Placing a R-Drive file on FAT32 Usb Drive
I'm having a lot of problems regarding creating a USB Bootable Drive and copying a specific R-Drive file archive.
I've got a R-Drive file that contains windows 10 and a bunch of other software that make this file big as 10GB.
The idea is simple: boot from USB, then a GRUB or something like that appears, I select "text mode", after that "restore from image" and in a 5-10 minutes I have a customized Windows installed on PC.
Yes, it's a version from work, a person from over there made me 1 usb flash drive for this purpose, but it got erased by accident by me, and that person is unreachable for the moment.
I tried to archive it with WinRAR and split the file into multiple 2GB files.
Managed to copy all of them on the FAT32 stick.
After that, I clicked on the archive, decompressed on the stick, but it was with error, the file was too big (>4GB) to be placed on the stick, although the split-archive was already on the flash-drive.
I don't exactly know HOW to decompress a R-Drive image, tried with "Restore from image", but I couldn't select all the partitions (folders) from that archive.
So, I'm very stuck, if I want a bootable flash-drive, it has to be on Fat32 (what about exFAT???). But I cannot mount files larger than 4GB, and my file is 10GB.
I tried to find solutions here and on other places, I was running around in circles.
I can copy a rdr file on my stick ONLY if that stick is NTFS/exFAT. But both are NOT bootable (or so I saw when I selected "Create startup disk" from R-Drive, there was no flash-drive there, only if I formated to FAT32 will appear).
usb partitioning usb-flash-drive ntfs fat32
asked Dec 6 at 7:41
John
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I'm having a lot of problems regarding creating a USB Bootable Drive and copying a specific R-Drive file archive.
I've got a R-Drive file that contains windows 10 and a bunch of other software that make this file big as 10GB.
The idea is simple: boot from USB, then a GRUB or something like that appears, I select "text mode", after that "restore from image" and in a 5-10 minutes I have a customized Windows installed on PC.
Yes, it's a version from work, a person from over there made me 1 usb flash drive for this purpose, but it got erased by accident by me, and that person is unreachable for the moment.
I tried to archive it with WinRAR and split the file into multiple 2GB files.
Managed to copy all of them on the FAT32 stick.
After that, I clicked on the archive, decompressed on the stick, but it was with error, the file was too big (>4GB) to be placed on the stick, although the split-archive was already on the flash-drive.
I don't exactly know HOW to decompress a R-Drive image, tried with "Restore from image", but I couldn't select all the partitions (folders) from that archive.
So, I'm very stuck, if I want a bootable flash-drive, it has to be on Fat32 (what about exFAT???). But I cannot mount files larger than 4GB, and my file is 10GB.
I tried to find solutions here and on other places, I was running around in circles.
I can copy a rdr file on my stick ONLY if that stick is NTFS/exFAT. But both are NOT bootable (or so I saw when I selected "Create startup disk" from R-Drive, there was no flash-drive there, only if I formated to FAT32 will appear).
usb partitioning usb-flash-drive ntfs fat32
asked Dec 6 at 7:41
John
12
Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
Dec 6 at 9:34
add a comment |
I'm having a lot of problems regarding creating a USB Bootable Drive and copying a specific R-Drive file archive.
I've got a R-Drive file that contains windows 10 and a bunch of other software that make this file big as 10GB.
The idea is simple: boot from USB, then a GRUB or something like that appears, I select "text mode", after that "restore from image" and in a 5-10 minutes I have a customized Windows installed on PC.
Yes, it's a version from work, a person from over there made me 1 usb flash drive for this purpose, but it got erased by accident by me, and that person is unreachable for the moment.
I tried to archive it with WinRAR and split the file into multiple 2GB files.
Managed to copy all of them on the FAT32 stick.
After that, I clicked on the archive, decompressed on the stick, but it was with error, the file was too big (>4GB) to be placed on the stick, although the split-archive was already on the flash-drive.
I don't exactly know HOW to decompress a R-Drive image, tried with "Restore from image", but I couldn't select all the partitions (folders) from that archive.
So, I'm very stuck, if I want a bootable flash-drive, it has to be on Fat32 (what about exFAT???). But I cannot mount files larger than 4GB, and my file is 10GB.
I tried to find solutions here and on other places, I was running around in circles.
I can copy a rdr file on my stick ONLY if that stick is NTFS/exFAT. But both are NOT bootable (or so I saw when I selected "Create startup disk" from R-Drive, there was no flash-drive there, only if I formated to FAT32 will appear).
usb partitioning usb-flash-drive ntfs fat32
asked Dec 6 at 7:41
John
12
I'm having a lot of problems regarding creating a USB Bootable Drive and copying a specific R-Drive file archive.
I've got a R-Drive file that contains windows 10 and a bunch of other software that make this file big as 10GB.
The idea is simple: boot from USB, then a GRUB or something like that appears, I select "text mode", after that "restore from image" and in a 5-10 minutes I have a customized Windows installed on PC.
Yes, it's a version from work, a person from over there made me 1 usb flash drive for this purpose, but it got erased by accident by me, and that person is unreachable for the moment.
I tried to archive it with WinRAR and split the file into multiple 2GB files.
Managed to copy all of them on the FAT32 stick.
After that, I clicked on the archive, decompressed on the stick, but it was with error, the file was too big (>4GB) to be placed on the stick, although the split-archive was already on the flash-drive.
I don't exactly know HOW to decompress a R-Drive image, tried with "Restore from image", but I couldn't select all the partitions (folders) from that archive.
So, I'm very stuck, if I want a bootable flash-drive, it has to be on Fat32 (what about exFAT???). But I cannot mount files larger than 4GB, and my file is 10GB.
I tried to find solutions here and on other places, I was running around in circles.
I can copy a rdr file on my stick ONLY if that stick is NTFS/exFAT. But both are NOT bootable (or so I saw when I selected "Create startup disk" from R-Drive, there was no flash-drive there, only if I formated to FAT32 will appear).
usb partitioning usb-flash-drive ntfs fat32
usb partitioning usb-flash-drive ntfs fat32
asked Dec 6 at 7:41
John
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asked Dec 6 at 7:41
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asked Dec 6 at 7:41
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Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
Dec 6 at 9:34
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Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
Dec 6 at 9:34
Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
Dec 6 at 9:34
Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
Dec 6 at 9:34
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Is R-Drive like a raw disk image? You could probably do all of this with a live linux USB and dd images
– Xen2050
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