Does a bootable USB drive require Fat32?

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_{Friday, March 2, 2018 9:19 PM}

Same? Does USB drive require Fat32 to be bootable?

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_{Friday, March 2, 2018 10:23 PM}

Hi iGFX_Digital.

Yes, you have to select FAT32 file system to make a USB drive bootable, particularly if the system you want to boot supports Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI).
FAT32 is bootable when you creating a USB support to start/recovery Windows, NFTS cannot be used to do that.

Bye.

Luigi Bruno
MCP, MCTS, MOS, MTA

_{Monday, March 5, 2018 6:47 AM | 1 vote}

When you create a Windows recovery USB drive, it is automatically created as FAT32, because FAT32 is bootable, and NTFS is not. 

But the Windows image drive should be NTFS. Use NTFS because it removes some limitations that might cause problems, such as the 4GB file size limit that FAT32 has.

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