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Depends on what tasks you want Diskmanagement to perform, Diskpart is much, much more powerful. Yet, yes you can set a partition to active and you can of course format to FAT32. It's a GUI interface but it's pretty basic.1. Out of curiosity can you perform exactly the same task using Disk Management instead of Diskpart? Using the Disk Management interface would be easier if it can be done I would have thought.
Yep. Rufus should do what you want it to do not what it thinks is best for you though. I feel no need for it but then your mileage may vary as they say.Because Id used Rufus in the past on this flash drive I had to convert the flash drive back over to MBR from GPT which I did using Diskpart. If I don't use Rufus again though that should never happen again and my flash drives will always remain in factory state which I believe is always MBR.
Because you're running a UEFI system, that's why.But it also shows the Disk Management method and Ive noticed that the Convert to MBR option it shows in that tutorial isn't available on my Windows 10 PC and ive got the latest Fall Creators Update
Your aim is to create set up media. The ISO file contains those files required to launch Windows set up or to boot off of it.While I was researching using Diskpart on the internet to create bootable Windows installation media..several sites mentioned an additional step of copying over bootsector files to the Flash drive as well. Is that something that doesn't apply to Windows 10?
That's all you need for the moment.
I'll give you an example that may help understand how it works: I have a USB key that I can use to boot any PC, bios or UEFI alike running Windows 10.
It just contains a couple of files, is FAT32 and the single partition is set to "Active". Insert it, select it as a boot drive and it will load the W10 OS on that machine. Regardless of whether it's MBR or GPT and if it's even bootable at all.
That USB drive will boot it and load W10 off the system drive inside the machine. If you want a system to be usable only to the holder of that USB key, that's one way to make it safe. There are at least a dozen others but that's beyond the scope of your quest.
The beauty of W10 IMHO is that it does not require much computer knowledge to get it going as opposed to say twenty years ago.
Cheers,