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Really trying to set myself up for disaster recovery by creating a bootable USB installation drive. I downloaded the media creation tool which should be all I need. I first tried it on an NTFS formatted 256GB USB drive. That failed with this error. Googling told me it had to be FAT32 formatted, which isn't an option, the best I could manage was exFAT so I tried that. Same error. So I found a 32GB USB drive which I was able to format to FAT32. Tried that, same error. Each time it tries it feels the need to download Windows again - that's efficient. It's an Acer laptop with Windows 11 Home and > 40GB of free space on drive C (it told me it needed 8GB). It seems really busy working away and then just fails without knowing why it failed. That shouldn't be possible with well written software - you always should capture why you failed. You learn that on day 2 of coding class.
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As an alternative, download the Windows 11 ISO and use Rufus to create the bootable USB disk.
Download Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO) for x64 devices
https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows11
Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way:
Thanks, that worked a treat.
I think that's the only thing Media Creation Tool can do.
The media creation tool should be able to format the drive for you. As it mentions, anything else on the drive will be removed.
The error means what is shown below, maybe that will make sense to you.
ERROR_DIRECTORY
267 (0x10B)
The directory name is invalid.
Hi , dd992.
I am Ivan, I will help you with this.
You just want to create windows11 installation media?
Independent Advisor - Community
Thanks
