# 1.) Installing Nextcloudpi

  
\- get the NCP Image here:

[https://ownyourbits.com/downloads/NextCloudPi\_RPi\_03-02-22/NextCloudPi\_RPi\_03-02-22.tar.bz2](https://ownyourbits.com/downloads/NextCloudPi_RPi_03-02-22/NextCloudPi_RPi_03-02-22.tar.bz2 "Donwload for Nextcloudpi image")

\- for Windows: donwload and install belanaEtcher

[https://www.balena.io/etcher/](https://www.balena.io/etcher/ "Download for belanaEtcher")

\- in settings: activate "Unsafe mode", so it also detects your hard drives

[![belana-etcher-settings.png](https://bookstack.borghoff.ddnss.de/uploads/images/gallery/2022-03/N3iQLMcYab5gNAix-belana-etcher-settings.png)](https://bookstack.borghoff.ddnss.de/uploads/images/gallery/2021-03/j2AA1MZLaHd6C9c5-screenshot-2021-03-06-111913.png)

\- now connect the SSD to your Raspberry

\- don't forget to connect the pi to your network (for this method i postulate a cable connetion)

\- let the pi boot up; this may take some minutes

For the next step i will redirect to the offical nextcloudpi guide until my own documentation will be ready

[https://docs.nextcloudpi.com/en/how-to-access-nextcloudpi/](https://docs.nextcloudpi.com/en/how-to-access-nextcloudpi/)

If your Raspberry will not boot from your SSD drive, maybe it still needs some files changed.

\- put back the SSD back into your computer

\- get the needed files for ssd boot from here:

[https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/archive/master.zip](https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/archive/master.zip)

\- extract the files somewhere on your computer

\- go into the boot folder inside the folder you just extracted

\- copy over all the files that end in .elf or .dat to the boot volume of your USB drive (replacing the same-named files that already exist there)

[![elf-dat-files.PNG](https://bookstack.borghoff.ddnss.de/uploads/images/gallery/2021-04/scaled-1680-/p8BXrVqIErZ3UZxg-elf-dat-files.PNG)](https://bookstack.borghoff.ddnss.de/uploads/images/gallery/2021-04/p8BXrVqIErZ3UZxg-elf-dat-files.PNG)

\- now connect the SSD to your Raspberry

\- don't forget to connect the pi to your network (for this method i postulate a cable connetion)

\- let the pi boot up; this may take some minutes

For the next step i will redirect to the offical nextcloudpi guide until my own documentation will be ready

[https://docs.nextcloudpi.com/en/how-to-access-nextcloudpi/](https://docs.nextcloudpi.com/en/how-to-access-nextcloudpi/)