What Am I Doing Wrong?

[Vic]

Hi nheather.

Would you please let everyone know what third party software you used and any additional info you feel like sharing?
It might save someone a little time.

Vic

[rych]

A GPT partition table works also.

Has it ever worked for you? Never worked for me...

[Rava]

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Are you both use BIOS or UEFI to boot?

[rych]

Are you both use BIOS or UEFI to boot?

I use UEFI. Secure boot ON or OFF. But even in the old days when I used BIOS I couldn't boot with GPT partition table...

[Ed_P]

Has it ever worked for you? Never worked for me...

Uefi and porteus 3.0

[nanZor]

FAT32 support drives up to 2 terabytes and files to 4 GB.

Tip: While the above is true, if the windows formatter won't format super large drives to fat32, and forcing one to use exfat instead, the Rufus utility for windows will format in fat32 for super large drives. (Ie, instead of picking an iso, drop down to non-bootable and also change to fat32)

[Rava]

Tip: While the above is true, if the windows formatter won't format super large drives to fat32, and forcing one to use exfat instead, the Rufus utility for windows will format in fat32 for super large drives. (Ie, instead of picking an iso, drop down to non-bootable and also change to fat32)

The standard Linux way formatting a drive in FAT32 results support for in files up to 4 GB.

But you meant how to format such a drive in Windoze and not in Linux, I suppose.

[Otto]

Okay, in Windows it won't allow FAT32 to be selected when formatting a 64GB memory stick.

You suppose to use windows disk management to format your usb.

[Ed_P]

Okay, in Windows it won't allow FAT32 to be selected when formatting a 64GB memory stick.

You suppose to use windows disk management to format your usb.

These are the notes I use for doing it.

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## Run GParted to partition & format the USB drive with a msdos Partition table.  ##
##  Use GParted's View > Device Information to check Partition Table type.        ##
##  Use GParted's Device > Create Partition Table if Partition Table shows as GPT.##
## Or under Windows use:                                                          ##
## > diskpart          * Run Command Prompt with Admin Rights.                    ##
## > list disk                                                                    ##
## >....                                                                          ##
## > select disk 1     * Note: disk nbr is the nbr of the USB disk                ##
## > clean                                                                        ##
## > create partition primary                                                     ##
## > exit