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Windows 7 professional system image backup to USB thumb drive?
Hello everyone, I'm hoping someone can help me with problems I'm having with my Windows 7 Professional installation. It crashed the other day and luckily I was able to use the install disc to fix the problem, I have questions on that I'll put in another post. For now I'm hoping you can all tell me if it's possible to use a USB flash drive to write a Windows 7 professional system image backup on to? I did a couple of Google searches and from what I've read its possible as long as the USB flash drive is formatted as NTFS. Does that sound right to you all? Until recently, I had been doing my backups to a USB external hard drive but just noticed , when I tried to use the drive for a backup, the system said the drive cannot be used as it's not recognized. The same drive is listed in Windows Explorer and seems to be working fine though. Anyway, when I was in the "set up backup" window which had all my drives listed in the window labeled "save backup on:" there was a message on the bottom of the page saying "this drive does not have enough space to store a system image" and when I click "more information " another window popped up saying I need 224.61 GB free space to store a system image.
Can this be a USB flash drive as long as it has enough capacity? And be formatted to NTFS? Any suggestions on Brands to use or to avoid? Amazon has plenty of 1 TB USB flash drives for around $30 but I'm not sure if I would trust them, brands I've never heard of. I was considering the SanDisk 512GB Ultra Flair USB 3.0 Flash Drive - SDCZ73-512G-G46 which goes for around $48. Anyway, thanks in advance for any info you all can provide!.
Dan G.