In Windows 10, I tried to put a system image on my LEXAR 30GB USB thumb drive but Windows said I can't do that because the drive is not formatted in NTFS. So I formatted it in NTFS and now Windows says "not a valid drive."
Can anyone tell me what's happening?
Thanx. :)
Fat32 is limited to a maximum file size of 4GB. NTFS or exFat do not have this restriction.
To sort usb stick, do this
Run these commands from an admin command prompt
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (n=disk number of usb stick - usually last in list)
clean (WARNIING wipes drive - be certain you selected right disk)
create partition primary
select partition 1
format fs=ntfs quick
assign
exit
exit
USB stick will be fine now assuming stick is not faulty.
I formatted the stick to NTFS and the same thing happened. Maybe there's not enough room for a sys image on that stick? It's 30GB. I'm able to drag other files onto the stick with no problem.
Its limited yo what you can put in the root make a folder and try saving to that
I just checked my System Image and to do it the process says it requires an HDD with more than 175GB free space. My boot drive is 250GB. So I'd say Yes to the question, the LEXAR drive in question is not large enough. I'd call it a rule-of-thumb to use a device with at least the same capacity of the boot/system drive [usually C:].
Well then I'll just use my 1TB external drive for the sys image... I'll also backup my files on that drive. And I'll use the extra space on the thumb drive if I ever run out of room on the 1TB. Thanx for your help. :)
I just created a Recovery Drive for one of my computers, it prompted for a drive with at least 8GB free space so I used a Verbatim USB Thumb/Flash drive of 16GB. The first try failed after formatting and prompted to check for errors, ran the error-checking then tried again and it worked, took awhile. I figured the first try that failed was because I had the drive in a USB 3.0 port, changed to a USB 2.0 port for the second try which also will be used for the booting to the Thumb drive.
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