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moiraface

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I'm having a very hard time trying to save a system image of windows 7 to my flash drive. It's being recognized in the system, has plenty of room, and even formated correctly.

Can i just create a system image on a partition on my internal hdd and move it to a usb drive?
 
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nukemaster

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You may be running into some issues if the drive is Formatted in FAT32. FAT32 can not take any file over 4gigabytes in size. If your imaging software can split up the image file into parts that will work OR you can try to format the flash drive as exFAT as it does not have this limit.

Just note older OSes may not be able to see exFAT volumes.

NTFS is also an option.
 
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nukemaster

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Strange. USB drives should work fine for this kind of thing.

The only concern with imaging to another drive then copying would be if you had trouble when it came time to restore the image from the flash drive.

You may be able to try something like EaseUS todo backup free. I have only tried it to restore images from another system so you may need to see how this works for you. They have a bootable option, but it does not seem to be free.
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/home/download.htm
 
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