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Note 1: NTFS file system is required for USB disk.

Before, many friends made Win10 installation USB disk, which would be formatted as FAT32 file system. Generally speaking, this is indeed a reasonable approach, FAT32 compatibility is good, it can be recognized by almost all operating systems, and it can also be booted by BIOS recognition of various motherboards. However, this is out of place in Win10 2004.

The "install.wim" file in the Win10 2004 installation image is larger than 4G and cannot be placed on a flash drive in FAT32 format.

After the image of Win10 2004 is decompressed, the "install.wim" file in it is larger than 4G and cannot be placed on FAT32's USB disk (FAT32 cannot hold a single file larger than 4G). Therefore, you need to format the USB disk as a NTFS file system before you can make an installation USB disk for Win10 2004.

Note 2: U disk use FAT32? Special operation is required

However, many friends do not like to format flash drives as NTFS. After all, NTFS is not compatible enough in non-Windows systems such as macOS, and some BIOS/UEFI cannot start NTFS USB drives. U disk must use FAT32 to install Win10 2004, you need to split the file install.wim, which is larger than 4G.

Split the "intall.wim" file with the command line

Run CMD with administrator privileges, assuming that the location of install.wim is in the "sources" directory of the virtual optical drive G disk. If you want to divide the file into two parts and place it on disk D, the specific command is:

Dism / Split-Image / ImageFile: "G:\ sources\ install.wim" / SWMFile:D:\ install.swm / FileSize:4000

Then the split generated two files to replace the original sources directory is the "install.wim" file, you can put on the U disk. The files extracted from other Win10 2004 images are also placed on the USB disk and can be installed normally.

Note 3: pay attention to UEFI matching

Many friends have found that the installation of Win10 USB disk is very simple, as long as the image of Win10 is decompressed and the files are copied to the USB disk, the installation of Win10 USB disk is completed. The reason why it is so convenient is that the installation file of Win10 contains the UEFI boot program. If the motherboard also has good support for UEFI boot, setting the startup mode of the motherboard to UEFI, you can successfully boot the Win10 to install the U disk.

However, there are also matters worth noting here.

For example, not all motherboards have UEFI mode. Some motherboards are only loaded with traditional BIOS, so the Win10 2004 USB flash drive needs to be made with other tools. For example, using Rufus, which is a good system installation USB disk production tool, supports all kinds of system images to write to USB disk to make installation disk. Using the Win10 installation USB disk made by Rufus, you can boot even using traditional BIOS. Rufus is a free and open source tool. Friends in need can click on the link below to enter its GitHub open source page.

Rufus: https://github.com/pbatard/rufus

Rufus is a very conscientious installation of USB disk production software.

In addition, if you install a flash drive using the NTFS format, the UEFI of some motherboards may not be recognized-the UEFI boot area of some motherboards does not support NTFS, only the FAT USB drive. You can use the above method to split the file and make the installation U disk of FAT32.

The above is all the contents of the article "how to make a Windows 10 installation USB disk". Thank you for reading! I believe we all have a certain understanding, hope to share the content to help you, if you want to learn more knowledge, welcome to follow the industry information channel!

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