Issue with Creating USB Bootable drive

Question

My USB is 256GB and I need to image a company computer with a image in .iso format. This iso is 26.7 GB in size.

I reformated the USB to exfat .

I downloaded the Microsoft Media Creation tool and created a bootable USB using the tool and this seems to have shrunck my USB to 31.9 GB in size and returned the File System to Fat32 . Now I cant seem to upload my image.iso file onto the USB

Can anyone Help ?

the Image.iso file is my companies gold build that I need to put on the Laptop

Thanks

Answer 1

Sure! I hope it works

Answer 2

Thankyou both, makes sense to me now

Many Thanks

Answer 3

Another option is to use a third-party tool to create the bootable drive that can format it on NTFS

Download Rufus in the link below, open it, select the drive, select your Windows installation ISO ( if you don't have an installation ISO you can download it using the Media Creation Tool), and on "File System" select NTFS

It will format the drive (and should fix the partition size issue) on NTFS which supports files with a larger size and you will be able to create a bootable drive and insert the ISO image on the same drive.

https://github.com/pbatard/rufus/releases/downl...

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Answer 4

Hi FreddyMango,

I'm Rodrigo and I will help you.

the Media Creation Tool will always format the drive to FAT32, this can't be changed. Since FAT32 has a file size limitation, you won't be able to put this image on this same drive.

You should use separate drives for this task, or install Windows using the drive, then, formatting it again to copy the .iso image.