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As your 960 M.2 disk is GPT, you must create a Win 7 installation UEFI disk. It must be FAT32.
So my suggestion is to start over and add the MVMe drivers only to Boot.wim and to Install.wim (only to Win 7 HP). The size should be less than 4 G.
Hi Megahertz07,
If you use UEFI:NTFS and temporarily disable Secure Boot work?
I know that exFAT can handle files larger than 4GB.
Will converting an install.wim to an install.esd using Dism work?
Rufus is normally good at doing this sort of thing! I wonder if any of the settings are wrong!
The USB stick I am using is 16 GB.
I was already only putting a copy of the NVMe driver (the Samsung_NVM_Express_Driver_3.0.exe file) into the drivers/Bootx64 and drivers/Installx64 folders of the working folder for SIW2's tool.
So, if I am understanding correctly, from your earlier post, the change this time will be in the last step. In SIW2's post, step 5, I should choose whatever number corresponds to Win 7 HP (2, for me), instead of *.
Hi, Paul.
So, that makes it seem as though there isn't that much of a size difference between the all-versions approach and the just-Win-HP approach. If the latter doesn't bring the file install.wim below 2 GB (it was over 4 GB last time) then re-doing this process will not result in a system that can be put on a Fat32 drive.
I am not sure where to go from that point. Might I be doing something odd that is making that file huge? Is there a way to tell SIW2's tool to split that file up or something?
SIW2's tool just completed the just-Win7-HP run and sources/install.wim is once again over 4 GB (it is 4,453,697,747 bytes). Obviously, that is not going on a normal FAT 32 USB stick.
It seems like either there is some way to boot from an NTFS USB stick, or some way to create a much smaller source/install.wim file.
Just added the MVMe drivers to boot.wim (index 1 and 2) and to Install.wim (index 2 = HP)
The total size is 3.03G