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USB Flash Drive....Fat32 or NTFS ?
Trying to re-install W10 on one of the older laptops, running latest version of W10, from a USB Flash Drive, but it won't recognise it......should the flash drive be Fat32 or NTFS ?..........
USB Flash Drive....Fat32 or NTFS ?
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The universal flash drive for Windows 10/11 installation is MBR with a FAT32 partition marked as active.
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Converting is pretty quick FREE Convert NTFS to FAT32 without Losing Data - AOMEI NTFS to FAT32 Converter
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Well.....Two identical laptops, BOTH with same settings......Flash Drive will work on one, but not the other........just tried it with another flash drive and same result......on the one I'm trying to update they won't show up on start up......what can I do ?........
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Well, tried everything I can think of......driver is up to date, USB drive works on TWO other laptops, settings are exactly the same on all machines.......created installation media again......still no joy........is there ANYTHING else I can do ?....
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The only time I've ever seen this problem is when a non-bootable flash drive was in another port, that once removed, the bootable one showed up as as it always had before in the boot menu. Another thing I've seen mentioned here is if the drive is in a USB 3.0 port, try a USB 2.0 port and vise versa.
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And a thing about FAT32 in Windows is it has a partition size limit of 32GB and a single-file size limit of 4GB. USB Thumb drives usually come factory-formatted as FAT32, my 128GB are and Windows can use them but can't reformat them at full size so I clean and format in Linux.
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The laptop has thee USB ports, and the flash drive won't work in any of them.......it does however work on TWO other laptops.....I am fast running out of options I think.......
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