![]() ![]() I imagine this is because of the huge files on a FAT32 device causing slowdown, since the media tool compresses quite a bit due to using ESD. I'm going to try Rufus and make it NTFS and try again too because one downside of the media creation tool is that although I can boot to USB it is now really slow to load the Windows Setup screen, like 30 seconds, where it used to take 2 seconds. It wasn't until I used the media creation tool to format the drive (it chooses FAT32 and you can't change that) and then I was able to boot to USB. I had already tried using the Windows built-in disk management, I tried command line diskpart and format stuff, I tried GUI formatting the drives, I even reformatted the drives on a Chromebook too, along with trying all 3 options (NTFS, FAT32, exFAT), quick and full formats, and none of that would work. The annoying part of all this is that none of the standard options available could fix the drives. I do recall seeing the "You can't eject this drive because it's in use still" message a few times over the months, which of course didn't make any sense at the times because I wasn't accessing the drives and I always safely remove them through the Windows interface too, so this is clearly a bug in Windows that causes it to not release files that are no longer in use. I'm trying the Rufus tool and also downloading W10 ISO again, and even the media creation tool, gonna try everything clean and original, reformatting USB drives fully, etcetera. I don't plan on building a new PC until after I have an optimized Windows image. My motherboard is 10 years old though, so I'm using legacy mode because it bugs out otherwise. ![]() I assume the alignment/MBR/Etcetera gets corrupted sometimes, maybe on a botched reboot or something while the USB drive is still plugged in. Some people got it working by changing USB slots, and some people fixed it by reformatting, and some fix it by changing BIOS settings to legacy instead of UEFI. Googling last night reveals that this is a pretty common issue. Allegedly ExFat has some minor performance advantage too, but I didn't test that. Luckily you can create your own up to date Windows 10 ISO files when. Load all downloaded Windows 10 Hotfixes / Patches / Security Updates. dat files, search indexer, and any other NTFS overhead attached to the files. NTLite: Open and load Windows 10 ISO data files 5 5. I used exFAT because the WIM file is too big for FAT32, and ExFat has some minor benefits over NTFS, such as eliminating the "blocked" files (savezoneinformation) which is an NTFS feature, and I didn't want the hidden.
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