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Janis

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    Windows 10 will not let me save a file to a USB
    « on: January 05, 2021, 02:46:31 PM »
    I wanted to run ERUNT and then save the back up to a USB drive.   Even finding the USB drive on screen was difficult.  No more nice WIN 7 layout of all drives!!!   When I tell Erunt to save the backup registry all I get is an error message.  How do i accomplish this  or is it not possible?

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    Re: Windows 10 will not let me save a file to a USB
    « Reply #1 on: January 05, 2021, 04:15:38 PM »
    I have my Win 10 configured to run like Windows 7. First you need to see if you transfer an ordinary file or picture to your USB stick. If that works , save your Erunt file to your computer and then send it to your USB drive.
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      Re: Windows 10 will not let me save a file to a USB
      « Reply #2 on: January 31, 2021, 06:50:11 AM »
      Speaking of Windows 10 having issues with USB sticks, I have a problem, too. I've recently bought a 32gb USB stick and tried to put a 5gb movie on it. To no avail. Every time I try, I get an error message saying that the file is too big. I checked, there are actually 30+ free gigabytes on the stick. I've tried to put 5, 10, 20 gb's worth of other files on that stick, and it works. Still, I can't copy that one movie there. What should I do?

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      Re: Windows 10 will not let me save a file to a USB
      « Reply #3 on: February 01, 2021, 12:12:41 PM »
      If the Drive is formatted as Fat32 the largest file you can save is 4 GB. You need to format it in NTFS if you need to save single files larger than 4GB to the pen drive.
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