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UEFI:NTFS - Boot NTFS or exFAT partitions from UEFI
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I can't find step-by-step instructions on how to create a UEFI:NTFS USB stick #7

Closed SetTrend closed 8 years ago

SetTrend commented 8 years ago

I need to create a USB stick containing two partitions:

  1. FAT, containing NTFS drivers and boot code to launch autorun.inf on USB stick partition 2.
  2. NTFS, containing the contents for the current Windows 10 ISO file (or HP Windows 10 Recovery stick, containing a file bigger than 4GB).

How can I get this to work? I can't find instructions on how this is done with Rufus.

pbatard commented 8 years ago
  1. Select your Windows 10 ISO.
  2. Set "Partion scheme and target system type" to "GPT partition scheme for UEFI"
  3. Set "File system" to NTFS

That's it.

If that doesn't answer your question, feel free to reopen this issue.

SetTrend commented 8 years ago

@pbatard: Strange: Rufus only creates an NTFS, but not a FAT partition:

ntfs

Why isn't the FAT partition visible? According to the docs a small FAT partition should have been created.

pbatard commented 8 years ago
  1. Be mindful that the UEFI:NTFS partition is so small that Disc Management might not display it.
  2. Please provide the FULL LOG of how you created your drive. It will be very explicit from it whether the UEFI:NTFS partition was created. Just click on the Log button from Rufus.

Also, be mindful that, if your flash drive is of type removable (99% of flash drives out there), you will NEVER be able to access the FAT partition from Windows, because will only ever mount the first partition with a file system it can service from a removable drive (so, in this case, that would be the NTFS one), and won't let you access any other.