The story continues ..... On my HP Laptop, I dual booted Win7 and Mageia
6 but the Win7 installation died (Why didn't I just continue using the
Linux installation and just update that??) but I had previously
purchased this HP desktop (with 236MB SSD) with Win11 installed.

So I'm trying to install MageiaLinux 9, which I had previously
downloaded on the the (broken) HP Laptop.

A couple of months ago (late Feb), when I brought this up in the Thread "Installing MGA9 on new computer" and David W. Hodgins suggested I
should use the 'dd; command ....

"dd if=/path/to/iso/file.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=1M"

So I (finally, i.e. one shouldn't rush into things) booted the Laptop
tonight to copy the file to a 8GB USB Drive (the Desktop computer
doesn't have a DVD drive.) and I've failed miserably .....

root@localhost daniel]# dd if=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso
of=/sdf bs=1M
dd: failed to open '/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso': No such file
or directory

then, thinking 'Home' might be superfluous, ....

[root@localhost daniel]# dd if=/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso of=/sdf bs=1M
dd: failed to open '/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso': No such file or
directory

or did I need a space after the 'if=' ....

[root@localhost daniel]# dd if= /Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso
of=/sdf bs=1M
dd: unrecognized operand ‘/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso’
Try 'dd --help' for more information.

or ... maybe I need a lower case m i.e. bs_1m ....

[root@localhost daniel]# dd if=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso
of=/sdf bs=1m
dd: invalid number: ‘1m’

or ...

[root@localhost daniel]# dd if=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso
of=/sdf bs=1M
dd: failed to open '/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso': No such file
or directory
[root@localhost daniel]#

So, all in all, a waste!! In David's original commandline, he had
"of=/dev/sdx bs=1M" so have I stuffed up my interpreting that to mean "of=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso"?? I know there IS a 'Home'
directory in my Path. Is that wrong??

Any other suggestions??

(And, by-the-by, on the old Laptop, some where along the line, I've
closed the DVD drive WITH a MGA9 DVD in it!!)
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On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:50:12 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
<snip>

So, all in all, a waste!! In David's original commandline, he had "of=/dev/sdx bs=1M" so have I stuffed up my interpreting that to mean "of=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso"?? I know there IS a 'Home'
directory in my Path. Is that wrong??

Any other suggestions??

/Home is not the same as /home. Linux file and directory names are case sensetive.

"su -"
<enter root's passord>
"dd if=/home/daniel/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=1M"

Replace /dev/sdf with the correct device for the flash drive. Make sure you get this correct.
The dd command must be run as root as it's writing to a block device, not to a file system
within a block device. If you get it wrong, some other block device such as your hard drive
will be overwritten. You can check the output of the dmesg command right after you plug
in the flash drive. Each line will start with the time since boot. 7 or 8 lines from the end of
the output there will be a line that ends with text similar to ...
"sd 2:0:0:0: [sdf] 31272544 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)"

The device within the square brackets, sdf in the above, is the device to include in the
of=/dev/sd? parameter.

Replace /home/daniel with the correct directory within /home.

The dd command may end early with the command prompt showing up before the dd command
has actually finished. I have not determined why this may or may not happen.

To be sure the dd command has finished, use the htop command (install the package htop first
if you haven't already got it installed).

Run htop. Press f6 to get the list of columns you can sort by listed along the left side of the
output. Press the cursor up or down key until the word STATE is highlighted, and then press
the enter key.

Under the column labeled S (short for state), see if there are any processes showing with
a state of D (short for Device wait).

If there are any processes showing a state of D (device wait), keep waiting. You want to
wait until there have been several seconds at least without any process stuck in a device
wait, to be sure the dd command has actually finished.

Just fyi. The sync command doesn't help make the system wait until the dd command has
finished. The sync command waits until all file system writes are finished. The dd command
is writing a block device, not to a file within a file system so the sync command does not wait
for the dd command to finish.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 5/06/2025 1:57 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Wed, 04 Jun 2025 08:50:12 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote: <snip>

So, all in all, a waste!! In David's original commandline, he had
"of=/dev/sdx bs=1M" so have I stuffed up my interpreting that to
mean "of=/Home/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso"?? I know there IS a
'Home' directory in my Path. Is that wrong??

Any other suggestions??

/Home is not the same as /home. Linux file and directory names are
case sensetive.

"su -" <enter root's passord> "dd if=/home/daniel/Downloads/Mageia-9-x86_64.iso of=/dev/sdf bs=1M"

Replace /dev/sdf with the correct device for the flash drive. Make
sure you get this correct. The dd command must be run as root as it's
writing to a block device, not to a file system within a block
device. If you get it wrong, some other block device such as your
hard drive will be overwritten. You can check the output of the dmesg
command right after you plug in the flash drive. Each line will start
with the time since boot. 7 or 8 lines from the end of the output
there will be a line that ends with text similar to ... "sd 2:0:0:0:
[sdf] 31272544 512-byte logical blocks: (16.0 GB/14.9 GiB)"

The device within the square brackets, sdf in the above, is the
device to include in the of=/dev/sd? parameter.

Replace /home/daniel with the correct directory within /home.

The dd command may end early with the command prompt showing up
before the dd command has actually finished. I have not determined
why this may or may not happen.

To be sure the dd command has finished, use the htop command (install
the package htop first if you haven't already got it installed).

Run htop. Press f6 to get the list of columns you can sort by listed
along the left side of the output. Press the cursor up or down key
until the word STATE is highlighted, and then press the enter key.

Under the column labeled S (short for state), see if there are any
processes showing with a state of D (short for Device wait).

If there are any processes showing a state of D (device wait), keep
waiting. You want to wait until there have been several seconds at
least without any process stuck in a device wait, to be sure the dd
command has actually finished.

Just fyi. The sync command doesn't help make the system wait until
the dd command has finished. The sync command waits until all file
system writes are finished. The dd command is writing a block device,
not to a file within a file system so the sync command does not wait
for the dd command to finish.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick
MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to
get the .iso onto the USB.

Thank you.
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On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick
MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to
get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten when the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On 6/06/2025 11:57 pm, TJ wrote:

On 2025-06-06 05:50, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/06/2025 10:51 am, red floyd wrote:

On 6/5/2025 9:15 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-
september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick >>>>> MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to >>>>> get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten
when the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the
usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

If OP has access to a Windows box, he could also use Rufus to transfer
the ISO to the flash drive.

.... but I've got the .iso file on my old (slowly failing) Laptop so I
want to write it to the USB Drive then plug the USB Drive into my
(currently) Win11 only Desktop Computer and make the Desktop Computer
Dual Booting!

Then how about trying this, if you don't trust your laptop:

Copy the iso file, as a file, from the laptop to a USB drive. Make sure
the copy was indeed finished (safely remove), then remove the USB drive
from the laptop, and copy, again as a file, from the USB drive to the Windows 11 desktop. Then use Win11 to "burn" the iso to a USB drive to
be used afterward for installing Mageia 9 wherever you want to install it.

Alternatively, you could download another copy of the iso directly to
your Win11 desktop from Mageia's website. If the laptop can't be
trusted, that might be the smarter move.

TJ

Sorry, TJ, I thought I had responded to this post yesterday .... but
nothing is showing up.

In that (imaginary) post, I was going to state that I had already d/l'ed
the MGA .iso file onto my Laptop's HD so it was just a case of 'burning'
the .iso file onto a 8GB USB Drive but .......

When, this afternoon, I tried to boot the Laptop, I booted into the
System and checked the HD .... and that FAILED .... TWICE.

So I thought I'd head down to the Council Library and use their Win11 Computers to download the .iso file onto the USB Drive. I doubt I'd be
able "burn" the .iso onto the USB Drive but at least I should be able to
copy it to the USB Drive, bring that home, copy the .iso onto MY SDD
then 'Burn' it to the USB Drive .... if that's necessary.
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On 8/06/2025 7:13 pm, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/06/2025 11:57 pm, TJ wrote:

On 2025-06-06 05:50, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/06/2025 10:51 am, red floyd wrote:

On 6/5/2025 9:15 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-
september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to
stick
MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to >>>>>> get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten >>>>> when the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on
the usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

If OP has access to a Windows box, he could also use Rufus to transfer >>>> the ISO to the flash drive.

.... but I've got the .iso file on my old (slowly failing) Laptop so
I want to write it to the USB Drive then plug the USB Drive into my
(currently) Win11 only Desktop Computer and make the Desktop Computer
Dual Booting!

Then how about trying this, if you don't trust your laptop:

Copy the iso file, as a file, from the laptop to a USB drive. Make
sure the copy was indeed finished (safely remove), then remove the USB
drive from the laptop, and copy, again as a file, from the USB drive
to the Windows 11 desktop. Then use Win11 to "burn" the iso to a USB
drive to be used afterward for installing Mageia 9 wherever you want
to install it.

Alternatively, you could download another copy of the iso directly to
your Win11 desktop from Mageia's website. If the laptop can't be
trusted, that might be the smarter move.

TJ

Sorry, TJ, I thought I had responded to this post yesterday .... but
nothing is showing up.

In that (imaginary) post, I was going to state that I had already d/l'ed
the MGA .iso file onto my Laptop's HD so it was just a case of 'burning'
the .iso file onto a 8GB USB Drive but .......

When, this afternoon, I tried to boot the Laptop, I booted into the
System and checked the HD .... and that FAILED .... TWICE.

So I thought I'd head down to the Council Library and use their Win11 Computers to download the .iso file onto the USB Drive. I doubt I'd be
able "burn" the .iso onto the USB Drive but at least I should be able to copy it to the USB Drive, bring that home, copy the .iso onto MY SDD
then 'Burn' it to the USB Drive .... if that's necessary.

..... and tomorrow is a Public Holiday (King's Birthday) so I'll have to
wait till Tuesday!! ;-(
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On 4/6/25 22:50, Daniel70 wrote:


Not sure if it has been raised

My approach has been to download the ISO
and use Isodumper to creat a bootable install on a USB stick

It has never failed
isodumper is in the repository

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On 9/06/2025 10:15 am, faeychild wrote:

On 4/6/25 22:50, Daniel70 wrote:

Not sure if it has been raised

My  approach has been to download the ISO
and use Isodumper to creat a bootable install on a USB stick

It has never failed
isodumper is in the repository

Isodumper has been mentioned before, faeychild, but I'm trying to keep
things simple and as I've never used Isodumper before, that would be
something extra to Master!!

"Keep it simple, stupid!!"
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On 9/6/25 17:58, Daniel70 wrote:

Isodumper has been mentioned before, faeychild, but I'm trying to keep things simple and as I've never used Isodumper before, that would be something extra to Master!!

Yes! Always the problem
I find DD far more daunting although isodumper probably uses it

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faeychild wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

Isodumper has been mentioned before, faeychild, but I'm trying to keep
things simple and as I've never used Isodumper before, that would be
something extra to Master!!

Yes! Always the problem
I find DD far more daunting although isodumper probably uses it

I'm not sure, but somewhere along the way I seem to recall using the Win
USB maker Rufus (which has both 'hybrid' and dd modes) and I think I
recall it 'complaining' that the Mageia 'hybrid' was unconventional or
some such. I suppose I shouldn't allude to such a 'report'(or fuzzy recollection) if I haven't confirmed that it is so.

Rufus is a nice tool.

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On 10/06/2025 9:19 am, Mike Easter wrote:

faeychild wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

Isodumper has been mentioned before, faeychild, but I'm trying to
keep things simple and as I've never used Isodumper before, that
would be something extra to Master!!

Yes! Always the problem
I find DD far more daunting although isodumper probably uses it

I'm not sure, but somewhere along the way I seem to recall using the Win
USB maker Rufus (which has both 'hybrid' and dd modes) and I think I
recall it 'complaining' that the Mageia 'hybrid' was unconventional or
some such.  I suppose I shouldn't allude to such a 'report'(or fuzzy recollection) if I haven't confirmed that it is so.

Rufus is a nice tool.

My process continues .....

After work today I went to the Local Council Library to use their
connection to D/L the .iso file then copy it from their Win11 Computer
to my 7+GB USB Drive. The D/L worked but the copying was going to take
over an hour .... and the Library was closing in Five Minutes.

Then paid a visit to one of my Sisters to make use of Her Bigger D/L allowance. The D/L went O.K., but then her system was telling me it
couldn't fit the 4.2GB File onto the 7+GB USB ... which still had about
7.1GB available.

My process continues ..... maybe if I go down to the Library EARLIER
tomorrow. ;-)

(Just D/L'ed Rufus!)
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Mike Easter wrote:

I'm not sure, but somewhere along the way I seem to recall using the Win
USB maker Rufus (which has both 'hybrid' and dd modes) and I think I
recall it 'complaining' that the Mageia 'hybrid' was unconventional or
some such.  I suppose I shouldn't allude to such a 'report'(or fuzzy recollection) if I haven't confirmed that it is so.

This is from an older v of Rufus logs which is able to run under Win7:

ISO label: 'Mageia-9-Live-Plasma-x86_64'
Size: 3.8 GB (Projected)
Note: File on disk is larger than reported ISO size by 4.3 MB...
Note: DD image mode enforced since this ISOHybrid is not ISO mode compatible. Using image: Mageia-9-Live-Plasma-x86_64.iso (3.8 GB)

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On 6/5/2025 9:15 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal- september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick
MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to
get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten when
the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

If OP has access to a Windows box, he could also use Rufus to transfer
the ISO to the flash drive.


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On 6/06/2025 2:15 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-september.org> wrote: <snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to
stick MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm
trying to get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten
when the iso image is copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the
usb drive. It replaces anything on the drive, and contains it's own
file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Ah!! You've seen the devilishness of my plan ..... to have advice that I might/WILL need on the USB Drive then, when I've booted the old Laptop,
open that file in LibreOffice/Kwrite/Whatever so I can 'remind' myself
what to do .... before I copt the .iso file to the USB Drive,
overwriting any files on THAT drive.

Gee Whiz!! Next thing you'll expect me to actually REMEMBER things!! ;-P

Thank you, David.
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On 6/06/2025 10:51 am, red floyd wrote:

On 6/5/2025 9:15 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-
september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick
MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to
get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten
when the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the
usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

If OP has access to a Windows box, he could also use Rufus to transfer
the ISO to the flash drive.

..... but I've got the .iso file on my old (slowly failing) Laptop so I
want to write it to the USB Drive then plug the USB Drive into my
(currently) Win11 only Desktop Computer and make the Desktop Computer
Dual Booting!
--
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On 2025-06-06 05:50, Daniel70 wrote:

On 6/06/2025 10:51 am, red floyd wrote:

On 6/5/2025 9:15 AM, David W. Hodgins wrote:

On Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:51:20 -0400, Daniel70 <daniel47@eternal-
september.org> wrote:
<snip>

Thank you, David. I've copied this to the USB Drive I'm going to stick >>>> MGA_9 on so I can re-familiarise myself tomorrow whilst I'm trying to
get the .iso onto the USB.

Don't forget. Anything already on the usb drive will be overwritten
when the iso image is
copied onto the usb drive.

The iso image does not get written as a file in a file system on the
usb drive. It replaces anything
on the drive, and contains it's own file systems.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

If OP has access to a Windows box, he could also use Rufus to transfer
the ISO to the flash drive.

.... but I've got the .iso file on my old (slowly failing) Laptop so I
want to write it to the USB Drive then plug the USB Drive into my (currently) Win11 only Desktop Computer and make the Desktop Computer
Dual Booting!

Then how about trying this, if you don't trust your laptop:

Copy the iso file, as a file, from the laptop to a USB drive. Make sure
the copy was indeed finished (safely remove), then remove the USB drive
from the laptop, and copy, again as a file, from the USB drive to the
Windows 11 desktop. Then use Win11 to "burn" the iso to a USB drive to
be used afterward for installing Mageia 9 wherever you want to install it.

Alternatively, you could download another copy of the iso directly to
your Win11 desktop from Mageia's website. If the laptop can't be
trusted, that might be the smarter move.

TJ

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On 10/6/25 19:55, Daniel70 wrote:

Then paid a visit to one of my Sisters to make use of Her Bigger D/L allowance. The D/L went O.K., but then her system was telling me it
couldn't fit the 4.2GB File onto the 7+GB USB ... which still had about 7.1GB available.

My process continues ..... maybe if I go down to the Library EARLIER tomorrow. ;-)

(Just D/L'ed Rufus!)

beware formatting

Old win file systems fat16 fat32 can't accept files grater than 4gig
you will have to format exFat and hope the library computer has it installed

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Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64

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Mike Easter wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

How would I format it exFat from Win11??

The Rufus we spoke of earlier has excellent USB formatting features,
incl exFat.

I found myself wanting to know more about the different formatting and
found a couple of good pages in the Mageia wiki.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Testing_storage_speed

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Storage_speed_test_results

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Testing_storage_speed#Comparison_of_a_few_filesystems

Comparison of a few filesystems

For more information consult Wikipedia file system list and comparison pages

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On 15/06/2025 5:35 am, Mike Easter wrote:

Mike Easter wrote:

Daniel70 wrote:

How would I format it exFat from Win11??

The Rufus we spoke of earlier has excellent USB formatting features,
incl exFat.

I found myself wanting to know more about the different formatting and
found a couple of good pages in the Mageia wiki.

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Testing_storage_speed

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Storage_speed_test_results

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Testing_storage_speed#Comparison_of_a_few_filesystems

Comparison of a few filesystems

For more information consult Wikipedia file system list and comparison
pages

Thank you, Mike.
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On 12/06/2025 8:24 am, faeychild wrote:

On 10/6/25 19:55, Daniel70 wrote:

Then paid a visit to one of my Sisters to make use of Her Bigger D/L
allowance. The D/L went O.K., but then her system was telling me it
couldn't fit the 4.2GB File onto the 7+GB USB ... which still had
about 7.1GB available.

My process continues ..... maybe if I go down to the Library EARLIER
tomorrow. ;-)

(Just D/L'ed Rufus!)

 beware formatting

Old win file systems fat16 fat32 can't accept files grater than 4gig
you will have to format exFat and hope the library computer has it
installed

Hmm! Thank you, Faeychild, I hadn't considered that at all.

I wonder if THAT might explain my current situation ..... When I look at
the USB Drives Properties, it shows there is something over 7 GB (yes,
Seven GigaBytes) of Free Space but, when I try to copy a 4.2GB file to
it, the system tells me it has insufficient space available.

How would I format it exFat from Win11??
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Daniel70

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Daniel70 wrote:

I wonder if THAT might explain my current situation ..... When I look at
the USB Drives Properties, it shows there is something over 7 GB (yes,
Seven GigaBytes) of Free Space but, when I try to copy a 4.2GB file to
it, the system tells me it has insufficient space available.

How would I format it exFat from Win11??

The Rufus we spoke of earlier has excellent USB formatting features,
incl exFat.


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Mike Easter

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