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Before you start, I KNOW that there SHOULD be an option after you choose external USB and after choosing the language to choose specifically WHICH usb I want to install on. HOWEVER it keeps saying "not enough space on C drive" and THAT IS NOT THE DRIVE I WANT. I want to be able to choose the brand new USB 32GB that I just bought because I built a PC and am hoping to create a bootable USB. Please don't tell me to just choose the USB because that is not coming up as an option.
EDIT: I'm a silly goose and just needed more computer storage. Thanks for the help!
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Answer accepted by question author
Hello, I'm A&K, here to help.
It is not that it does not allow you to use a USB flash drive to create an installation media, this is because this tool needs to cache the downloaded temporary files in the C drive when creating the installation media, so it needs to have enough space on your C drive. Please try to clean up your C drive.
Answer accepted by question author
Choose the USB :-D
Actually, if its not coming up then I'm thinking you have to format it as NTFS maybe? Windows is a bit weird that way.
If it shows up as a drive in File Explorer then I'm pretty sure formatting it to NTFS should work. Otherwise, something else is blocking it from being seen. Something I've not seen before. Maybe user permissions if its not an admin user. Something.
That makes sense. I feel silly now. Thank you!
Haha I realize it definitely comes across heated I was just so confused. Thank you!!
