Windows 10: Why does Windows USB boot disk require Fat32 when Fat32 has a 4 GB limit, and Windows ISO...

As per the subject. My daughter's windows is completely messed up. cannot be used anymore, none of the troubleshooting tools work, I need to do a clean install.From what I've been able to find I am supposed to format an USB disk as Fat32, did that, download ISO bootloader did that, try to copy it on to USB disk oops no can do. FAT32 has size limit of 4GB what should I do?

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Installing windows off of a USB stick

Step By Step from vista:
From admin cmd prompt

1. diskpart
1a. list disk
2. select disk 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1 (replace 1 with your usb drive)
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

Copy Windows Vista's DVD ROM content to the Flash Drive

xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (d being your vista cd and e being your usb stick)

And that's it, boot off your usb disk

 

Windows Disk FAT32 or NTFS

Want to reinstall my windows and dont know how to format it NTFS or FAT32 which one is better for OS, and what are the dffrences btwen them ? *Confused

 

Converting or formatting a USB flash drive to fat32

Windows limits FAT32 individual files to 4 GB.

Windows limits FAT32 partitions to 32 GB.

If you need a flash drive to be fat32 and with a partition greater than 32 GB then there are options with third party software.

This is a Windows command line method:

Connect the flash drive to a Windows computer.

Open administrative command prompt and type or copy and paste:

diskpart

lis dis

lis vol

sel dis 0

det dis

sel dis 1

det dis

sel dis 2

det dis

sel dis 3

det dis

(Identify the disk number for the flash drive.)

(make sure that you identify the flash drive as the clean command will erase everything on the chosen disk #)

sel dis # (replace # with the number of the flash drive)

clean

cre par pri

format fs=fat32 quick

active

assign

exit