]

I have a couple spare portable USB 500GB hard drives, I thought of using one for a COLD STORAGE BITCOIN WALLET. You know, toss a few BTC in there and let it sit unplugged till ~~whenever~~. Kind of an emergency use only.  Plug it in every so often to update the chain, otherwise it sits unplugged.

The thing is, I have many PCs, and I'm constantly changing out equipment and sometimes I use public computers - IE: Library....

So my requirement are ...

A Full Bitcoin Core wallet (NOT A LITE VERSION)
Must be able to go from PC to PC without having to install any software onto the PC I'm using.

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I'm kind of thinking along the lines of making the portable drive bootable with Ubuntu, installing the Bitcoin Core and going from there.

The only problem I foresee is going from different hardware to different hardware.... the installed drivers and whatnot to make Ubuntu work. Computer A is hardware different from computer B, Computer C is different from A and B... who knows what the computer hardware is at the library etc. I can set it up to run on Computer A, but I don't think it would work on computer B or C? Not to mention going to the library PCs or even going from an Intel platform to an AMD platform? Etc.

Any help on this would be nice

Thanks

[khalized]

mmm create a new OS in the portable drive?
like linux usb? There you store your bitcoin core...
Could be a solution....
Or you can go with some Icloud account and take in the same time sw in pc/mobile....

[achow101]

With current computers, it doesn't matter what the hardware is, pretty much any os will work. You won't have the greatest experience without the proper drivers, but you would still be able to boot from the USB device and be able to use it.

You can also install Bitcoin Core onto that drive and use it as a portable application. Since most computers you encounter will be running windows, you can just download the windows zip and extract the program. Just run bitcoin-qt.exe from the USB drive on whatever computer you want and it will run Bitcoin Core. You will need to create a shortcut or batch file to run the program and also set the data directory to the data directory on the USB drive. Otherwise it will start downloading the blockchain onto the computer you are using and that is not wanted.