I formatted a 16 GB USB Stick today so I could boot from it and that works great. The problem I have is it won't let me copy a 7GB Ghost image over to USB, it says there isn't enough space. When I look Windows shows there is 14GB available. Can anyone give me some insight into this issue?
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You probably have formatted the USB stick to FAT32 filesystem which does not support filesizes in excess of 4GB. Try reformatting it as NTFS.
answered Jun 1, 2010 at 20:04
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Ah. I sure did. I am not sure if NTFS will work but I will give it a shot.– NathanJun 1, 2010 at 20:36
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So apparently NTFS is not a bootable format. Do you know of any ways around this issue?– NathanJun 1, 2010 at 21:34
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@Nathan NTFS is a bootable format. The image probably doeesn't have the correct boot records. Unfortunately I haven't tried what you're trying to do, perhaps these links would help? : tomshardware.com/forum/… forum.notebookreview.com/… You probably want to create 2 partitions, 1 small (FAT/32)to carry the boot records, and the other larger to store the ghost image.– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Jun 1, 2010 at 22:05
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Basically what I am trying to do is make a bootable USB stick which contains the Norton Ghost boot software and then move the image onto the same USB stick so I can boot and image from the same device. Does this help at all?– NathanJun 2, 2010 at 0:42
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@Nathan yes, that's what you should try to do. If all goes well, it should work swell– Sathyajith Bhat ♦Jun 2, 2010 at 0:53
While using NTFS instead of FAT32 may work, you can also get it to work with FAT32. You have to split the large image file (install.wim) into pieces of 4 GB. You can do it with the following command (where D: contains your mounted .ISO file and E: is your USB stick):
DISM /Split-Image /ImageFile:D:\sources\install.wim /SWMFile:E:\sources\install.swm /FileSize:4096
You can read more about the creation of a Windows boot stick in my answer here.
answered Feb 19, 2021 at 12:04
