It is possible with an NTFS drive, but ThinkPad UEFI BIOS isn’t NTFS-aware. To recap, simply mounting the ISO with Windows Explorer or an archiving tool like 7zip and extracting the contents to a FAT32 flash drive won’t work. My take in detail … perhaps too much detail… USB install media with WIM file larger than 4GBĬreate bootable USB installer if install.wim is greater than 4GB Full credit and kudos to the sites and people linked below: I’ve just come across another way to tackle this that allows creating FAT32 + NTFS media with the multi-version ISO, and may also be handy if using a custom install.wim file. The ISO produced by the MS media creation tool (so far) produces an install.esd file that will fit, but may not always be the desired option. The multi-version ISO has an install.wim file too large for FAT32, so just dropping its contents on a FAT32 flash drive as I usually do won’t work. Some UEFI machines – ThinkPads for instance – will only boot FAT32 USB install media. The MS download site is offering the Windows 11 ISO to all visitors – not just non-windows hosts as it did with ’10 – and others may trip over this. As I indicated in previous whinge post, the size of the install.wim file in Windows install ISOs can present some problems when creating USB flash install media: Windows 10 USB Install Media … or MS BS This came up again when I wanted to try a pure clean install of Windows 11 on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 4.
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