It would be helpful to others if you would further explain how you got the USB to format to Fat32 so easily. Rufus or one of the other utilities just seems easier.ĭhagerjohns, I don't know how you have your PC setup or what OS, your operating on. This forum is for helping people, people more often than not that have very little computer skills. It's one program, and it has worked for thousands of people, time and time again. I'm going to stick with recommending Rufus to make a bootable USB drive utilizing whatever flavor OS you might need. I changed the boot order in BIOS, I tried to boot the USB's through Win 10 boot menu. I copied these mounted ISO's to the root of the USB drive and tried to boot each one.

Then I mounted several ISO's, I tried WIn 7, I tried XP, I tried Linux Mint. Or, you can use Minitool Partition Wizard and skip all the powershell copy paste. Format-Volume -DriveLetter E -FileSystem FAT32 -NewFileSystemLabel USB New-Partition -DiskNumber 1 -UseMaximumSize -IsActive -DriveLetter EĤ.

Clear-Disk -Number 1 -RemoveData (this will erase all data on selected drive)ģ. SO, I had to fire up Powershell and try to format the usb to Fat32,Ģ. Simply right clicking the USB drive only nets you 2 choices, NTFS and exFAT. This did not work for me.įor starters, I had to jump through a few hoops to get Win 10 to format the 128GB USB to Fat32. I have been booting from USB for years, utilizing many different OS's. Moved from W10 Spt to W10 Discussion - Hamluis. This is actually probably known by everyone who is more experienced than me with computers but during those few hours it took me to find this out, a lot of that was on google and I didn't see anything like this.Īnyways, if anyone ever stumbles scross this searching on google like I hoped to find, I hope this helps you all and thanksĮdited by hamluis, 19 October 2019 - 01:27 PM. Even the webpage for rufus does not advertise this. Using the rufus usb tool, you can actually use the iso file and it will create a bootable usb even if it's less than 8gb like the official microsoft tool requires, so long as it's atleast 4gb, or rather 3.73gb in total. The latest version as of december 2017 is 3.4gb.

I downloaded the media creation tool for windows 10 and whipped out my trusty ole 4gb usb stick.Īpparently it now requires 8gb to download and its 3am, i dont have a usb higher than that and I need my computer working by tomorrow morning.Īfter a few hours of fumbling around, I opted to download the windows iso instead using the media tool. Hello all and sorry if posting this in the wrong place but recently I've needed to reinstall my windows 10 圆4.

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