Windows 10: Rufus kills my USB drives when using MBR partitioning for old computers.

Discus and support Rufus kills my USB drives when using MBR partitioning for old computers. in Windows 10 Ask Insider to solve the problem; Hi, my previous USB was dead after using it to burn a Windows image using Rufus and I thought it was natural so I bought another one. But to my... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Ask Insider' started by /u/ameri9595, Feb 27, 2021.

  1. Rufus kills my USB drives when using MBR partitioning for old computers.


    Hi, my previous USB was dead after using it to burn a Windows image using Rufus and I thought it was natural so I bought another one.



    But to my surprise this one died to as soon as I finished burning Windows in MBR partion scheme.

    What am I even doing wrong here? How do I recover my USBs? The computer plays a sound when I plug them but they never show up in My PC, they only show up in Disk Management but trying to format them there does nothing.

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    /u/ameri9595, Feb 27, 2021
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  2. sinlog Win User

    Partitions created by rufus

    I downloaded the windows 10 install iso and I used rufus to copy it to a usb stick. I then installed the OS. Four partitions were created in my hard drive. I can also see that rufus created its own partition uefi_ntfs in the usb stick.

    How can I get rid of the partitions added by rufus in the hard drive and in the usb stick ? I don't need them, for years I have booted in uefi without rufus' help. I feel invaded.
     
    sinlog, Feb 27, 2021
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  3. Saltgrass Win User
    Partitions created by rufus

    The extra partition you mention of UEFI-NTFS is what Rufus uses to fool a UEFI system into booting from something other than a FAT 32 partition on the USB drive.
     
    Saltgrass, Feb 27, 2021
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  4. W1zzard Win User

    Rufus kills my USB drives when using MBR partitioning for old computers.

    W7 Hard drive partition issue

    to get rid of that 100 meg windows partition that setup creates for you on a new install on a blank hdd:

    - press shift+f10 when on the partition management screen in setup <-- this opens a command prompt
    - diskpart <-- start the windows command line partition management tool
    - list disk <--- list the installed hdds in this computer for the next step
    - select disk 0 <- might have to replace 0 with the number of the correct disk
    - clean <-- this will erase all data on the disk you selected one step up- dont use the wrong disk!
    - create partition primary <- creates a primary partition taking up all space on the drive, adjust the command if necessary
    - exit, exit to exit diskpart and the command prompt
    - click refresh in partition manager and select your newly created partition and install to that
     
    W1zzard, Feb 27, 2021
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