USB stick here but not here

50Twuncle

I am trying to create a back up of my Win 10 installation on my laptop - the 16Gb USB stick is there (according to Windows explorer) - but not, according to the MS utility - what can I do to get the stick recognised ?

bsod

is it big enough

50Twuncle

Of course it is
It needs less than 4Gb

bsod

of course I am a mind reader

NiftyDigits

50Twuncle wrote: »

Of course it is
It needs less than 4Gb

I think it unlikely that an installation of Windows 10 needs less than 4GB.
Perhaps you write of the downloaded image.

Tropez

I apologise if this sounds like one of those "Well of course I've tried that!" things, but have you tried it in a different USB port?

Also what type is it? There are some issues with SanDisk Cruzer flash drives that are installed in such a way that Windows recognises them in the same it way it recognises hard drives and not a removable USB flash drive thus it won't allow you to select it for the Media Creation Tool.

If that is the case you may need to use a utility like Diskpart to format the drive to FAT32.

50Twuncle

Tropez wrote: »

I apologise if this sounds like one of those "Well of course I've tried that!" things, but have you tried it in a different USB port?

Also what type is it? There are some issues with SanDisk Cruzer flash drives that are installed in such a way that Windows recognises them in the same it way it recognises hard drives and not a removable USB flash drive thus it won't allow you to select it for the Media Creation Tool.

If that is the case you may need to use a utility like Diskpart to format the drive to FAT32.

Good point - I have formatted it as NTFS
It is a Sandisk one

50Twuncle

OK I have reformatted the USB drive as FAT32 and it still fails to recognise it - in ANY USB socket - giving message "We can't find USB Flash drive".
Which is strange - since it is there in Windows explorer !!
Any more suggestions for a fix ?

NiftyDigits

Refer to post #5?

To which utility do you refer?

NiftyDigits

Perhaps you should look here

50Twuncle

NiftyDigits wrote: »

I think it unlikely that an installation of Windows 10 needs less than 4GB.
Perhaps you write of the downloaded image.

3.82Gb ISO image