Windows 10: USB 3 32GB flashdrive with Windows 10 21H1 update in ESD format. Can I save this to a...

I want to keep a copy as my old laptop was not accepting cumulative updates and it took many hours and contacts with Microsoft to get the ESD; I understand that it can be cloned to another Flash drive but this may take a long time to ascertain as internet searches seem fairly hopeless nowdays with large amounts of info. on irrelevant topics which include some of the words in the search. To make it clear; the ESD/ISO has been used and worked; I just want to store a copy for possible future re-sets.

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Can Windows be installed from a 32GB USB flashdrive?

Can Windows be installed from a 32GB USB flashdrive?

 

Can't format USB 32GB drive in NTFS format

Having read several threads of how to Format a USB drive into NTFS format.

I have 32GB stick and tried several methods to do this without success.

Tried

• changing the properties of the 'policy' of the drive in device manager
• changing to 'default allocation unit size' in formatting
• changing from 'quick format'
• running as Admin with CMD Prompt and with ('drive letter': /fs:ntfs) this says cannot format a raw drive ??

Yet no problems in formatting as Fat32.

Any other tips

 

Formatting a flashdrive

Windows 10, My flashdrive taken out of my X-box 360 won't format. It keeps on saying, "Windows was unable to complete the format." with no additional information. I can look at what is on it and on one of the FAQ
sites it says, "This appears as a private folder named “Xbox 360” on the USB flash drive." -https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive faq#386366905c3f4219b1561399e085d120 but that folder doesn't exist on my flashdrive. I was trying
to format it to FAT32 (Default) but it doesn't work. the capacity on it is 7.61 GB and the accolation unit size is 4096 bytes. I tried it on NTFS also but again it didn't work. All of my attemtpts have been on Quick Format. Can anyone help me get it working?